Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1914-05-08
is RADIUM A FRAUD?
French Scientist Declares that Such is
the Case.

French Scientist Declares that Such is
the Case.
The recent article about radium as a
cure for cancer, written by DR.. Paul
Decrais, who paid a tribute to the
American radium experts, Drs. Abbe
and Kelly, evoked a response few
days ago, from DR.. Eugene Doyen, who
is regarded as Frances greatest bac-
teriologist since Pasteur, and is also a
great surgeon and cancer specialist.
DR.. Doyen read the article and i'm
mediately offered an interview to ex-
press his hostility to the radium treat
ment Despite occasional criticism by
his brother physicians that his meth
DDS are unorthedox, his high position
and brilliant record compel attention
to him and his views.
DR.. Doyen asserted that radium was
absolutely useless for the cure Of real
cases of malignant cancer and that
where the radium treatment had pro-
duced Improvement the case was only
a superficial cancroidaiesion, capable
Of similar improvement by different
treatment at an infnitesimal fraction
Of the cost Of radium.
He challenged the radio-therapists
to produce a single person cured of a
real cancer. He concluded with the
sensational statement that radium was
nothin but gigantic fraud, practiced
on the public and the medical pro-
fession by unscrupulous financiers.
Identical With Burn, He Says.
DR.. Doyen said:
81 have established by experiment
that the effect of radium and similar
rays is physiologically identical with
the ordinary burn; in fact the much
wanted emanations, while partly elec-
trio, are chiefly little else than ordi-
nary heat rays. How can heat cure a
disease of such malignancy as cancer?
Second, even supposing that it
could, why not employ it in some vast
ly cheaper manner?
"On introducing radium tubes into
the centre Of the tumor, sometimes the
tumor appears to collapse and de-
crease in size, even partially cicatric-
sing. Such an effect is only due to
heat
Never in my experience, either per-
sonally or otherwise, have / seen an
authentic case Of cancer thus cured.
Fully 100000 persons have been thus
treated in France during the last ten
years. Can you realize the Importance
Of the fact that no one person was ac-
tually cured Of clearly established
and real cancer by the radiothera-
pists?
Alleged Cure Did Not Prevent Death.
Here is a case in medical publi-
cation, illustrating the radio-thera-
pists methods. They say they cured
a young woman of genuine cancer and
have the audacity to state that the
fact of the cure Of the cancerous
growth was established at the AUTOPSY
for of course, the girl died. That is
the radium- cured cancers result:
"Or consider the case Of the Ameri-
can congressman, r. G. Bremmeri suf-
fering from unmistakable cancer. He
was treated in a vastly expensive
manner by radium, Mr.. Bremmer died
as we'll as all patients so treated must
die, and l am prepared to challenge
contradiction.
II am willing to go so far as to state
that a physician, continuing to employ
radium for a long period is either
abusinC public confidence or is culpa-
bly, ignorant. / am willing to state
that the majority of such physicians
are nothing but charlatans-function-
aries employed by persons or societies
desirous of making sordid financial
gains from the exploitation Of radium.
Overwhelmed With Offers to Buy.
II have been overwhelmed by offers
to sell radium from interested inter-
mediates My colleague, Professor
Modlinsky Of Moscow, had not been in
Berlin one day before he was besieged
by persons anxious to negotiate the
sale of mesothorium, a radioactive
substance.
II will state openly that radium Is
an internal fraud, operated by ignor-
ant or dishonest persons, and causing
incalculable harm to the suffering; 1t
is also the most cruel Of frauds owing
to the hopes it raises in persons DOOM
ed to ultimate death.
Holds Out Hope for Sufferers.
Cancer sufferers, however, need not
despair utterly. A system of electro
thermic treatment of cancer, combin-
ed with surgical eXtirpation by COM
petent operator, has produced genuine
cures
II can demonstrate the success Of
the system, which is called electric CO.
agulation, from the fact that cancer
Gus cells coagulate under the influence
of electric heat just as the white of an
egg coagulates when heated, by pro-
ducing cured patients with a full his
tory of their cases and explicit details.
II can produce many such, but l
defy the radio -therapists to produce
one.
LAS regards the American radio the
rapists, l can make no statement from
direct personal knowledge, but my
opinion of the futility Of radium must
apply equally to them.
Il think it fact that Americans
are accustomed to do innumerable
stupid things for the sake Of a new
thing, but time will teach them wis
dom and justify my words"
I'll Distance lends enchantment to the
view, especially when we view the peo-