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SYDNEY POLITICIAN OFFER DURING LIFETIME" CANCER PROBLEM ' (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Received July. 12, noon.) SYDNEY, July 12 The death is announced of Mr. Lionel Thomas Courtenay, who was one of three New South Wales Sertators elected at the last Federal elections, but who had not. actually been sworn in. He was prominent in city, municipal, and public life. He was ffii years of age. A resolve to aid those seeking the cause and cure of cancer - was made during his lifetime by Mr. Courtenay. When Mr. Courtenay was told that his illness was incurable,- he communicated with the Federal Minister of Health, Mr. W. M. Hughes, and offered to submit his body, either before or after death, to the medical profession to aid them in a study of the disease. Medical men agreed that there was no , avenue of prospective advancement of knowledge which could be explored by an experiment on Mr. Courtenay during his life, but the offer to experiment "after death has now, been accepted by the authorities.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18756, 12 July 1935, Page 5
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