THE MERCILESS QUACK.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 123, 17 July 1911, Page 7

THE MERCILESS QUACK.

What the skilled surgeon cannot do the quack will lightly undertake, ■ oays the Melbourne “Argus.”’ Helen tly- a man, who said ho was over eighty years of age, presented liirnjelf at the Melbourne, Hospital, and ibemed disappointed because none of the medical staff would pay him a ■ fabulous price, for what he described xs the marvel of the century—nothing less than a' certain cure for can•er. Last week he again visited the hospital with another old man, v 1 to had an arm in a sling. Dr Pipar examined the hand, and with difficulty repressed a cry of alarm. The .viisl and arm were black, and a .nalignant cancer had eaten deeply into the flesh. It appeared that the discoverer of the “marvellous” cure tad been experimenting on the paient, and had allowed the cancer to rrow unchecked. His treatment sec»u----,d to he the application ol vinegar ind caustic. Had the patient gone to the hospital, instead of perrniting the old man to humbug him, the cancer might have been tawed. Now he will suffer the loss of his xrm. ,