The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-17
CANCER CURED BY THE X-RAY
HEMIRKABLE CASE or [. S. MAN
 TILLE OF THIS OITY.
When He Took tho TIeatment Swell Five Weeks Hlstory Of the Case.

| iNS lU tHGhcs uy AhSheh hcuuCeU Ah Five Weeks Hlstory Of the Case. l One of the most remarkable and in- | teresting cases of the treatment of can | vile, the well known carriage manufac- turer, who is now in the employ of H. 1 C. Hocomb. on Golf street. Five weeks ago yesterday MT. Manvile was carry | ing on the left side of his neck under 1 the ear, a cancer that had been growing i for three years, until at that time it has attained the remarkable proportions of ten by seven inches. The cancer was as large as two ordinary apples and would have meant the death of the pa tient had he not been treated when he was. He took the x-ray treatment and now the neck is not swollen in the least. Mir. Manville wears covering over the tender spot and aside from some skin blemishes there is nothing on the neck that would indicate that he had been a victim of the dreaded disease. It was the first satisfactory treatment of can5
 cer by the X-ray to specialists known in
 
 in the treatment of that disease hereaf-
 ter
 MT. Manvlle, while working in car
 riage shop about three years ago, was
 injured by having a carriage pole fall
 on him, striking him in the neck. He
 thought nothing of it for time but
 soon the injured spot began to pain him.
 He consulted with several physicians,
 all of whom said that cancer had
 started on his neck as the result of the
 pole falling on him. -
 From that time until five weeks ago
 MT. Manville was the subject of all
 kinds of treatment for the growth; in
 fact he took everything known to med
 ieal science. He spent months in sani-
 tariums and underwent all sorts of
 hardships in the hope that the cancer
 would be reduced, but instead of having any effect on the patient for the good, the cancer grew steadily worse.
 Tn one sanitarium MT. Manvile lived on a milk diet for thirty eight days, and when he left the institution he was nearly dead from starvation. This was about year ago The can cer grew so that it was gradually chok- ing him to death at one time and in or der to save himself from dying that way he had a lump cut out of the growth about two inches by an inch and a half.
 The removed piece was as hard as a rock and is one of MT. Manville's many souvenirs. Of course the victim couldn't lift up his head; he couldn't lift his left arm and his mouth was al- most closed as the cancer grew. He said yesterday that three weeks before he began the X-ray treatment he didn't care whether he lived afi6ther minute or not He certainly believed that he couldn't live for long.s During the three weeks before he took to the X-ray MT. Manville never slept more than twenty during the twenty-four hours of the day, and as result he was just about alive lie says. M
 Five weeks ago yesterday Mir Man vile consulted his family physician and told him that he guessed it was all off with him He told the doctor that he had taken one and d half teaspoons full of laudnum every night for many months in the hope that it would put him to sleep, but it was of no avail. | Dr. Kirby asked him if he had ever heard of the X-ray treatment for the | disease, and Mir. Manville told him that l he had been advised many times to try | Dr. Gilman, the we'll known Chicago K ray specialist. This MT. Manville re- fused to do, as he couldn't leave his in- | valid wife for the time necessary for | him to De treated. Dr. Kirby advised | 1im to consult Dr. Clarence F. Skinner | If 67 Grove street, this city, who has | pig X-ray machine in his private sani- | .arium on Grove street. MT. Manville | went Immediately to the New Haven | loctor, and after giving the history of | he case, said he would take the treat nent as a last resort He had not .aken it three days when the swelling | ell some and this was so encouraging hat he kept it up, until now he is en- irely healed. The treatment that Dr. skinner administered was very simple. All the patient had to do was to sit so hat the cancer would be penetrated by he light, and in this way it so effected he growth that its reduction was al- most continual