CONSUMPTION CURE

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 839, 6 December 1929, Page 16

CONSUMPTION CURE

DOCTORS SCEPTICAL OF AUCKLANDER’S CLAIM

CLERGYMAN’S COMPOUND Press Association WELLINGTON, Today. Wellington doctors appear to be a little sceptical regarding the merits of the Auckland clergyman's claim to have found a cure for consumption. The Rev. Edward Ward, vicar of the Church of Ascension at Point Chevalier. says he has discovered a compound which is claimed to have cured scores of cases of tuberculosis, and permission had been given by Archbishop Averill to distribute the compound at practically no cost. The discoverer. however, fearing that the prescription would be commercialised, refuses to disclose ns composition. A well-known Wellington practitioner. when approached on the subject, spoke with decided feeling. “If there is anything in the thing,'’ he said, "surely the first thing the discoverer would do would be to get -he opinion of a number of medical men. Research work has been going on for a great many years dealing with all possible treatment for tuberculosis of the lungs. The results, however, are invariably published so that all details connected with these investigations can be get by medical men Interested in the subject. If there is anything in the present claim, surely the discoverer would be only too glad to put his. formula before a body of men competent to judge it possibilities.” Other practitioners comment in similar terms.