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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 November 1913, Page 4

New Cancer "Cure." £ MESOTHOIU. CM TREATMENT All (Jermany (says tlie Munich correspondent of the Tftnes) is obsessed with the idea of procuring niesothorium to be used as a panacea for cancel". It is staled lo liave I lie power of emanating rays similar 10. but much more effective, lhan radium, and the cost seems lo be almost as "Teat. The substance is derived I'rom ihe thorium waste iu the manufacture of gas mantles, and it is used iu liny portions enclosed "within a silver covering', in which extremely small holes are pierced. Tlie salver box is then piaced upon the part aftected with cancerous growth, and is said slowly, but ellectively, to remove traces of the disease. There is hardly a town of miportance in the country which has j not voted a large sum from the ' public funds for the purpose of purchasing some of the costly material, and where public funds are not forthcoming", concerts, bazaars, and such like means are adopted for raising the money for the same purpose. Medical men to whom I have spoken seem to i'a\our the movement for procuring mesothoriuin, but I have not been fortunate enough to meet a medical man who has actuallytried it Surgeons, 011 the other hand, arc not unanimous in their opinions. A leading surgeon informed mo that so far as he could .judge the new product may have beneficial effects iri many cases, just as radium is also beneficial, but he could find no proof that it is an actual panacea, and, in fact, lie is rather sceptical about tlie claims made for it; this view is also taken by one or two leading practitioners in the north. The surgeon referred to one case of gastro-rancer where the niesothorium box, to which a tord was attached, was lowered into the stomach : the patient bit through the cord and swallowed it, and was at once operated upon for the purpose of recovering the valuable box. My informant stated that one might conceivably Be a little prejudiced by reading the report, of this case," but thougtiT that it wold bo as well io reserve a final opinion on the merits oFlhc remedy until there was more data to go upon instead of at. once deciding iir its favoiu*, as appears to have been done by all laymen and most; medical men. gSHawßcgiMWgmßaH&a "GATHER THE ROSE, BUT lEAYE THE THORN!" lit other words, get Tonking's ; Linseed Emulsion, and banish that cold, sore throat, influenza, etc. Tonking's has proved its value over and over again. Why not try it ? 1/6, 2/0, 4/6 —Chemists and stores. In readiness for the jam-malc-ing season, housewives are making ready their preserve bottles, etc. Labels soon will be needed also. Whem they am neatly done they improve the appoarance of the preserves. Fifty £?umraed labels, well printed with the names of each fruit, jnay be obtained at The Chroniclo office for sixpence. If desired, the labels may be liad in I assorted or all of one jkind.— Ldvt,