Bridgeton pioneer., 1914-01-08

q $125 milligram. A gram at q
g this rate is worth SIPS, 900. z
3 There are only six or seven 3
G grams in the world, and of these Z
Nine. Cuvie. it's discoverer, owns q
g 23. q
3 A pennyweigbt of radium at &
z the market price is worth 1884, 3
8 400 AM ounce Of 1t at this rate 9
z would be- worth $3,88SO0O. 3
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Robert G.. Bremner, member of CON-
sress' from New Jersey, has become
the center of interest of the medical
! world. Physicians and surgeons are
waiting to see IL the greatest trial
ever made, to- care cancer by means Of
. radium. the NEST powerful and scare
est known element. is successful.
Representative Bremner. in whose
ease President Wilson and many close
associates in Washington official life
are Interested has suffered for sew
erai years from malignant cancer in
the left shoulder. Operations have
failed to check the insidious disease,
and recently Mr. Bremner was forced
to carry his affected arm in a sling.
The cancer had made it's way over the
shoulder until It almost met under the
arm.
How Radfunr Was Administered.
In a last desperate attempt to save
mis- life and establish the exact status
of radium in the treatment of such a
serious case the congressman submit
ted to treatment by DR.. Howard, A.
Kelly OF Baltimore. One hundred
thousand dollars worth of radium
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 I'm a cross fire through
the cancerous growth. The operation
was repeated the following day. DR.
Kelly put the radfum i'm eleven tubes,
coated with rubber. and these tubes,
each about two and a half inches loag
and about one-third of an inch in. di-
ameter. were planted in as many in
cisiens made in the cancer on Mr..
Bremner's shoulder. 1t 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. DR.. Kelly has an
nounced that radium is not d specific
cure for cancer and that it is, effective
only when there is no wide, dfssemina-
ton Of the disease.
Verdict Remains In Aheyancs.
While about dozen reports of re
markabIe "cures" of cancer by the use
of the metal have been made by physi-
clans and surgeons Of repute in the
last six years or so, medical men still
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 DIR.
Abraham Jacob, eighty three years old
and renowned specialist, as follows:
about seven years ago epithelioma.
or cancer Of the skin. appeared on the
left side of my nose. 1t panied me
greatly. / was ON the point of having
1t removed by surgeon when decid-
ed to try radium, then In it's 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 Mr.. Brem.
ner action may be taken by congress
looking to the preservation OF pitch
blende beds of Colorado. from which
the radium producing ore is obtained.
At present the ore is found in Colo.
RADIO. DR.. Kelly. with others. has OBJ
tanned much OF the land, and there
are experiments going on in viii
the bureau of mines is lending its aid
The bureau will take charge Of the
extraction of radium from the ore and
will begin work in a few months in
Denver in new laboratory which is
being built With money furnished by
the National Radium institute.
All the expenses of running the plant
are to be paid by the Radium insti
tute. Under the agreement with the
bureau of mines the institute is to
send all the extracted radium to the
Memorial hospital in New York and
DIR. Kelly's hospital in Baltimore. to he
used in the-treatment of cancer cases
The Radium institute philanthropists
have agreed on their part to give free
applications of the radium to all can
Ger applicants. None of the radium Il
to be sold.