CANCER AND RADIUM.
London, July 27. Dr. Forbes Ross is experimenting with potassium for cancer. He mentions a desperate case where potassium was given in large doses, and radium was also applied, the result being marvellous. A cancer which the surgeon was unable to touch disappeared completely in six weeks. The Director of the Radium Institute described the case as most wonderful. Dr. Ross mentions a decided improvement in a case where a lady was sent home to die, and potassium and yolk of egg were prescribed for her. Furthermore the lady was in the last stage ot cancer, and was only given six weeks to live. Now, alter .the potassium treatment, she is quite well.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1076, 30 July 1912, Page 3
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116CANCER AND RADIUM. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1076, 30 July 1912, Page 3
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