VICTIM OF CANCER
DEATH OF SENATOR COURTENAY. * * BODY OFFERED FOR RESEARCH. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Sydney, July 12. The death of Senator Lionel Thomas Courtenay, who was one of the three New South Wales senators elected at the last Federal elections, but who had not ■been sworn in, occurred yesterday. He was prominent in Sydney’s municipal and public life. He was 56 years of age. A resolve to aid those seeking the cause and cure of cancer was made during his lifetime by Mr. Courtenay. When he 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 the 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 been accepted by the authorities.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1935, Page 5
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