Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-06-08
4 CURE For CANCER.

We have noticed going the rounds
of the papers, the story of a wonder
full cure of a cancer wrought by man
in Union, who makes no claims to med
ical knowledge; but who got his secret
from a former friend, now dead.
The statement In the papers is that
the cure is a purely vegetable prepara-
ton and that its operation is simply
perfect, taking out the cancer to which
It is applied by the roots, and eradicat-
ing 1t completely. The story we refer
to has appeared in number Of papers.
and Is evidently being printed solely
as a matter Of news, with no concern
as to the advertising value attached.
Just what the Union mans secret
is, we do not know. The statement Is
that he is going to get his information
patented and then he will go more ex-
tensively into the cancer business, to
which, so far as we are able to see,
there can be no reasonable objection.
But the circumstance has suggested to
US that we have some information along
this line that is not shared in by the
general public, and 1t occurs to US that
1t will not be amiss to publish what we
know.
The late Mrs. r. L. Ferguson OF
Yorkville, had a cancer cure that was
infallible in its operation on skin can
GERS Of a certain kind. We are not up
on the cancer question; but we know
that there are various kinds Of cancers,
and without referring to the books to
get technical accuracy, We will say that
we know one kind is known as the
skin cancer. It makes its appearance
first as a warty pimple Of unalarming
appearance and then grows and grows,
until finally 1t takes in all the sound
surface adjoining, drawing Its support
from the body through tentacle-like
roots that lead in all directions from
the main protuberance, except, OF
course, outward. 1t was this kind OF
a cancer that Mrs. Ferguson knew how
to cure, and 1t was through her that
we learned what we know about 1t.
Her remedy was very simple one;
but at the same time one which must
have been discovered by accident orig
inally and which once lost would prob
ably never be re-discovered. Although
we do not know II to be fact, we
have an idea that 1t Is the same that
is being used by the man In Union, the
secret Of which he got somewhere.
Mrs. Ferguson got the secret from an
old lady, who formerly lived In York
VILE, Mrs. Cline, long since dead; but
where Mrs. Cline got 1t, we do not
know, except the understanding was
that she could trace 1t back a hundred
years or more.
Here Is the secret Extract the Juice
of ordinary sour grass, put this juice
in a pewter plate and set In the sun,
where 1t will be converted into paste
or salve. 1t Is now ready for use. Just
apply 1t to the cancer. The patient
will vince and groan as he would un-
der a red hot iron, at first for a time.
The effects of later applications Is not
so severe. After two or three days the
cancer may be pulled out by the roots:
but 1t will drop out itself II left alone.
One Of these skin cancers thus re-
moved, looks more than anything else,
like a cedar ball after rain.
Those who have tried 1t, say that
the sour grass will not form a paste or
salve in any other than a pewter ves-
sci; but that, Of course, We do not
know. There Is no question of the
fact, however, that sour grass salve,
made in a pewter vessel, will safely kill
and remove a skin cancer, provided, the
treatment is commenced before the
cancer has made too much headway.