Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-11-30
CANCER RELIEF
IN SELEN|UM,
DOCTOR SAYS
Drug Treatment Is Used On 200
Patients in Five-Year
Test.
MARKED SUCCESS IS SHOWN
Physicians Believe Cure May Result
from Experiments by New Method
Local Treatments, However,
Necessary as Makeshifts,
Have Been Based on
Makeshifts.

New 1Ork.-MQrked success IN the
treatment Of cancer by selenium has
been announced In medical publica-
tons by DR.. Charles H. Walker, of 1927
West Eighty-sixth street, this city. Sc
lenium is a powerful chemical which,
taken internally, in capsules, has re-
lieved suffering in many cases and in
others has effected an apparent cure.
DR.. Walker, however, does not say
he has found a cure, but he firmly be-
lieves the treatment is worthy of q
thorough trial.
II have treated in the last FIVE years
more than two hundred cases." DR..
Walker said to a New York Tribune
reporter. I'm many of them dag
nosis had shown beyond all question
the patient was q cancer victim. and
in few was there much ground for
doubt. I can safely say in no case
was there q total failure in favorable
results from the use of selenium.
Believes Cure Was Made.
"Some of the patients were near
death when l first saw them, and it
was possible to do nothing but relieve
a little of their pain. In other cases,
said by specialists to be beyond help,
l believe there has been a permanent
cure. If selenium will only relieve
pain 1t is worth using, and If 1t will
cure. the treatment should be thor
oughly investigated"
Sulfo-selene, n combination of sui
phur and selenium, the compound DR..
Walker uses, was worked out in CO.
operation with DR.. Frederick Klein, a
biological chemist, of this city.
In 1911 DR.. Walker came to the con-
clusion. upheld by eminent authorities
on cancer, the disease was not due to
u germ. but to a certain peculiar con-
dition in the body, which might be r
rected by treatment with chemicals.
Experiments with selenium were be-
gun and have been continued the last
five years.
First Clue to Treatment
In a report published In 'Tle Medi-
cal Record" In 1912 eminent surgeons
stated the remedy for cancer might
well be a chemical substance.
ut has long been the opinion Of
thoughtful students Of the subject"
says the report, shat local treatments
for cancer, however, necessary as
makeshifts, have been based on a mis-
conception. 1t Is quite possible, for
example, that X-rays or the fulgura-
ton treatment may benefit a super
fetal cancer ut Its point of origin, but
the danger Of such growths lies largely
In their spread to distant and inaccesl-
Bile vital organs, where local treatment
Is impossible.
ave believe 1t, therefore, automatic
that a scientific remedy for cancer
shall be n soluble In the blood,
transmissible by the blood and lymph
currents to NIL parts of the body, and
possessed of q selective affinity for the
cells of the tumor to be destroyed.
"Such a remedy may quite conceiv-
ably be n chemical substance existing
in the outside world, and by happy ac-
cident discovered to have the desired
properties"
DR.. Francis Carter Wood, director Of
the Croker Cancer Research Fund,
speaking on the laboratory study of
the cnuses Of the disease at q meet
ing Of the New York Academy of
Medicine last May. said 1t had been
established. almost beyond question,
that cancer was not a germ disease,
nor In any way allied to germ dis
eases.
Dieting q Necessary Aid.
"Dr. Klein and myself have prob
ably not found the final chemical form
In which the use Of selenium will be