The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1916-11-23
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.

treatment Of cancer by selenium has
been announced In medical publica-
tions by DR.. Charles II. Walker, of 327
West Elghty-slxth 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 cure, but he firmly be-
lleves 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 q New York Tribune
reporter. "ln many Of them dag
nosis had shown beyond all question
the patient was a cancer victim, and
in few was there much ground for
doubt. I can safely say in no case
was there total failure in favorable
results from the use Of selenlum.
Believes Cure Was Made.
"Some of the patients were near
death when first saw them, and 1t
was possible to do nothing but relieve
little Of their pain. In other cases,
said by specialists to be beyond help,
/ believe there has been a permanent
cure. If selenlum will only relieve
pain II is worth using, and IL 1t will
cure, the treatment should be thor
oughly investigated"
Sulfo-selene, a combination of sui
phur and selenium, the compound DR..
Walker uses, was worked out in CO.
operation with DR.. Frederick Klein, q
biological chemist, of this city.
In 1911 DIR. Walker came to the con-
clusion, upheld by eminent authorities
on cancer, the disease was not due to
germ, but to certain peculiar con-
dition in the body, which might be cor
rected by treatment with chemicals.
Experiments with selenlum were be-
gun and have been continued the last
five years.
First Clue to Treatment.
In a report published in "The Medi-
cal Record" in 1912 eminent surgeons
stated the remedy for cancer might
well be chemical substance.
at has long been the opinion of
thoughtful students of the subject" "
says the report, "that local treatments
for cancer, however, necessary as
makeshifts, have been based on mis-
conception. 1t is quite possible, for
example, that X-rays or the fulgura-
ton treatment may benefit super
flcial cancer at its point of origin, but
the danger of such growths lies largely
in their spread to distant and inaccesi'
BILE vital organs, where local treatment
is impossible.
1--WE believe Ii, therefore automatic
that scientific remedy for cancer
shall be one soluble in the blood
transmissible by the blood and lymph
currents to all parts of the body, and
possessed of selective affinity for the
cells of the tumor to be destroyed.
"Such remedy may quite conceiv'
ably be a chemical substance existing
in the outside world, and by happy ac'
cldent discovered to have the desired
properties"
DR.. Francis Carter Wood, director OF
the Crocker Cancer Research Fund
speaking on the laboratory study OF
the causes of the disease at n meet.
ing of the New York Academy OF
Medicine last May, said 1t had been
established, almost beyond question
that cancer was not germ disease
nor in any way allied to germ dis.
eases.
Dieting a Necessary Aid.
"Dr. Klein and myself have prob.
ably not found the final chemical form
in which the use Of selenium will be