THE MATTEI CANCER CURE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3160, 24 September 1892, Page 5 (Supplement)

THE MATTEI CANCER CURE.

TeIuorAFHING on 11th August the London correspondent of the Age reports that the medical committee appointed to investigate the cancer cure claimed to have been discovered by Count Mattei has reported that is a complete failure. The Medical Journal says the investigation of the alleged cure furnishes an example of the credulity of the masses. The gentleman who is the inventor of the alleged remedy is an aged Italian Count, who lives in an ancient chateau iu the Apennines. A lengthy article was lately published concerning him in the Re»iewof Reviews from which it appears that he was willing to impart all kinds of information to the public concerning hia private life and benevolent intentions in the art of healing, but would neither admit the writer of the article to his laboratory, nor condescend to explain the nature of the medicines which ho applied for the purpose of aohieving h ; s alleged cancer cur 3. Something is said about granules and globules, from which it may be inferred that the specific is of a homeopathic character, and it is boldly stated that a certain Dr Kennedy of London, who was a party to the count's secret, had enred two ladies, whose names were mentioned, of cancer, after they had had been given up as incurable by other doctors of repute. The doubt was afterwards ventilated, however, as to whether these persons had actually ;been suffering from the supposed incurable diaeass, and

it is to be presumed that the investigation, the result of which has been telegraphed, ensued with the object of determining this query. The value of Count Mattei medicines was first prominantly discussed owing to a glowing testimonial as to their efficacy by Lady Paget, wife of the British ambassador at Vienna, who in a review article, gave the Count credit for having cured her husband of a very dangerous complaint. To Bhow tho importance of obtaining a cure for cancer which may be relied upon, it may be mentioned that a recent report of the officer in charge of the Loudon Cancer Hospital states that

30,000 persons dio in England of it every year, that the cu'ting remedy, which is tho only one relied upon, is often a failure, and that, as a rule, from the date of the first appearance of the disease patients do not live longer than from two to four years during all of which time they are iu great agony.