The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-05
SUPERHEATED AIR
MAY CURE CANCER
Or. Bell Of Battersea Hospital
Claims Much for New
Treatment.
MIRACLES AT LOURDES
Mgr. Benson Tells Of Strange
Recoveries-Gossip in Lon
don and Paris.
MIRACLES AT LOURDES
speciai Correspondence 10 The sus.

a Cure for Cancer" was the subject Of an
address delivered the other day by Dr.
Sell in the Cancer research department
Of tho Battersea Hospital. Up to 1908
Dr. Bell relied solely and not without
success upon dietetic, hygienic and thera-
pcutic treatment. lie then employed su-
pcrhoatud air as local application. the
treatment being supplementary to his for
mer methods.
since the Cancer research department
AZ Battersea has been In working order
II has been possible, no says. to demon
strate how the important supplementary
treatment OF heating up tho generous
growth operates.
The knowledge thus gained" said Dr.
Bell. ais bound TO prove OF supreme i'm
portance, as 1t has placed beyond doubt
the fact that the cancer cell Is unable
10 survive II retained at Il temperature
of l15 deg. to 100 deg. for few min
utcs at a time. tho application OF the
heated air being repeated at intervals
under pressure OF from three to four
atmospheres, so that it may be made
TO penetrate tho diseased mass.
The result apparently Is that the VI
tally OF the morbid cells is gradually
destroyed. these cells subsequently becom-
ing absorbed. n must, however, be clearly
understood that this result can be as
sured only II the disease Is dealt with
IN the early stages of its development
Three patients have been dismissed
completely cured. Therefore Il in the
early days of the appearance OF the dis
case patients will consent to present them
selves for treatment we may, with con-
rdence look forward to the time when
cancer will not be looked upon AZ an in
durable malady."
nr. Langdon's discovery Of pre-
Semitic version OF the fall OF man and
the Hood. an account OF which was cabled
TO THE SUN this morning, is OF the utmost
inheritance in Biblical archaeology. No
Bahylonian account OF the fall has
hitherto been known, and II Is curious
that in this version 1t Is Noah not Adam.
who Is tempted to eat OF the tree of
Ne.
The account of the flood Is described Us
Clearly the original OF that preserved In
tht book OF Genesis. but the differences
are 50 fundamental as to suggest that the
common source of both has yet to be
found"
The table, on which this find was made
came from the early library OF Nippur,
which was destroyed during the inva-
sion OF Babylonia by the Elamites In
the age Of Abraham. and IS now with o
number Of others In the museum at Phil
edelphid. In October OF last year DR..
l@u-don visited the museum and copied
the Inscription of about fifty tablets OF the
Nippur collection. The inscriptions are In
humcrlan, cuneiform alphabet OF the
pre-Senitic inhabitants OF Babylonia-
The tablet now under consideration Is
srt'rd with hymn to Nimtud. who In
Rabylonian legend Is the greatness of man.
Tho hymn contains I q Babylonian version
Of the food. and ~ contrast with the
Famous "Chaldean account of the deluge,"
discovered by George Smith In 1872, II
agrees with the Biblical account In the
name OF the patriarch who was saved
rom the catastrophe by reason OF his
p.cty, II further agrees with the Biblical
narrative IN making him a gardener" or
agricultural, and in the duration-nine
months assigned to tho food.
Inc namc of the patriarch Is given rs
Tagtog-Semitic Nuhu. II Is related that
after the food Noah became like the
gods which Is Interpreted to mean that
no received the gift OF extraordinary lon
gevity Tho version says that Cannes
tine Babylonian for the god Enki, the
water god taught Noah the secrets of
things and revealed TO him the wisdom
possessed by the gods. With this revela-
uon the tablet breaks OFF. II Is notable
''"' tHlo E'Ne!hlfOn OF WISDOM IL relateu
oy Berossus, the Babylonian historian,
VINO wrote in the time OF Nebuchad-
nezzar.
After break In tha inscription there
occurs the remarkable story OF the :all
OF man, tho punishment being the loss OF
eternal life or OF longevity because he
ate or the tree OF life. The story includes
contention between the creatures Of
man. Ninharseg or Nimtud, and her hus-
band. EMIL.
The Identification OF tho cassia with
me tree OF life Is significant. The cassia
~ tho most important OF all medicinal
plants OF antiquity, and hence may have
AIlsen tho notion OF the cassia as a tree
GIVING eternal life. The conception OF
the tree as the tree of knowledge" is
peculiar 10 the Hebrew
IN some Babylonlan texts the cassia is
oAled the tree OF the serpent and II Is
possloIe That tho broken section which
begins the tablet narrative may have con-
esaned the scene OF the temptation.
German Ia writing a series OF I'm
gressions OF London" In the KolnLsche
1e'trno In which he says some quite
example:
one would have to be blind not TO see
,lat tne English are a good looking race
Me english In general, and he perhaps
nnoro 30 than She II Is true that one
80 very pretty girls in London. some
"nes sven extraordinarily beautiful ones.
ahd al elegant afternoon teas many OF
.hese d'stlnguee girls OF whom even the
natives tell me that they represei in the
ssresate undeflnable beings, not "a be
paced In any category.
, nut when tho English woman In ugly
s sne,e can be no doubt about II.
Visible strkingly visible. II the man, and
handsome, convincingly handsome. man.
=, no IS young or old, had almost added.
ii ne Is good looking or ugly. Let me ex-
pam this paradox. II is actually the
Ass mat the Englishman may be ugly
aiu yet remain the good looking person of
"hon have spoken. What T. the cause
ot thatY Well, principally because 1t is a
question or the good looks OF the race,
Sncn are represented by types whose
lnnlVidual perfection is not Of such very
great import.
. AZ the beginning of my stay in London
Hau thought to notice that the English
Hl"h was characterized by bowlegs Sub
sepuenuy the very reverse. namely, his
slralsht limbs, impressed me, and / was
rather confused when ] endeavored 10
solve this contradiction. Now I see that
oowlegged Englshman attracts ones
notice. simply because the straight limbed