Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-16
PROCLAIM RADIUM
AS CANCER CURE
Results of Experiments Are De-
cIared Successful by En-
inent Surgeons.


PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 1s.-Cancer,
mat blight of the ages which has baf-
ned science, has been conquered. The
discovery of Madame Curie-radium--
is the cure.
Dr. Howard A. Kelly, of the Johns
, hopkins University, supplemented by
Or. Robert Able, of New York city,
TWO Of the greatest surgeons in the
country made this announcement last
night before distinguished audience
OF surgeons and physicians at the Col
lege Of Physicians, comprising the
section of general medicine.
lt was not a mere announcement
ocular demonstrations we're made by
pr. Kelly, in which he showed posi-
i've cures" of cancerous growths.
Dr. Able produced scores of plaster
casts, which only recently were exhib-
TIED by him in Madame Curie's labora-
tory as demonstration to her that
the discovery of radium had effected
marvellous cures of diseases.
In addition, DR.. Kelly stated with
positive emphasis that malignant tu-
mors may be removed as if by magic
the rays of the radium eating into the
growths and causing them to disap-
pear, in many cases, within forty-eight
hours.
DIR. Kelly then averred with great
emphasis that the word "cure" may
now be applied to this form of treat
ment.
He asserted that cancer of the nose,
eye, tongue, larynx and breast had
been cured and that no recurrence
has taken place. A warning, how
ever, was sounded by the surgeon. He
.said patients should not wait to be
1ured by radium, as there was such
81 limited amount in existence it could
not go around. In fact, he said that
the surgeon still would have to play
Q. big part in curing the disease, as
many of the infected portions should
be cut away and the radium rays ap-
piled to the roots. Attack the disease
at it's first appearance, was the ad-
vice given.
To prove his assertions the speaker
asked that the lights be lowered.
Scores of stereopticon views were
projected upon the screen. These por-
trayed patients at the time they were
admitted for treatment, showing hid
eous cancerous growths on the face
Other pictures we're shown after the
treatment. All signs of the disease
had vanished. Children born with
cancer breaking out ON their faces
were exhibited by the lantern; in the
next picture the growths had VAN
jshed.
The most remarkable case which
has ever come to the attention or Or,
Kelly was, that of a man from Mis-
souri,, a sufferer with an enormous
tumor on the forehead, which hung
down over the right eye and around
10 the left ear. Dr. Kelly applied
radium to the growth and in forty
eight hours it had completely disap-
peared
DR.. Able followed with other won
ders. He said that the work of Or.
Kelly and the few experts had dissi-
pated the thought that cancer and
! tumors were incurable. He described
the diseases as mere "riotous cells
which were brought back into their
natural conditions and functions. by
tile penetrating power OF the raoiuh
rays.
The surgeon has given ten years 10
the study. Working with Madame
Curie. he was one of the pioneers, II
not the pioneer, in this country IN
applying radium to diseases.