THE CURE OF CANCER

Hokitika Guardian, 7 October 1924, Page 2

THE CURE OF CANCER

DR. KOCH’S AIFTBOD. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION N'KAY YORK, October 0. A resurgence of the cancer controversy seems inevitable, as the result of an article by Do: tor William F. Koch, of Detroit, in a magazine published by the American Association lor the study of a cure of cancer. l)r. Koch expounds a germ theory of cancer, promising to divulge a secret serum treatment in next month's issue. Dr Koch invented his .serum in 1920, hut his refusal to submit the formula to the local Medical Association resulted in his expulsion from membership, lie nevertheless continued therapeutic and prophylactic treatments, until to-day. I-I! tial recognition has been accorded him; notably by Doctor C. Everett, Field Director of the Radium Institute of New York. who. in the same issue, characterises Dr. Koch’s researches as epoch-making, and relates the results of treatment by the Koch method. Di • Field declares the Kuril treatment dispels the expectation that radium might he a spceiiie. adding that, after 11 years research, with radium, valued at 180.03.1 dollars, he has recently begun to minimise its use, be: a use it lacked

true therapeutic powers. Additional testimony is adduced by Doctor !.. Duncan Dulkley. renr.. physician in the Skin and Cancer Hospital of New York, and president of the Association for the Study and Cure ol Cancel - , who upholds the validity of Dr. Koch’s theory, and Dr. Field's practice, adding that he (Bulkier) is particularly interested in two eases lvoing treated by the Koch method with promising results. Dr Field writes that lie has treated seventy-eight advanced cases during the ] ast year with the Knell formula. The chemical costs were .i 0 dollars per dose, the patient rereiring three treatments six weeks apart. Dr Field says that 12 of those show better prospects. Nineteen bare died, but these all represent the limit ol lost vitality; and eight, of them had received previous radium treatments o. such massage and dosage as to alter metabolism and hasten toxema. “All lint three of our fatal cases .showed a period of betterment with a reduction of masses, ami no new growth appeared in any eases.”