The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-16
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 WILL RADITM CURE CANCER? :? lRy H, L1ndlahr. M.D. Author skrights reserved) Almost daily, newspapers and magazines bring articles, news items and discussions about the in- teresting element, radiun. The pro- paganda is so persistent and orderly that one Cannot help suspect the ar .tistic hand of the press agent Fac tions are forming in the medical pro fesaion for and against the use of the metalsin the streatment of cancer and other disease Prof Schweininger, one of the most prominent physicians n Germany, says radium treatment is a gigantic swindle. Others claim to nave produced within forty-eight hours narvelous cures of cancer by means the radium rays. The surgeons de- clare there may xbes some. good in the ra diunn treatment, but after all they say the safestz way lies in the5 early removal of tumors. by the knife
 The extravagent claims Of the gra- 7iufn advocates are bound to arouse new hope in the many thousands Of people all. over this country, who suffer from the dread cancer malady, and undoubtedly smuItitudes will try the new remedy. only to be- disap- pointed in the end. It seems cruel to kill the hopes of those who have pinned their faith on the miracle working power of the ra- dium but it is not right to give posi- ! tive assurance of cures, when E his method of treatment is sti1 in the period of dangerous Experimentation, and when it is a wel-xnown fact that malignant tumors tend to recur after local extirpation, within a period of 1.-two years. For this reason alone, it twill require several years to prove the 1 efficiency Sof radfum treatment. Fur thermore it is not right toN lead in qs1iry into doubtful and dangerous paths, when the only ratiopa1 and ieffectiye way has already been dis 1 covered and positively demonstrated.
 About ten years ago, the same pos l Hive and extravagent claims were made for the Roentsep- rays. Institu- tiens for x-ray treatment sprung up l all over the country. What has been < the result? It is now a we'll estab- \ lished fact that the x-rays instead o1 curing cancer, create it. Already, i evidence is saccumu1ating which indt- Icates that the radium en1anations are l just sas dangerous as the x-rays.
 I These agents. on account of their ! immense vibratory velocity and power are altogether too strong, and too de structive. for the tissues of the hun1a | body. Their work is slow and insid- lious but nevertheless. certain. The i perni cious effects Of the x-rayss do not I manifest until afew years after ex- I posure. have in my s1fbrary, -ovel T thirty newspaper clippings gathered kdurfng the last ten years, Which re, port the development of cancer like lgrowths after exposure to 1tfie x-rays Zone of the first victims was an assis- .ll stant of Thomas A. Edison. After re Ilpeated ex posture to the. rays in the 1H course of scientific experiment tation ! the. flesh on his body decayed, and fel I off in pieces, until death ended his Eterrible suffering. Thousands of other. Ihave suffered the. same fate but have failed to hear of single, well-auth ienticated case of cancer by the Roent lgen-rays.
 T Personally, [ know of several casei Fthat have come under my observation fwhere the application of these ray llsfor some Insignificant local lesion, wal followed by the development of cancer Hike decay of the flesh. and final death Lin one instance suicide.
 j The radium rays are just as power lfu1 as the x-rays, and while they ma. : ldestxpy the abnormal cells of the can T lcerous growth, they have also a weak Iening and destructiYe effect, upon tn normal cells of the Surrounding tissue land nearby organs Bzzt these de