TREATMENT OF CANCER
THE ERHLANGEN METHOD. LONDON, March 23. The Medical Officer of the Cavan Board of Health reports that a German doctor named Pilger successfully treated in the Publin hospital a cancer patient who was unable to swallow or speak. Dr Pilger, who employed the Erhlangen treatment, was formerly an assistant to Dr Erhlangen. The patient is making remarKable progress. The Daily News's medical correspondent explains that the Erhlangen treatment consists of powerful X-rays focussed on the affected part from four or five directions. By this means the organ receives a large dose of rays, and the skin which is more sensitive to the rays than the internal organs is not burned. Growths in the head, thorax, and limbs can be rayed almost with impunity, but tho lining membra-ne or the alimentary canal Is liable to injury if the current is strong when raying the abdomen. The Erhlangen treatment has not displaced the surgical treatment of cancer in England, but it is used in cases which are too advanced for an operation, and also for the subsequent treatment of operated cases.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3655, 1 April 1924, Page 23
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182TREATMENT OF CANCER Otago Witness, Issue 3655, 1 April 1924, Page 23
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