Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-11-05


was in 1850 and 1851 at Havana. Latterly he
has been stationed at Granada, Nicaragua,
where he was appointed collector of customs by
Gen. Walker On the 18th of September he
participated as a volunteer in the engagement at
San Jacinto, and was there killed.
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Cas- CANcERs BE CURED WITHOUT THE USE OF
the KNIFE ?-Is question tsat, some years ago,
would have been answered unhesitatingly in the
negative It is seldom, indeed, that we have
ever feItit either matter ofinierest to ourselves
or readers to notice, otherwise than through adj
vertising, any of the wonderful discoveries in
the healing art But when remedy is set
above contradiction and clear without the pale
Of quackery, by the known standing and seien-
tiiic attainments of the vouchers, feel that it
is matter of interest and profit TO give our
readers the benefit of it Of such character
seems to be the system of treatment discovered
and published to the world by Drs. Gilbert &
kennedy, of New York. We have received
their work. and, in addition to it, we have lead
ing articles from our exchanges all over the
country, as also the certificates Of such men as
Ex-Gov Tucker, Hon. T. Butler King, Judge
Alexander Walker, Judge F. w. Huling, Dr.W.
p. Allison, and, in addition to other vouchers,
standing references are made to Hon. Jas. c.
Jones of Tenn, Hon F. P. Stanton. and others.
Thisis the reason, we say, why we are inclined
to bring this matter before our readers. The
disease called CANCER is universally admitted, so
far as our information extends, by the medical
fraternity all over the world, to be one of the
human race Thisis the reason why the word
Cancer sounds so fearfully to the human ear
Almost every imaginable remedy has been en-
ployed, both internally and externally, for its
cure, until it seems to have stood as confessed
fact that the disease once seated could not be
eradicated With the cases that ever came un-
der our own knowledge, the most that the ply
sieians purported to do was to palliate the suf-
ferings of the patient 1t always seemed as if
nature withheld the aid which she generally
proffers to medicine in other diseases. If, then,
it is true that the disease has at length been
foiled and been successfully treated, it is the
duty of journalists to let suffering humanity
know it.
Some time since there appeared in the New
Orleans papers'a series of certificates, purport-
ing to be signed by persons cured of cancer, by
a Dr. Gilbert, then practicing in that city
Shortly after, the New Orleans Delta, in the
most emphatic manner, endorsed these certif-
Gates as genuine and the cures as perfect. These
editorial notices were continued from time to
time in the leading columns of that journal,
and We're copied into many of the Southern pa
pers, Judge Walker, whom we believe is now
at the head of the Cincinnati Enquirer, says of
DIR. Gilbert that, without pretending to work
miracles or cure all diseases, he aspires to euro
and succeeds in curing eight out of ten of the
worst descriptions of sores, which defy the skill
of the regular physicians
The New York Universe says, we have seen
the living witnesses of his triumphs over cancer
and desperate tumors, and, the desire of each
and every one of them has been that we should
make known these cases to the world for the
benefit of others similarly afflicted The Uni
verse then goes on to give testimony which its
editors say they have seen with their own eyes,
and heard with their ears from the patients them
selves
This is all that we have space at present to
offer upon the subject. If it is true that this
disease can be cured BY any means, and especi-
ally without the knife, it will indeed be an in
teresting matter to record upon the pages of a
journal The address of these gentlemen is
number 746, Broadway, New York.