New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-27
College Professor Declares
Surgery Had Failed to
Benefit Him.
MINERAL KILLED TWO
PATIENTS, DOCTOR SAYS
r.us House Committee That
treatment Is Fatal in Many
Cancer Cases.
- RI. rrlsune Rureau.l


washington. Jan. 26.--James c. Gray
s-st cancer victim who has given
..,,,onv on the curative properties OF
&C., and the man who has had more
s,ur, applied to him than any other
80 person. appeared before the
- committee on Mines and Min
today and told how he had been
..res from the grave by the wonderful
mineral element
NJ GRAY. who is secretary and gen.
= counsel for the standard Chemical
',.-roarv Of Pittsburgh, and who has
-, for seventeen years vice-dean and
-.,,essor Of law in the University Of
p.,,sburSh. cited his own experiences
an argument for free and unham-
..-.s competition in the production u
.ssiur, BY commercial interests.
q stand before you" said Mr.. GRAY.
"a the man who has had more rsdiuin
..-,isd 10 him than any other living
--son have had $4,000 millgram
torrs' treatment The second largest
/ sossrs Of radium OF which we have
-.,ord is 81. 800 milligrsm hours.
Knife Failed TO Cure.
II was operated on three times in
..vsn months last year. AT the end Of
i -. first operation I was told by one OF
re most famous physicians in Phila-
ssl7hia that the knife had cured me;
M, the growth came back and was
.,mpelled 10 undergo a second and
1 ,oually trying operation. And then,
u addition. I was given an X-ray
treatment.
The application OF the X-ray burned
-. badly: was horribly tortured. At
/ ,ss4 time I did not know the real nat
,ra Of nv malady. When I asked the
i surgeon II it was a malignant growth,
bs replied: II you mean cancer-no"
i EFT Philadelphia with the under
handing that It would be only short
i fms before 7 would be completely well.
"A few months ,ater. while I was in
London. the growth returned, and
hurried back 10 the United States to
consult the physician who had oper-
sted on me. He was away on vaca-
ton. and was told that, since the
growth had rogressed so far, I might
] & well wait until he returned, IN Sep
4 amber. Then, in Pittsburgh, 1 heard
about the radiura treatment and was
4 able TO get the radium.
Radiur7's Effect Prompt.
1T was applied. as I have said. IN
rrsst quantities. Almost Immediately
he malignant growth was checked.
ne radium penetrated the mass and
began 10 press il against the tender
flesh inside the wound. One Of the best
surgeons in Pittsburgh watched the ap-
pHcation by the radium expert.
AT the end Of a few weeks this sur
4 econ took me to the West Penn Hcspi-
tai. and there. merely by exerting a
pressure with his fingers. removed the
4 csncerous growth. I have every rea-
son 10 believe that I stand here to-day
permanently cured Of q cancer that
could not be checked by the surgeons
knife.
And there is a point in my case that
wish 10 emphasize. The radium was
applied only twice by the doctor. On
every other occasion the treatment was
gwen me by Mrs. Gray. She would
strap the tubes on my back at night
and remove them IN the morning.
And this comparatively great guam
Try Of radium used on me az night was
Used on several patients by day. AS
natter Of precsution 1 continued the
treatment after the growth had been
removed. I had a final application OF
q Fsdium IN Pittsburgh a few days ago,
& Just before coming to Washington 10
testify"
Two Patients Die from Treatment.
Dr.. william H. Campbell. director Of
he Radium Clinic Of Pennsylvania,
iod the committee that radium as a
cure for cancer is still in an expert
mental stage. and that its use in the
treatment Of internal cancer results
Aially in a large percentage Of cases.
we can tell" he said, that radium
dEntegrates the tissue of the cancer,
lgt something is created in that dis
appearance which is absorbed by the
Wood and kills many patients"
How many patients have died as a
result Of your treatment" asked Rep
usentstiye Byrnes, Of North Caro-
ina.
Dr.. Campbell said that two out OF
I've Of the cases treated ended fatally.
ne added that in these cases the dis
'sse would have resulted in death IN 4
lev months without treatment.
simply feel" he said. that / Just
@oYed those patients over a little bit
,aicker."
Dr. Campbell said that at the present
"oe Of radium the cost 70 patients
'gat not TO be prohibitive. Il can
al patients at four cents a milli-
ssn Of radium an hour on an invest
1ent Of $1,000 and double my money
"a year" he declared