CANCER CURE

Hokitika Guardian, 9 January 1930, Page 3

CANCER CURE

MR WHITE’S CASE. By Telegraph—Per Press Association ) WELLINGTON, Jan. 8. i A report has .been prepared by the Deputy-Director-General of Health (Dr M. H. Watt) and submitted to the Minister of Health (Hon. A. J. Stallworthy) in. regard .to the alleged kerosene cure for cancer of Air L. N. White. ,

* The report, inter alia, says: Mr iWhite claims that lie cured himself by the use of applications of hot kerosene per rectum. The available evidence shows, rather, that all the evidences of .tumour and disease had disappeared .under the use of radium, and before ne left the hospital, and actually before kerosene was applied to the rectum; which, if the evidence*of the hospital authorities can be relied upon, was at no time affected, and from which the absorption, of kerosene would now occur It is difficult, then, to see how kerosene applied in this way would have any influence on a tumour in a neighbouring organ, the prostrate. It i.s more reasonable to conclude that the tumour of the prostrate either was an inflammatory .process which naturally subsided, or, if sarcomatous, that it was removed by the application of radium.