CANCER CURE DOUBTED

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 866, 9 January 1930, Page 16

CANCER CURE DOUBTED

USE OF KEROSENE TREATMENT WITH RADIUM Press Association WELLINGTON, Wednesday. A report has been prepared by the Deputy-Director-General of Health, Dr. M. H. Watt, and submitted to the Minister of Health, the Hon. A. J. Stallworthy, in regard to the alleged “kerosene cure” for cancer of Air. L. N. White. The report, inter alia, says: “Mr. White claims that he cured himself by the use of applications of hot kerosene per rectum. The available evidence shows rather that all evidences of tumour and disease had disappeared uuder the use of radium before he left the hospital, and actually before ever kerosene was applied. Furthermore, 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 any absorption -of kerosene would not 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 prostate. It is more reasonable to conclude that the tumour of the prostate was an inflammatory process which naturally subsided or, if sarcomatous, that it was removed by the application of radium.”