A CURE CLAIMED

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 11

A CURE CLAIMED

CLERGYMAN'S DISCOVERY

(Special to "The Evening Post")

AUCKLAND, This Day. Claiming to have discovered a medicine which has cured scores of cases of tuberculosis, an Auckland clergyman "as obtained the permission of Archbishop Avcrill to distribute the compound to sufferers anywhere at praetic»|ly no cost. The Rev. Edward Ward, vic:u- of the Church of the Ascension at lomt Chevalier, makes the claim. J-no medicine, he says, has effected so many cm - es dul .i ng the past threQ years fiat there caii be no question as to its efficaciousness, in the majority of cases. -It I were not thoroughly convinced I should maintain silence, for it would oc very wrong to raise tho hopes of suiterers wantonly, only to dash them lo the ground. My medicino has been «sed with great success, and is still uemg used extensively by a medical practitioner who is a member of the British Medical Association. • This doctor practises among the Maoris, many oi whom suffer from consumption of the lungs." Mr. Ward Said he did not propose to make profits, cither for himself or for his church, from the distribution of the medicine. However, he did not intend to disclose the recipe. For one thing it would be useless to a. lay person unskilled in dispensing. Mr. Ward is a qualified pharmaceutieist, and makes up the medicine himself. It is a compound of certain mineral salts used extensively by one school of the medical profession in Europe, and a herb that grows freely in Now Zealand, and which, while having no specific action on tubercle baccilus, has remarkable tonic properties. All tho ingredients are- easy to procure, and the medicine is harmless.

Mr. Ward says he would make the medicine free of charge if he could, but he finds ho must have to make a small charge to meet out-of-pocket expenses. "If I were to give the prescription away, I fear it. would bo commercialised, and I wish to avoid that."