National Republican., 1885-04-25
IS CANCER INCURABLE.
Evidence Adduccd Showing That Hy-
dropntly Conauers IL.

Tho New York Morning Journals satire
representing Gen. Grant as watching the,
condition Of his physicians copied q day
or two ago into the columns of THE Ma
TIoSAL REPUBLICAN, doubtless voiced
the sentiments Of many who have begun
to doubt the correctness of tho diagnosis
and treatment of the case, but IL is sug-
gestivo of some far more serious phases of
medical treatment and practices that pre-
vail in this country. There seems to be
so great variance in the methods and
practices of American physicians as COM
pared with those of Europe that only
I good can result when they are pointed
out and the strong light of impartial
criticism brought to bear upon them.
What must appear even to q casual OBJ
server rs one of the most striking con-
trasts is the fact that no American
physician is ever known to surrender
patient to another system of treatment
than his own because of tho pc
culiarity Of the disease; that in
stead of sending him to competent
specialist, q sanitary retreat, or another
doctor of known skill in that particular
branch, he will persist in exercising his
own skill until his case" gets we'll or
dies. When the Prince of Wales some
years ago failed to rally under the treat
ment of his physicians, they sent him to
noted German hydropath, and he was
restored to health. Hydropathic treat
ment thus far seems to have taken no
very strong foothold in this country. Is
it because there ia not enough money in
it, and because our physicians, too, want
to get rich too fast, like other people
One is loath to believe it. In Europe it
has made wonderful progress during the
last three or four decades. In 1S40 there
was in all Germany but one establish
ment Of that kind, and that was con-
Quoted by a peasant, Priessnitz: now there
are over 800, all conducted by competent,
skilled physicians. Assuming the correct
ness of the diagnosis in Gen. Grants case,
and even that the means employed to
alleviate his sutieriugs were those most
approved OF by modern medical skill, it
remains still an unsolved question,
Must his physicians give him up2"
And naturally another, SIS his disease
incurable; is there no remedy for cancer? ?"
They say that there are no cases on
record whore cancer has been cured; in
fact, they have prepared the American
people, who watch with eagerness every
sign Of hope for the old hero, to look upon
his present rally as n mere temporary re-
lief, to be followed by the inevitable de-
cline. The statement that no cases of
cancer cure are known to exist can be
successfully combatted, as The NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN is informed by reliable au-
thority, which is prepared to give names
OF at least two respectable ladies of this city
who two years ago underwent treatment
by DR.. j. w. Schoenecker, of ZIG Twelfth
street, and are to-day perfectly free from
all traces of that terrible atiliction. One
| of them submitted to a surgical operation
performed by three noted surgeons of
this city, but the cancer reappeared few
months afterwards, and rather than suf-
fer another operation to be performed the
lady concluded TO undergo different
| system Of treatment, and did SO with the
| happiest result. The other case was that
Of lady who refused to undergo an
operation for cancer of the breast, as ad-
vised by her physician, and, after DIR.
| Schoenecker's treatment, she Is to-day
| free from the cancer. and also from neu-
ralgia of the head, from which she was
suffering at the same time, and has re-
maincd woll for tho last two years.
There appears to be an irreconcilable
difference of opinion in regard to the
possibility of cancer cure between the
two schools Of medicine-allopathy and
| nyuropalny. Inc Allopath5 class II ire
vocably and permanently with the in
durable diseases, and point in support OF
their theory to tho invariable failure of
the most skillful treatment, while the
hydropsths claim that by stimulating the
organs OF secretion to their most vigor-
GUS action they can ultimately expol the
germs OF the disease from the system and
incidentally increase the pationt's
strength by giving him appetite and a
better assimilation OF food.
While it is highly commendable that
Gen. Grants physicians have shown
themselves unwilling to throw their illus.
triOus patient into the arms of any ire.
sponsible specialist ready to receive him
yet his precious life is too doar to the
nation that they should not be asked
before surrendering him Internationally
to the dread disease to resort to the hy-
dropathic system Of treatment, system II
which rests upon long recognized princi.
pies of SCIENCE and is acknowledged by
all schools of medicine, as evidenced by
the fact that many Of tho most prominent
physicians of Europe send thoir patients
to its hydropathic institutions.