The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-06-01
Or. CASTOR odln Has Been Very Sue
ceseful in a Number OF
Cases he Has
Treated.
HE HAS OPPOSITION
Many Physicians VIII Not Believe In
His New euro But Arc
Watching Him
Closely.

respondent Of the United Press.l
PARIS, May 31.-A cure for cancer
has 1t been found? DR.. 1aaston Odfn,
a physician here says that 1t has.
Some months ago the story went
the rounds that cure for cancer had
been discovered and in spite OF the
fact that this was somewhere near
the milIioneth announcement OF the
same discovery, there was the usual
iflutter OF excitement.
Then it died down and the world
seemed to forget all about It. But
seemed to is all. The correspondent
has Just revisited DR.. Odin, the dis
covered of the alleged cnre to find
that he is anything but forgotten,
half hundred patients waiting to see
him in the ante-rooms of his huge
new location here. His old office is
long since outgrown.
DR.. Odin was seen in the consulta-
ton room. He had finished with
more than a score of patients already
and outside there were perhaps forty
more awaiting their turn. Small, but
earnest, and very much alive, DR..
/ Odin impresses one with the belief that
| he has utmost faith in his treatment,
while certainly the long line of wait
| ing patients would seem to testify
| that there are others who at least to
some extent, share that faith with
him.
For twenty years., DIR. Odin said
| In response to questions III have been
trying to find cure for cancer.
began when / started the study of
medicine and I never gave up the hunt.
Now | am satisfied I have succeeded.
"Of course can't cure every case.
Many cases, naturally. are past all
aid. I have cured many people OF
cancer and some Of them were pretty
| far along, but just as In surgery there
are times when it is too late to oper-
ate, so it is with my cure. II cancer
| is to be cured at all. treatment must
be begun before the blood is entirely
poisoned and the growth too adj
ivanced.
THE cancer germ Is hidden In the
blood and for that reason | am per
suaded that cutting does no good. And
| 1t is contagious, very OF course one
cannot contract cancer as one con-
| tracts typhoid fever, scarlet fever,
diphtheria or small pox, by single
+, exposure to a patient suffering of
the disease; but it may easily be
/ transmitted from one person to an
other. just the same.
1 ~ first succeeded in isolating the
cancer germ and studied 1t under the
/ microscope. next found a serum
fatal to the germ and 1t is this serum
which / am now administering to my
patients. | have number of Ameri-
can patients, one from Detroit, NIichi.
gan, just having been discharged.
cured. His name is w Butterfly.
4 The serum is administered by
means of hypodermic needle, usual
4 ly in the thighs or arms"
/ The correspondent talked with an
Englishman named C. R Hillyard, of
4 PUNISHABLE, Bedfordshire, England,
\ who had been taking the cure three
4 months. He was suffering of cancer
i OF the throat. He said when he start
i ed the cure his neck was enormous
and he could take only liquid nourish-
ment. Now, he said, he could eat prac-
tically anything he cared TOR. To the
eye Hillyard appeared perfectly we'll,
but there was still small place in
his throat unhealed, he said, though
this was rapidly getting smaller.
Another man, Frenchman, whose
name I did not get exhibited pho
tograph of an enormous growth on
the side of his neck and face When
the correspondent saw him, something
like one of those familiar, purplish
''birth-marks" was all that remained
iof the growth shown in the photo.
graph He was still under treatment
He stated that DID. odin had cured him
!. or at least had brought him to the
!; POINT at which the correspondent saw