TREATMENT OF CANCER
SUCCESS CLAIMED. LONDON, March 23. The medical officer of the Cavan Board of Health reports that a doctor named Pilger successfully treated in the Dublin Hospital a cancer patient who was unable to swallow or speak. Dr. Pilger, who employed the Erhlanger treatment, was formerly assistant in a clinic to Erhlanger. The patient is making remarkable progress. The correspondent of the Daily News explains that the Erhlanger treatment consists of powerful XRays focussed on the affected part from four or five directions. By this means the organ receives a large l dose of rays- As the skin, which is more sensitive to rays than ti e internal organs i s not burned, l growth in the head, thorax, or limbs can be rayed almost with impunity, but the lining membrane of the alimentary canal is liable to injury if the current is too strong when raying the abdomen. The Erhlanger treatment has not displaced surgical treatment of cancer in England, but is used in cases too advanc d for operation, also for subsequent treatment of cases operated upon.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18972, 25 March 1924, Page 5
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181TREATMENT OF CANCER Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 18972, 25 March 1924, Page 5
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