El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-17
new ERA TN
TREATMENT
OF CANCER
Discovery Of Madam Curie
Is Scarce Article and Very
Costly.
UNITED STATES is
TO CONSERVE SUPPLY
Not Enough Radium Now
Mined in World to Supply
Need of Science

w AsHINGTON. D. c., Jan. IL
w Radium viii cure cancer. And
Americans are on the verge OF
allowing its precious deposits of carno-
tite ore, now the principal source of the
strangest Of metals. to be shipped abroad
for the benefit of foreign institutions.
Franklin h. Lane, secretary OF the
interior has informed congress that It
should act and act quickly. The treat
ment of representative Bremner, OF New
Jersey, who Is suffering from great
diseased mass that surrounds one Shout
der, has enforced the warning.
Fortunately most of the deposits OF
carnOtite are still government property.
Even should the private store OF cores
be sold abroad in the highest market,
the people of the United States, Of
whom many are over the age of so, are
Tor were) doomed to die OF cancer, have
still an enormous amount OF raw mate
rial with which to work.
Radium viii cure some types of cancer,
It may cure all. Every bit of radium
in the hands of physicians in the United
States works "A hours a day at saving
life but still can only reach one out Of
thousands
Probably no medical discovery has
ever so excited the nation as the recent
announcement of certain cancer cures
much touted turtle serum for tubeTeu-
losis, the public has been ready and
eager to believe, though seeming miracles
are related.
Must Reduce the Cost.
The United States not only needs &c
save its public radium treasures from
private exploitation. Millions are needed
to set up plants where the ores may be
put through the 15G steps necessary to
eliminate the tremendously tiny proper
ton of the healing salts. And, too.
money is needed for experimentation.
Some of the best processes for extracting
the radium are secrets. ieal0uslY guarded.
withheld as water might be kept from
a tortured indian captive. New processes
OF extraction must be perfected. The
cost of radium must be brought down
from its present altitude Of S3,600,000
an ounce.
But even if that remains the cost. "a
dunn must be had The mere TACT that
cancer cases have increased Is percent
in a short time assures this. Human
life is not to be measured in dollars.
The man who has brought Americans
to their senses on radium more than
anV other one person is DR.. Howard A.
Kelly. the celebrated Baltimore surgeon
To him, after Nine. CUrie, the woman
discOverer, is due the credit for the
fected and those to come.
For 10 years DR.. Kelly has been care
fully experimenting on radium. For 10
wears he and his associates have care
fully refrained from public utterance Of
q sensational nature. But now he Is
convinced of the power Of Tadium IN dis
ease. Moreover he sees a great emer-
gency.
It is to save patients BY the Thousand.
where he is able to save them singly IN
his private hospital at baltimore. that
he has now come forward. He tells Of
his repeated cures simply to impress the
public with the greatness of the emer-
geneY.
Physician Cures Himself.
If further proof of the efficacy Of IA
dium were needed, it was given the other
day when the venerable DIT. Abraham
jacob, of New York, one of the worlds
celebrated SPECIALISTS. told the story Of
his own cure. he was attacked with
a cancer of the nose, which defied all
his skill gained in so years of practice.
Three treatments with radium eradieated
the disease.
DR.. Kelly and his associate, DR.. Robt.
Able, of New York. told the Philadel-
phia College of Physicians recently of
curing serious cases Of cancer in 48
hours.
AEA4La4 " OlAlA GU4EAf
Another case" said Dr. Able, "Was
that Of & very rich Mexican woman. She
was so rich indeed that everybody in
Mexico CITY was in awe of her. The
physicians in terror said, She has can
Ger, don't tell her By not telling her.
they permitted her case to become so
aggravated that when she was brought
to me, I hesitated to operate. But I
did operate and then applied radium.
which like a million knives went into
the roots of the disease and cut it as
no knife could. And the woman was
cured and IS well to this day, four years
after the operation
Lane Sounds Warning.
Secretary of the intreiOr Lane said re-
Gently:
There appears to be in the United
States les than two grams Of radIum,
that is less than One-quarter of an ounce
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