Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-08-12
HOSPITAL IS SEEKING
CURE FOR CANCER
Two Million Fund II Sought for RE-
search worl,-Radi TO he Used

Two Million Fund II Sought for RE-
search work-Radium TO Ne Used
New York, Aug. a-Evidencc that per-
manent relief can be brought TO super
fcial cases Of cancer through the use OF
radium was offered yesterday by DR.
George Stuart Willis, In charge OF the
radium clinic at the New York POST
Graduate Medical School and Hospital.
Goth street and Second avenue.
The Post Graduate, whose laboratories
for research and chemical diagnosis are
considered second only to those Of the
Rockefeller Institute, despite the fact
that the institution derives only $4,000
year from endowment. Is conducting
100000 endowment fund campaign. On
the success Of this drive depends in
large measure the future Of the radum
research work being carried on there.
TO BUY s1aoooo WORTH
The hospital is already specializing In
the treatment Of cancer with the radium
needle and with increased funds, a part
OF which Is proposed to be spent in the
purchase Of one gram of radium valued
at s12o,0Oo, It Is hoped that the work can
be carried on until permanent cures have
been effected in even advanced cases
In the proposed expansion of it's fight
against cancer. the postgraduate is or
ganizing a radlum research board. which
has already begun negotiations for the
purchase Of the gram Of radium. Accord
ing to scientists. the life In the gram OF
radium Is practically unlimited.
The endowment committee OF the post
graduate, Of which Or. James T.. McKer-
non Is the chairman, ia deeply interes ed
In tho radium research work and partc-
, ularly in the application of this myster-
o,ie element In the treatment Of cancer
and other malignant diseases The re-
markable progress made thus far by tho
Post Graduate radum clinic. even though
! II hns been hampered considerably by
| limited resources. has encouraged the
medical members Of the endowment COM
mtttce to believe tina. the discovery Of n
permanent euro for cancer IL not A great
way off "Perms nent relief has already
been achieved. the Post-Graduate s7e-
cial'sts say. and the permanent euro Is
looked upon MS the next step.
| OPEN CLINIC TO PRESS
| In order to let the public know what 1:
being accomplished through the use Of
radIum in the treatment OF cancer ant
other diseases akin to It. the Postcard
uate hospital yesterday opened its reFu
| lar weekly rajium clinic to members Of
the press
| The clinic claims no marvellous cures
but review yesterday of 20 patients hav
ing various degrees OF cancerous srowth'
seemed to prove that the radium treat
ment has succeeded and brought relic
where surgical operations have failed, o.
merely delayed temporarily the return
| Of the deadly disease.
| Twenty eight physicians and nurses at
tended yesterdays session Of the radun
clinic and after viewing patients under
going treatment and hearing DR.. Willis
lecture. they were permitted to ask ques
tons and had explained TO them the us
Of the radum needle.
Several cases reviewed by the clinic yes
terday were ones in which relief had beel
achieved where 1t seemed completed.
hopeless. and where the science Of tn
surgeons knife had been exhausted.