Valdez daily prospector., 1914-04-17

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 Robert G. Bremner. member of con- gress from New Jersey, has become the center of interest of the medical world. Physicians and surgeons are waiting to see if the greatest trial ever made to cure cancer by means of radium. the most powerful and scare est known element, Is successful.
 Representative Bremner. in whose case President Wilson and many close associates in Washington official life are interested. has suffered for sev- eral years from malignant cancer in the left shoulder Operations have failed to check the insidious disease. and recently Mir. Bremner was forced to carry his affected arm in a sling The cancer had made Its way over the shoulder until 1t almost met under the arm.
 How Radium Was Administered.
 In last desperate attempt to save his life and establish the exact status of radium In the treatment of such a serious case the congressman submit ted to treatment by pr. Howard A. Kelly of Baltimore One hundred thousand dollars worth of radiuln was placed in the growth in Mir. Brem- ner's shoulder by Dr. Kelly and was left there long enough to send its radio active properties in cross fire through the cancerous growth. The operation was repeated the following day. Dr. Kelly put the radium in eleven tubes. coated with rubber. and these tubes. each about two and a half inches long and about one third of an inch in di- ameter were planted in as many In cisions made in the cancer on MT Bremner's shoulder. It will be five or six weeks before the result Is known.
 In order that cancer victims hopes may not be raised higher than actual results warrant. pr. Kelly has an nounced that radium Is not A"spec1nc cure for cancer and that 1t Is effective only when there ts ns wide d4ssemina- ton of the diaease.
 Verdict Remains h Absyanes.
 While about a dozen reports of re markabls "eures'' pf cancer by the ase of the metal have osen made ny physa clans and surgeons of repute iu the last six years or 50. medical men sdli hesitate to assert without reserve that an infallible means of combating the disease has been found except perhaps in the superficial type of cancer.
 Nevertheless some remarkable cases have been reported.
 The New York American quotes Dr. Abraham Jacobi. eighty three years old and a renowned specialist. as follows:
 About seven years ago epithelioma. or cancer of the skin. appeared on the left side of my nose. It pained me greatly. l was Op the point of having 1t removed by surgeon when decio ed to try radium. then in its first blush of heralded success.
 "Three applications were made. one of three minutes, one of four minutes and one of seven A short time after the final treatment was entirely cured"
 The Government interested.
 Should the treatment cure Mir. Brem- ner action may he taken by congress looking tu the preservation of pitch blende beds of Colorado. from which the radium producing ore is obtained.
 At present the ore is found In Colo rado. Dr. Kelly. with others. has ob- tained much of the iand. and there are experiments going on in which the bureau Of mines is lending its aid. The bureau will take charge 0f the extraction of iridium from the ore and will begin work in few months m Denver in new laboratory which is being built with money furnished by the National Radium institute.
 All the sxpenses of runninG the plant are m he paid by the Radinm inst. tute Under the agreement with the bureau of mines. the institute b t0 send all the extracted Iadinm to the