CURED OF CANCER.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5491, 23 October 1929, Page 2

CURED OF CANCER.

FRANKTON MAN’S CLAIM. GIVEN A MONTH TO LIVE. “Nearly two years ago I was told I was suffering ■ from virulent cancel’ and that my case was hopeless. I was given a month to live. Two doctors at the Auckland Hospital told me I could, if I desired, undergo treatment in the medical ward until the end came. That, I took it, meant doping with morphia. I replied that as I'was to die, I preferred to do so at home. So I went home and decided to make an effort to cure myself by a somewhat drastic treatment. I knew I could not get any worse, and there was just a chance that the treatment might succeed.” That it did succeed was proved by the presence in the Waikato Times office to-day of the man himself, Mr L. N. White, of 54 Bandon Street, Frankton (states Saturday’s Times). Mr White told a Times reporter that he had ha<] no sign of the old trouble for over 12 months, and he felt it . a duty to the community of sufferers from this world-wide scourge to make the treatment ’known, in the hope that it might benefit at least some of them. The Treatment. The treatment undertaken by Mr White, while drastic, was simple. It consisted of heating kerosene to a high temperature and gradually letting it cool to a heat acceptable to the human interior. Injections of kerosene were made three times daily, whilst the patient also took daily doses of Epsom salts. Although the treatment in the early stages was somewhat painful, said Mr White, the intensity of the pain gradually diminished. The treatment was continued for about a month. Mr White declares that he was first treated for cancel - trouble three years ago, but it was two years ago that the death sentence was pronounced. Since he treated himself he had had no return of the trouble, and in the spot where the growth had been drawn virtually by the roots a cavity remained. He quoted the names of the two doctors who had declared him an early case for the grave, and stated that the Health Department had since had him examined by one of its medical officers, who declared the cure absolute. Asked how he came to believe the kerosene might effect a cure, Mr White said he had observed the curative effect of heated kerosene for fistulas in horses, and he decided to take the risk, even if it killed him. He was doomed to die shortly, and he considered it was worth the risk of shortening his few remaining days for the chance of recovery. He was thankful he had taken the risk.