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AUCTION SALES. SHANNON STOCK SALE. J FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1910. ABRAHAM AND WILLIAMS, Ltd., will Sell as under, »t 1 p.m.- tl 28 forward ewes. A (i young rows. w i) forward cows. 2 cows, Juno and July ml vers. 2 fat cows. () 23 porkers, in lots, a 12 store pigs. 0 1 Shetland pony, unbroken. " 529-t. . > s IMPORTANT SALE OF FARM 1! LANDS. C di Sub-division of Mr G. Potts' well- '*,' known TA\. iIRRA ESTATE, \\ situated I miles from Levin and h '•) miles from Shannon. t A BRAH'AM AND WILLIAMS, t -*--*- LTD., in con j net ion with ' RAGGETT AND POTTS, of Wan- J ganui, will offer by Public A notion, v. at tho TOWN HALL, Levin, on t FRIDAY, 20th MAY, 1910, at 1 t p.m.— ? 1Q Farms in the above Estate, ° *J ranging in area, from j' fio acres to 293 acres. j, o This Estate is in four different n blocks, all close together. The d hind is of the very best quality, every section is will watered; aeon- t siderable area has been stumped and v ploughed, and practically the whole ' of the Estate is suitable for dairying. a Section 9, containing 293 acres, is c suitable for sheep farming only. \ Dairy farmers in this locality can • obtain handsome returns owing to ( the good price they can receive for 1 their milk in Wellington. The homestead section has a largo, well- , built, up-to-date gentleman's resi- , dence with tennis court, lawns, etc., | and is well planted, also all necos- < sary outbuildings. ' TERMS:- 10 per cent, on fall of . bammer, 10 per cent, on dalte of i possession (31 days), 10 per cent, in two years; balance o years from : date of possession fit /> per cent, pet annum. Tf substantial improvements are made to the satisfaction of the vendor, purchasers can avoid payment of the 10 per cent, in two years. For further particulars and plans (which give full details of each section) applv to ABRAHAM AND WILLTAMS, Ltd., or RAGGETT. AND POTTS, 535-16\ Wanganui. Reported Cancer Cure «— ~_ A recent cablegram stated that for the lirst time in Europe, ionic surgery, as practised by Dr Massey a.t the Oncological Hospital, Chicago, is being tried at the Cancer Hospital, London. My the ionic treatment, the cancer growth is electrically pierced with zinc needles coated I with mercury. The growth is thus • necrosed and surrounded by a steril- . ised zone. The ionic .treatment of cancer is not altogether a new tiling, but it js ! still very much in the experimental stage, and the the mere fact that it has been tried in a London hospital f does not prove that .it is a sneers [ A "New Zealand Times" report 3 ! had a talk with one or two Welling ton surgeons on the matter, ar.d what he was told was not incliiod to inspire a great deal ol enth .tuftsin for tho new treatment. In j the first place the doctors were in--3 cliued to be sceptical as to the source of tho information contained in the cablegram. They held to the idea, that it had not come from the best of sources—as from one of the . leading medical journals—but (that tho cablegram had been founded on an article in an ordinary paper on the look-out for a sensation. "To my mind," said one of them, "tb-are is just the suspicion of quackery about it, and I think tho message, ~ ■• to say the least of it, is premature." ~ There were thousands of persons in n the dominion, he Raid, afflicted with this awful disease, and the pub'ieition of the message was calculated to give them a false (hope. Everyone who knew them would be telling them for weeks of the new cure, with tho result that they would Oe inclined to put off having pro,")?;surgical treatment, with resints which might very well be disastro is. There is ji great deal still to be learnt about the process, and it will probably be a. good few years before it is properly understood or ftrmu established, if it ever will be. The effect of the treatment is to • cause necrosis, or the death of the growth, but this is only true so II far as the centre of the growth is ]j concerned, and there is nothing to prevent its spreading frowi the edges. In the treatment of cancer, one surgeon said, any local application must fail. Something more than that) is necessary for the complete eradication of the disease. At present, by the use of the knife, surgeons are •" able to cut out the body of the growth, but the great difficulty al- ' ways is to keep it from spreadhg beyond its former bounds. There is nothing so far to show that tl'e ionic does any more than (hold the disease in check for a. time. Various forms of electric surgery have been in use in the dominion for many years, and the electrolytic method, where two needles are placed in a growth and a high frequency „ spark passed between them, is weli known. The ionic method, however, re differs from this. At tho recent B> medical congress in Wellington a paper on the subject was read by Dr Arnold W. Izard, who returned from a visit to England a, few months ago. Dr Izard also gave a. practical demonstration of the treatment on a "subject." The idea is that certain dirugs are electrolytically dissociated by the galvanic current, "the irons having the power of penetrating the tissues to a, depth varying with the strength l of the current, resistance of tissues, and substance introduced." The process does not necessitate the introduction of needles into the growth. The electrodes are laid on the skin, and the current forces th'om through the skin_ and into the tissues. The process is applicable to several diseases, _ different dirugs being used according to the case under treatment. Summed up, it may he said that the cablegram is no news to •members of the profession in the Domin- " ion, nnd the announcement of its use in the Cancer Hospital leaves 1- them cold. It is safe to say that n it will bo some time, at any rate, before they are so convinced of its e merits to make general use of it. 8 As a mater of fact, some of them seem to believe that there is "no- £ thing in it." J The word "oncology" is derived from the Greek "onkus," meaning a mass, and means tilie science of or the aggregation of knowledge re- l lating to tumours.