SCIENCE AND INVENTION

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIV, 25 March 1924, Page 8

SCIENCE AND INVENTION

SUCCESSFUL CANCER TREATMENT.

CKK CHESS ASSOCIATION —COPTBIGHT LONDON, March 23. The Medical vunsr ot rhe'* Cavan Boaru oi Health reports that a German doctor named Bilger, successtuhy treated in the Dublin Hospital, a cancer patient who was unable to swallow or speak. Dr. Pilger’, who employed the Lrhlangen treatment, was formerly assistant in a clinic to Dr. Erhlangen. The patient is making remarkaoie progress. The “Daily News” Medical correspondent explains that the Erhlangen treatment consists of powerful X-rays focussed on the affected part from -four or five directions. By this means, the organ receives a large dose ot rays also the skin, which is more sensitive to the rays than internal organs, is not burned. Growths in the head, thorax or limbs can be rayed almost with impunity, but the lining of the membrane of the alimentary canal is liable to injury if the current is strong when raying the abdomen. The Erhlangen treatment has _ not displaced curgical treatment of cancer in England, but it is used in cases too advanced for operation, also tor subsequent treatment of operated cases.