The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-30
DO THE ACONlES OF
DISEASE MAKE SUI.
eide RIGHT?
Eminent Scientist Discusses Question
of Vital Interest and Importance
to All Who Suffer Tortures of
the Flesh.
DEATH NOT THE ONLY
DOOR OF ESCAPE.
For Those Pronounced IncIIrabIe BY
Physicians-HOw to be Cured.
Especial Correspondence

New York. April 90 "Are those
who suffer the terrible agonies of dis
ease justified in committing suicide?"
This was the question put to that
eminent scientist and pathologist of
this city Prof. Wallace Hadley. He
replied:
My long experience has taught me
to have the utmost sympathy for those
who, driven by the tortures of terrible
bodily affliction look upon self deStruc-
ton as the only door of escape. But at
the same time l do not believe in
suicide 1t is not the only door of es-
cape. Leaving aside the question of
right or wrong, the question of it's be-
ing a crime against the laws of God
and of the State, and thinking only of
the poor suffering mortal, | say that
there is another and a better way to
secure the long sought relief from the
insanity of pain.
And what way?"
Get well. Stop the pain. Drive out
the disease"
isn't that easier said than done"
mot necessarily, if the right
method is followed"
"But there are certain diseases pro-
nounced incurable by the medical pro-
fession. diseases that defy all drugs
and medicines
physicians as we'll as the general pub
lie, but do not agree. l firmly believe
that there is no disease that truly can
be called incurable. / am willing to go
still further. l make the statement
that there is no disease that [, myself,
may not cure. l am just as ready to
cure cancer, consumption, paralysis,
Brights disease. organic weakness, To-
com,dt1r -ataXia, and other diseases
usually considered incurable, as / am
to cure rheumatism, stomach trouble,
kidney disease, catarrh and the more
common ailments. In this connection
l especially remember the case of a
man in Traverse City. Mich, a Mr..
Harry Williams, who was one of my pa
TENTS He had terrible disease that
threatened to rot his bones, made his
hair and teeth fall out. destroy sight.
taste, smell and hearing and cover his
body with ulcerouS sores, disease
that makes man living corpse, like
leproSy He failed to get help from his
home doctors and was in such misery
of body and mind that he looked upon
suicide as his only chance of escaping
more frightful death, and actually
was thinking of killing himself when.
luckily for him, his case was brought
to my attention. / saved his life: |
cured him. My treatment drove the
poison out of his body, cleansed his
blood of the loathsome disease germs.
reached to the very root of the disease
and restored the man to perfect
health. Another patient Of mine, Mr..
Joseph r. Stewart, of Camden, n. j.,
had been told by various physicians
that he had cancer of the stomach.
complicated with kidney disease and
bowel trouble that his case was lncuf-
able and that he must make the best
of what little life was left to him be-
fore death claimed him. He suffered
most terrible agonies, and was on the
verge of the grave when he applied to
me as last resort. Notwithstanding
what the doctors had said, | accepted
the case, put him under my treatment,
and cured him. To-day he is worth a
good many dead men, and in a recent
letter to me speaks of his cure as a
miracle" Then there was the case
of Mrs M Worthington. of Centre
Square, Pa. For twenty-five years she
had been a hopeless invalid from
complicated female troubles. many