The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, JULY 31, 1911. A NEW DEVELOPMENT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 135, 31 July 1911, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER MONDAY, JULY 31, 1911. A NEW DEVELOPMENT.

What appears to bo a most extraordinary development of the treatment of disease by anti-toxins is now being tried in Melbourne. The patient, Mr W. H. Judkins, a well-known social reformer, is suffering from malignant cancer, for which no surgical treatment is possible, and Ids doctors therefore decided to adopt a course which the “Argus” assorts has never been tried in this part of the world before. .It was discovered not long ago by Continental doctors that if anybody suffering from cancer was a.lso attacked by erysipelas, the cancel-, as one doctor said, “molted away like snow before the morning sun.” The condition caused by accidental infection with erysipelas is now being produced by the injection of an antitoxin prepared from cultures of the erysipelas germ and another germ. Although the method is admittedly only in an experimental stage, a London practitioner has asserted that lie knows personally of fifty-two cases of its successful use, and by report of a hundred-others. This is the treatment which Mr Judkins’s doctors have adopted, and its trial will be watched with anxiety by other sufferers from fids fell disease.