The morning call., 1891-01-04
CANCER CONQUERED
BY MILD REMEDIES.
The Worst Disease to Which
Human Flesh Is Heir Cured.
Experience of a Citizen Who Escaped the
scslpel of the Surgeon and Was Made
Entirely Well in Thirty Days.

Medical discoveries aided by medical
science, have made such wonderful strides
of late as almost to Justify the belief
that the millennium is at hand, and that
mans age, barring accidents, may be pro-
longed to the full term of one thousand years
promised when that time shall come. First,
DR.. Brown Sequard develops vital pri nci-
pies through his extraordinary elixir, and
infuses new life into old veins, not after the
manner so luridly set forth in the journals
of the day, 10 be sure. but in way and to
| an extent anticipated by the learned special
| isl himself. Professor Pasteur startled the
world. both lay and professional, by the in
PRODUCTION of a preventive against rabies,
even after the poison has filled the veins
with its active principle and a terrible
death
APPEARED To BE INEVITABLE.
At this stage Professor Koch steps to the
front with the astounding intelligence that
radical cure for that heretofore cOnsid-
cred incura Die malady has been discovered, a
means whereby the victim may be snatched
from the very jaws of DEATH Here are
three startling propositions, made by men
eminent in their professions, which have
stood the test of most thorough investga-
tioD, crowned by experimental success. The
medical profession is slow TO adopt new
remedies, and for that reason medical practi-
TONERS are oitentimes unjustly charged with
uutairneSs, opposition to progress, an I'M
Willingness to adopt remedies proven to be
ethcaclous for fear it would ruin their prac-
tice,. and other charges of a similar nature.
That such charges are unfounded, however
is abundantly proven by the patient inves-
tigation, even at great cost, which they give
TO every new discovery. But the lives of
their patients are in their hands, and they
|. feel their great responsibility.
AN OPEN FIELD.
But much as medical and surgical science
I: has done for the afflicted, the field still re-
T. mains open, and aHOther Of LIES most de-
|: termined foes has lad to succumb to the
skill Of medical science The very an
nouncement in the past that one was
afflicted with cancer sent a thrill of horror
10. the soul. Not only has it been consid-
cred ineradicatle, but the slow torture to
the person afflicted and the offensiveness of
the disease have intensified the loathsome-
ness Of It's presence, until in many Instances
the victim has sought the death Of the sui
eide rather than live the life of a parah
Added To other cuGcOmltant evils has been
the dread of the knife and the agony of the
:Cautery, coupled with the knowledge that
death under any course OF treatment was
inevitable. " hat wonder that the stricken
would grasp at any and every thing that
. professed to exercise the malignant disease
HORACE GREELEY's PRoTEGE.
During the days when the late Horace
Greeley lived ana iourished that eStmable
gentleman was President OF an or-aniZa-
ton known as the Farmers Club" which
held its meetings:in the Cooper Union in
New Ork City, and at the close of each
meeting announced the subject that would
be under consideration at the next meeting
MR. al wa
from al! parts Of the. State ana the adigin-
ing States At the close of one of the meet |
lags Mir. Greeley announced that at the next !
meeting !" The Curative Properties of Herbs |
and Ilants" would be the subject under dis |
cussi0n, and that he would be much pleased I
ii any OF the members would read short pa
prrS BASED upon personal experience or Oh
SerVation, describing remarkable cures
wrought by any herb or plant Wonderful
were the experiences read, the mullen be-
ing the subject of so many rapers that il
almost came to be considered "a aupiyeTsdl
cuTe-al. Finally an ancient spinsteU from
Connecticut was to her feet, and proceeded
10 Teau paper, III the course OF which
SHE RELATED EXPERIENCES
Dating as fan back as the days OF her great
granddaughter, all of WHICH Went 10 show /
that the only panacea and cure for cancer
was sheep snrreL How do you apply it?"
asked Mi. Greeley. Make ali emulsion and
poultice the cancer, and when il has done
its work, you lit the cancer right out. |
Then wash the wound with warm vinegar |
and the cure IS complete " IS there no |
danger from your enulsfOn?" asked the |
sage, "Oh, yes; it is sure death TO let it |
stay ON too long" She could not tell the /
exact length OF. time to leave the pOultice on. /
hut 1t must be lust long enough" Mr. |
Greeley then aSked,her how she would pro-
coed IN case the cancer was 50 Situated that |
il could neither be seen nor allow the ap H. |
cation to be made. =" Carve to it," was the |
lacunic.rtply. 1t is only fair to say that the |
sheep-sOrrel pOultice did not at once jump |
into public favor.
1t Is undoubtedly true that there have |
been mid or doubtful cases of this malady |
that have been dissipated or scattered by |
outward applications. There are also cases |
on record OF where persons lave been sup |
posed to have been
AFFLICTED. WITH CANCER,
And where the foreign body supposed to be
of cancerous growth has. disappeared with |
out any special treatment. Nature is a
great physician, and If 1t has far chance
will drive many diseases to the wall that
would not yield to ordinary courses Of treat
meut. Physicians understand this better
than any ole else, ais many dose Of bread
pills rolled in Dever's powder, and thus
working on. the Imagination, abundantly
testifies. But cancer is not an Imaginative
disease, and heavy doses Of whisky and
arsenic, the use OF the Scalpei and the APP
plicatiOu OF the cautery have all failed IN
their missions. Specifies have been dis
always accompany the growing tumOr, and
destroy the offensive odoTs. THIS is some
thing. Nay, it is great deal. But 1t Is not
all. 1t las been reserved for san Frau
cisco lady physician to discover and apply
genuine cure for cancer. Not simply an
extirpation, roofing or cutting out, but
genuine cure.
RATIONAL METHOD.
In treating cancer. the doctor ignores the
use Of the knife, and in very few cases is
anything like plaster used, and even when
used, severe cauStlcS are not employed, the
object being to do effective work with as
little pain to the patent as possible. The
specifics given act gently aud palnlessly,
and the unctiOns and other compounds en-
plOyed are either animal or vegetable,
new one. Its germ was discovered by the
doctor more than twenty years ago, and
what is told now is simply an elaboration of
the work done in that space of time. There
is no .hypOdermic injection of attenuated
lymph. but simply pleasant Alternative
introduced into the stomach, whence by
ABSORPTION and nutrition, and through
physical movements, 1t moditles and con-
trolls the vital machinery, and so, with the
aid Of outward applications, and the active
endOSmose action set up by use of the bat
terry, every cancerous germ is not only dis
integrated and disSipated. but it is fully and
elfectually driven from the system, and SO
com plete is
THE BANISHMENT
OF the disease that years of waiting have
given nc sign of a return. There are many
persons now living in this city, well known
in the community, who can be seen on any
day, who can and will testify to the efficacy
of the cure-radical. not ephemeral-nnder
the doctors treatment. Representative of
THE CALL had the satisfaction oil cOnvers-
ing with one gentleman who al one time was
a sufferer from malignant cancer, from
which he looked forward to death as the
only relief, but who is now, as he has been for
many years. Il we'll man. Mr. Ezra Richards,
who formerly kept the United States res
taurant at JAS Clay street. near Montgom-
cry, is the gentleman referred to. The story
told in narrative form is as follows:
MR. RICHARDS TESTIMONY