SOMETHING NEVER DONE BEFOLE

Chronicle (Levin), 31 January 1948, Page 5

SOMETHING NEVER DONE BEFOLE

Received Friday, 7.55 p.m. SYDNEY, Jan. 30. No time is being lostin appointing the expert committee to investigate the claims of Mr. John Braund concerning the treatment and cure of cancer. Mr. Braund has already nominated . four doctors who, with a similar number to be named by the British Medical Assooiation, will eompose

* the investigating committee. On© of Mr. Braund Js nominees, Dr. Henry Brose, has • no medical degree but is a woi'ld famous can-, cer researeh scientisf who was senior cancer researeh wor-ker at Sydney University for three years and physicist to the Cancer Researeh Committee. He .was also a' member of the Imperial Cancer Researeh Committee- in England and was professor of physics at Xottiugham University, The philanfropist, Mr. E;. J. Hallstrom, who yesterday ga*ve £20,000 to establish a cancer climie, •for Mr. Braund, said today that he was eonvinced of the efhcapy of Mr. Braund 's methocls. Soientists who have witnessed the- Braund treatment cxpressed themselves as being 'astounded and amazed at its success. Mr. David C. R. Moore, president of the Australiah Institute o.f Homoeopathy, said he had had mnch experience with cancer patients and that nothing like what Mr. Braund was doing had ever been done. 4 Father Dunlea, of the Boys' Town Charitable Institution in the suburb of Engadine, f'ounded to care for the welfare of boys, v-isited Mr. Braund today and renewed an offer to allow the Boys' Town Hospital to be converted into a cancer clinic. Mr. Braund and M-r. Hallstrom aceepted and the hospital will be turned into a clinic immediately. Mr. Braund, aged 79, has been figliting for nearly 50 years to have his treatment recognised. -The present developments are the outcome of a two months' canir paign by some Sydney newspapers to bring his methods before the public.