Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1904-10-06
CANCER CURE COMING
Medical Authorities Sure Remedy
Will Be Found.
Aadfum and X-Rays In Right Diree-
ton Although Prolonged Ex-
pOsure Is DanEerOus-In-
terestfnH Research.

Published statements with regar'
to medical discoveries, chiefly in con
nectlOn with X-raya and radium, fol
low one another with such rapidity tina
it is difficult to follow them with pre-
cision. The deepest interest is natur
ally centered on the achievements Of
those who are trying to work theil
way to the discovery of cure for can
Ger, which, as a cause Of death, ranks
in this country second only to phthisis
says London report
The results of series OF expert
ments in Great Britain and on the con-
| tinent are certainly such as to arouse
| that they are at least on the right
| track. 1t would be rash and unjustifi-
able to say more.
That false hopes are being constantly
raised by premature announcements Of
supposedly infallible cures is undeni-
able. Such claim was made recently
by the newspapers as result of
the experiments of eminent bacteri
ologists who have been engaged entire
the last six months in research
WORK at the laboratory of the Royal
College OF Surgeons, under the auspices
Of the cancer-research fund
Drs. Murray and BashfOrd who were
among those appointed investigators,
refuse to give confirmation to the
story. Nothing, they declare, is being
neglected by the committee, and con-
seQuc1tly much research has taken
place with respect to incipient cancer
in lower animals, yet the causes of can
Gel Ill these animals are often of an en-
tirely different nature from those in
man.
The cancer cure. said one of the ply
sicians. will never be discovered by
one man. When it is found it will be |
by the continuous efforts of every one
engaged. One little clew leads to
another and nobody hides anything or
tries to hide anything from his col
leagues. 1t must be noted, too, that
there is not the slightest intimation in
the report presented at the annual
meeting Of the cancer research fund
that any definite results from the ex-
periments are likely.
Prof. Duguet, an eminent Paris ply
sician and professor in the French
Academy Of Medicine, declares that the
experiments hitherto made have re-
yealed nothing on which to base scien-
tific treatment.
I'VE are still cropping in the dark"
he says, with regard to the reported
cures by the X-rays. My long expert
ence in the largest hospitals in Paris
has made me most skeptical Believe
me, these cures are not definite
The Mldclesex hospital in London is
the pioneer in cancer research in Great
Britain. It receives suggestions for
cures in all parts of the world weekly.
Many are given fair trials, but hitherto
without success. The Middlesex hos
pltal doctors authorize the positive
statement that while they do not claim
to have effected anything like cure by I
means OF the X-rays and Ftnsen light
treatments, yet suffering from cancer
has been relieved.
EdisOn's experience Of i'll effects
from prolonged exposure to the X-rays
Is no new thing IN the London hOspi-
tGlS, where it has long been found that I
he demonstrators who are daily in the
presence Of the rays are liable to
ep5thcliona, malignant growth Of the .
SKIN which IS nearly allied to cancer.
Two workers in the radiograph de-
oartment Of the London hospitals are
low on an enforced vacation with their
lands Injured. but this is not a com
non experience. One precautio1 TAX
n in some of the continental hospitals
s that OF emplCying q leadcn screen +
vhen taxing photographs, so that only Y
ne necessary surface shall be exposed
o the rays
This plan, 1t Is thought by the Eng u
lsh physicians, Is not necessary and
re suggestion that the operators wear
eaden mittens Is thought to be i'm -
ossible, as they would probably de- T
troy the medical properties OF the
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