New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-18
THE BLACK DOCTOR

copied In m European Jurna!s IN relation 10 cee-
bra'ed doctenr noir. who has gained VIDE no'o.
ety Tor some wonderful cures Of cancer. IN rams aud
particularly Of one upon toe lip Of Herr SAX the m
vertor of the born known by his nsnr. cure 50
remarkable a. this seemed TO br, and upou ps'4sai
90 well known. gave an nmedis.. snd great rePuts'
ton TO hr. Vries the bscs suryrpn. We have some
particulars in relation 10 tie and The pTse'ioner
which have Dot yet beer m,ie put'Is-
IL was well kJovn ths, Her sax hsi been sB'oted
With cancerous tunor upon the upper lip Of Peeu-
Larry malignant type; that he bal been under toe
care of three of the most distinguished ssrgecoe In
Paris, Mn NepaH, Ricort and CSino, Who bod d
claret It % be- a. cancers indeed, generally eon-
sdered, incursbe, and that they bad nothing better
to propose for the aui-oratior of sis sucrngs,
brief proonca.ion II his life than tie Use Of the knife
Her sax strsrk from this alternative, and having
heard Of the black doctor put himself under hes
care. Th Mr.. Nries aimed to have iiscoyeretsome-
WI among the Irsi.ns Of South Americs some won
del.u hefbs which. among other extraordinary things
Of vh Oh they we're capable, certain remedy
for that terrible disease with which the great muir
cisB wss afflicted The result seemed ~ justify the
faith OF Sax. The black doctor began bis treatment;
The tumor began TO soften; gangrebe scon followed
and at the end Of eight days she cancer fell from the
Up Of the happy patent, and he was pronounced
well man No wonder Paris was excited; 10 wonder
the black doctor WIS hailed almost as a divinity
though Of an unusual color wonder that sour own
artists Of the illustrated journals fastened to
the portrait Of the usrious prs,.itoner. Ssch re-
.nlt might have folio sed almost anywhere, except in
this county where are never carried away by auy
sudden popular enthusiasm, are never imposed upon
by charlsians, where We have especial contempt
for anything like medical quackery, and where
could never be taken in by doctor of that color.
The claims of 81. Nries benefactor not
Above without question. The surgeons said that
the DISAPPEARANCE of tumors by gsngrene,
Though rare, not unknown, and accidental
and that the process was no more curative than
uoyal by ,he knife. Herr Sax they do not consider
cured or If cured, IL only by happy acsidsn Mt.
But Sax aad his friends did not agree with them.
They considered his respite frDms certain and speedy
death as dne so the skill aud remedies of II. Eri-s,
ard accordingly they appealed 10 the Rmper for his
protection, when attempt was made to crush the
blsek doctor by prosecution for Illegal practice.
For orc. Napoleon took the popular side perhaps be-
it wae popular. perhaps from natural sympa
thy with ore who was denounced as a bold and uu-
scrupulous ps-terder and permission was given to
N yres to p,setice one year. Patients Of rank and
dstir elton fosled around him. Paris, it was sud
denly made evident had than one Of hose bril-
liant and dazzling women, hitherto known only to the
writers OF icea who, Respondent ador-d aud envied
IN society hid beneath their smiles their beauty and
their laces a terrible and consuming secret. NJ.
ynes was the fashion. Velpau, the celebrated sur
geon admitted him to the wards of his hos
ptal, putting certain number of cases
under hs charge for treatment for given
length Of time. The experiments were TO be made
under y-pau'- own observation. he agreeing that
fthey successful and the patients cured that ne
would be the arst TO proclaim il to the world but re-
curing, on the other hand, if success should not
follow that N. Yres should renounce his delusion,
and acknse ledge that bis assumptions were inbound
ed. We have not heard that NJ Eelpau has yet an
nounced that FOR cancer has been discovered;
on the contrary we are assured that the pateuts in
his hoepsal have yet received no benefit from the
new treatment. But we learn, notwithstanding. from
a late newspaper paragraph that company has
been formed through which the world is to receive
the benefit Of the discoveries of NJ Nries.
This last named circumstance il not favorable
to that person Even If the cure of Herr sax should
prove permanent it is not certain that It was not the
result Of natural process, and at any rate, IL not
alone a sufficient ba-is by which the truth Of the
alleged discoveries Of the black doctor is to I've tested
TIE wards Of hospital would afford much more
certain method, and one by which professional jeal
ou.v if any existed would be certain TO he defeated
in its purpose. That a company should be formed to
make Of the alleged discovery mercantile adyen-
ture looks much more ike determination To take
advantage of the reputation already acquired than
firm reliance on discovery Itself. In the meantime,
while the world is whiting 10 hear VI Nepsus report
of NJ yriess success in the hospital it is interesting
to know something Of this latter geutemsns previous
history.
lie /. first heard of by our informant at Rio 10
Janero in 1852, where he pracced IS physician for
about eighteen month His specially there was
eephantiasis, but his practice more beneficial to
himself than h- PATIENTS for, while he wes eapidy
aceuu, slsting fortune, they grew no better. He
wa, advised at length that it would be safer for him
to leave that city, and he fastened on board En-
ylrh vessel bound Java But that Dutch settlement
doe, got to have offered him sufficiently wide
field for his ambition for DR.. weeden Cooke, the
Surgeon Of the Cancer Hospital in London, says, in
recent letter the L0Reet that he arrived in that
ETY. several years ago and calling upon him, assured
aim Of the wonderful success be had had in the
OF cancer by method Of his Own in the West Indies
DR. Cooke felt himself justified, by these Confident
assurances, in putting afew cases of this ncurabe dir
es-e under his char the London Hospital The result
did not justify either DR. Cookies hopes VI. |ness
assertions. The patients not cured, nor Wa ther
esndition even amehora,ed. ThereGpon he dsap-
pearei TO emerge again at Paris in 1875, with the
.sne pretensioss and the confidence. and boldly
pre.ented himself to NJ. Balm Of the 81. Louis Hos
pitsl still with his sovereign remedy for cancer. u.
Bslin, Ike d. Cooke listened and if not convinced,
AZ least dous,ed. Again several hospital patients
were put under hi- charge, whom he prscteed ioe
year. but with positive results. Two years later