The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1891-01-03

COVeIy udS Uteu dttdlueQ Dy many
long years of investigation at great
expense of money. time and health,
so say nothing of the fierce opposi-
ton and obloquy which has been
thrown at the effort by those who
should have encouraged it, and who
now demand the knowledge for the
mere asking.
Further we would reply that Dr.
Koch keeps HIS remedy secret
and has already received a most
princely reward in money, in addi-
ton to which honors without stint
have been heaped upon him. OIL
course the doctor will make his
remedy known to the world at the
proper time. So will our San Fran
cisco remedy be made known at the
proper time and under proper con-
ditions. There are philanthropists
without. number who stand ready
to make good the compensation SO
soon as a proper medical investiga-
ton shall pronounce the cure
genuine one. Of course time alone
will prove its genuineness, but then,
in the meantime, thousands are
suffering and dying, while those
who should investigate are doing
nothing but putting hindrances in
the way of investigation. This is
not the way they do in Berlin.
Do they say there are no grounds
for Investigation? In reply, we
would say that there is every day
in the week waiting in the front
parlor of this city, large number
of persons who have the authority
of the most eminent physicians and
surgeons of this city that they are
afflicted with cancer. Some of these
persons have been operated on in
private offices and in public hos
pitals, and have subsequently been
assured of the positive recurrence
of the malady, with the assurance
that the knife must again be used.
These persons have afterward gone
to the location referred to for treat
ment.
At that locality not less than II
or Is has been the average number
under treatment for the last five or
six years-nine-tenths of which pa
tients have been discharged as per-
fectly cured-and not one single
case of return of the malady has
been reported while when the knife
is used, the books tell us that fully
nineteen in twenty return within
six or twenty-four months.
It has been intimated by some
that these cases of cure were not
cancer, but simply benign tumors.
If such is the fact, what are we to
say of the diagnosis of our leading
physicians? Don't they know a
cancer when they see it, and espe-
cially after they have cut it out,
held it in their hands and put it
under a microscope? Many and
many cases have occurred and been
successfully treated where the NAL
ady has returned after once and
twice being cut out, and in one case
after the third removal.
The only reasonable conclusion
to which an honest-thinking man
can arrive. after taking in the evil
dence, which is within the reach OF
all, is that either we have a remedy
for cancer in this city or our leading
physicians should be debarred by
statute from practicing any longer
in that speciality.
We desire that this statement
should be received by our readers
and the public as most carefully
considered utterance made after
four years of most patient investi-
CATION, aided much of the time by
medical gentlemen of undoubted
standing in their profession, but
whose names cannot be used in
public because of the fearful profes-
sional pressure which is immedi-
ately brought to bear upon any
medical person who presumes to
make any inquiry into this matter
of such vital interest to all. One
of our medical advisers and assist
ants who was convinced that the
discovery was genuine one, ano
who attempted to bring the matter
before the Medical Association O
this city at one of its regular
monthly meetings, was Immediately
put down, metaphorically stamped
upon and the next day received
note that his assistance was ne
longer needed as a lecturer before
the Cooper Medical College of this
city. Others who have shown de
sire to investigate have been threat
ened by word and by letter. The
writer of these lines was present a
the meeting referred to by invita-
ton of member of the association
|. and was unceremoniously requested
to leave the room, which he die
after vainly endeavoring to make
his excuse for being there. Hi'
voice was so completely drowned b,
the pandemonium of noise which
accompanied his exit that he coult
not be heard ten feet from his per
, son. We make this statement NOW
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