The Cure for Cancar.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 121, 5 March 1872, Page 6

The Cure for Cancar.

Some months ago, the papers mentioned the discovery of a plant that was said to be a j specific for cancer. The statement was that an Indian woman of Ecuador, seeing her husband suffering fearfully from this terrible disease, gave him some of tho poisonous plant arn'lnranj) in order to put him out of his misery, and that instead of killing it cured him. The story got about, and the surgeons i of Ecuador determined to try the plant with their patients. They were so satisfied with the results that they published an account of the cure, which soon found its way into; the United States. A chest of the new remedy was sent to Washington by the ; American Minister at Ecuador, and Dr Bliss, \ 1 professor of pathology at Washington, pro-1 ceeded to make experiments with but faint, I hopes of finding them successful, but at j | the same time with the full determination i Ito make a fair trial. Ho chose cases for j which the knife offered no hope of cure, and i |he found they yielded to tho exhibition of j the Indian drug. One of his patients was j the mother of tho Vice-President Colfax, and her case turned out successfully. Dr Bliss j ! declares that c.nmlnmn'jo is a specific, not i only for cancer, but also for scrofula and, I tuberculosis. The remedy is given either in i ! tho form of a decoction of tho bark, or as a watery extract, and Dr Bliss and another! 1 surgeon, Dr Keen, having imported several i tons of the precious plant, have opened a | laboratory in New York, where the prepara- j I tions can be obtained. Cnwlnrango resem-1 jbles cascarilia, and belongs to the class of I J aromatic bitters. —Bnnj Free Press, Nov. 11. |