Alleged Cancer Cure.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume IX, Issue 1199, 26 February 1902, Page 4

Alleged Cancer Cure.

Wonderfully Simple Discovery by a FrenchJPhysician.

Paris, February 20

At yesterday's meeting of the Academie do Medicine, Dr. Luoien le Roy made a communication that cancer is curable by the internal administration of arsenic and quinine employed simultaneously in therapeutic doses. To be precise, 1 believe (states Dr. le Roy) that I have cured in a few days a case of cancer on the lungs met with in a lady aged 07. The cure appears to mo have been obtained first by the employment during ten days of 50 centigrams per day of chloi'ohydrosulphato of quinine taken at meal-time, and secondly, at tho same time by the injection every day of five centigrams of cacodylate do soude. After studying this patient, after the examination of another case of cancer, developed on a tumor of the scalp, and after numerous cases observed by others of the possibility of the developement of cancer on tissues previously diseased (lupus, tuberculous cavities, etc.) I believe that if it he possible to inooulate animals with cancer, it is only possible by grafting and cultivating the living elements of cancer (from a man or an auimal on lupus, in the vicinity of the tumor, or in a soil predisposed to the diseaso. In order to prove experimentally my first assertion, I have commenced a series of experiments at the Veterinary College of Alford, with the assistance of Professor Gabriel, Petit, and Almy.” This communication was deposited under sealed cover with the Academy on November 25, 1901, but was only read yesterday. To-day I saw Dr. le Roy, and askel him for some information concerning his remarkable discovery.

After some pressure ho said : —“ In a fortnight I shall make a second communication to the Academy, in which I intend to give a resume, of the cases I have cured and those which are undergoing cure.

There is no doubt that caneor is curable. I believe I have known the cause of cancer for more than a year, and I believe that the parasite of cancer, is very similar to that of the intermittent fever, the sovereign remedy for which is quinine and arsenic.

The treatment which I recommend is absolutely inoffensive, and will be welcomed by doctors and patients alike.