A Cure for Cancer.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 256, 4 May 1897, Page 3

A Cure for Cancer.

The rumour that a Rußsmn phy«cmn discovered a cure tor canoer h«» taken a definite form, and it is now stated that the remedy is fonnd in the ehehdomwm majus. which is known as greater celadine, or swallow, wort. It possesses a milky, eaflronsoolored juics, which ie used by peasant* for the destruction of warts. The fiwt time that Dr Deniienko drew attention to this cure he merely asserted that it could be employed with satisfactory results against the external growth* of cancer, jnst as the peasants used it against warts, and for removing ■pecks on the corses. Anew commnnis eation of his has just appeared, in which he further maintains that it can be taken internally with excellent effects. For this purpose, however, it must be specially prepared, as the juice in its natural ■tate contains two potent powona. Dr Demsenko describes seven cases of cancer which be has treated by means of swallow wort juice. Four of these were external cancerous growths upon which a surgical operation was, for various reasons, oat of the question. The photographs of the results which the physician has published together with the article, shows the effect of the chelidonium majut, which finally removed every trace of the cancer. The three other instances wer» of cancer in the stomach. Details of a scientific character, says the British Mechanic, will be awaited with some impatience, for if only a little of what has been stated is found to b« true it will be of imports ance, as cancer of the oesophagus, for inBtance, is believed to be incurable.