Cancer Treatment and Surgery
Hopelessness of Cancer.—An editorial in the New York World tells us that Dr. Robert Bell, formerly senior physician of the Glasgow Women's Hospital, says that "during fifteen years' experience as an operating surgeon, he has been unable to give a single success in dealing with cancer." This doesn't mean that they have died under the knife or immediately afterward; but it does mean that no permanent benefit has been derived from the excising of the disease by surgery. In a book on cancer, Dr. Saleeby expresses the opinion that the knife may in time be discarded. There are physicians who can cure cancer if they can treat the patient in time. Most of these are ignored or discounted by the regular profession because they do not do it in the regular way; but certainly with such a confession as that from Dr. Bell, one would be justified in trying what the regular practitioner might call quackery. It certainly would prove as productive of benefit, according to their own confession, as the present method of surgery. Dr. Bell suggests that the disease is amenable to treatment thru diet and the reclamation of the vitiated cells by means of a healthier blood stream.