REMARKABLE CURES.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1953, 9 January 1914, Page 5

REMARKABLE CURES.

4 — CANCER GROWTHS WITHERED UP BY RADIUM. EMINENT TESTIMONY. By Tclcgraph-l'reEs AcEociatieiv-Cofiyrlcht (Hoc. January !), 0,5 n,m.) London, January ■?. Sir Thomas Harlow (L'hyskj-an Kxtraordinury to H.M. tin; kin)?} reports that twenty-four cases of can.:';'!', beyond surgical aid, committed to the Middlesex' Hospital from Juno Us September, Wl2, nil died, and sixty-eight cases were admitted during tliu sumo period of ISJIII, and treated with radium. Thirty-six of these died,. : mid tho remainder have .since been discharged, and able to attend io their daily duties. This success is nnpiveodented. There were one or two cases in whieh the disease snibscquoiitfy recurred-. Sir Thomas Barlow is hopeful that, • with a fuller knowledge of radium, oven [ recurrences will be prevented. If 1501) milligrammes of radium wens buried in . n ctuicc-nms tumour, it simply withered i up and disappeared. If a few cells wer'o [ loft and not killed, .afterwards, ,}his ; caused a recurrence. Time was required to substantiate beyond all pos* siblo doubt the remarkable rosults achieved, but there wii? . nevertheless •mr longer ■ any■ ■ donbt f as Uj tho immediate effect of tho s treatment. A matter of urgency was I the question of State Control of tho * sources of radium, in order to prevent 9 the ridiculous inflation of prices, which J had hpen artifiefclly cngincerec!. x Brussels, January 8. t Doctors Bouffart and Jacobs have 3 submitted io the Society for the study l of Gynaecology, the cases, of two wo- - won 'v.-hom ilu'V 'chiliii'to have definitely ■ onwl of cancer.of tin? womb by means: \ of radium. The value of the amount f applied iii bath esses was ;CHUJOO.