HOMOEOPATHIC CANCER RESEARCH


Every seventh adult is destined to die from this devastating malady. Its ravages have steadily multiplied. It advances without pause, sparing neither age, nor sex, nor business, nor profession, in its deadly annual toll. The Commission requires a substantial endowment for maintenance and extension.


THE profession of medicine and actually the whole kingdom are becoming more and more perturbed by the repeated reports of the Registrar-General that cancer has become among us a decimating our civilization, and, unless arrested, there will in a century be neither city nor civilization to tell the story of their decline and fall. Sir George Newman, the Principal Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health, reiterates each year the story of the deadly peril in his Reports.

Every seventh adult is destined to die from this devastating malady. Its ravages have steadily multiplied. It advances without pause, sparing neither age, nor sex, nor business, nor profession, in its deadly annual toll. It has taken the place of tuberculosis as the greatest killing disease, and now, in much the same position, exercises much the same deadly over-lordship as did that malady before the advent of Pasteur and Koch.

OF ITS ORIGIN WE AT PRESSURE KNOW LITTLE.

As lethal as the deadly advance of cancer itself is the atmosphere of fractional and imperfect knowledge of its being and doing that we possess. of the ultimate or final cause of cancer but little is known. Various enunciations of individual views have emerged from darkness to light during the last century, but none has stood the test of time and criticism.

Whether regarded as of germ origin; or as due to a radical defect in the bio- chemistry of the cell; or to a preceding innocent change (pre- cancerous state) from which it has drifted; each of these, assumed to be a full scientific explanation, has had its day and has ceases to be. Sir James MacKenzie declared that ” we must know more of the laws of normal life ere deviation from the normal can be explained.

OF ITS PREVENTION AND CURE WE KNOW SCARCELY MORE.

What then of its Prevention and Cure? Confessedly these powers are in general conspicuous by their absence. Nine out of every ten physician deny that there is any cure for this plague. Surgery in general has proved but an ineffective stop-gap-a broken reed. Nearly 60,000 sufferers passed away last year in this country alone, destroyed by this dreadful malady, and such is public feeling in the matter that probably most of these sufferers has undergone operation.

Radium and X-rays have also been brought in to aid as helps in time of trouble. Of the former, one of the Chief Medical Advisors of the State asserted last year that ” We are greatly disappointed in Radium”. X-rays has proved a double-edged weapon.

HOMOEOPATHY– A LIGHT SHINING IN DARKNESS.

What is Medicine doing to stay the increasing ravages of this destroying angel ? The great profession of medicine is as a whole paralysed by its pessimism concerning the treatment of cancer. The only scientific exception is homoeopathy, which has repeatedly protested against the despairing view that this malady is incurable, and therefore none need trouble to try.

Some very brilliant curative work was done by Doctors Compton Burnett, J. H. Clarke, R. J. Cooper and others. Result professional ostracism.

Of late a Cancer Commission (Homoeopathic) has been at work in London and the certified results of homoeopathic treatment in a limited number of cases have been astounding. So assured are these that there is every inducement to prosecute further research enthusiastically so as to increase knowledge of how to go to work, both with a greater percentage of success and with greater economy of time. This method of treatment carries no risk with it. Patients do not succumb to the remedies used.

At one of the recent meetings of the Homoeopathic Cancer Commission, beside other cases, there were shown two patients who had been under homoeopathic treatment for some time whose progress had been eminently satisfactory.

Case I. was that of a clergyman, aged 53, who three years previously had been operated on for a mass of sarcomatous glands in the right groin. The operation was locally quite successful, but a few months afterwards on attempts to swallow acute discomfort developed over the left clavicle and contiguous sternum.

His physician sent him to an eminent radiologist in Harley Street, whose verdict was that the mass obstructed the passage of food and was in all probability cancerous. The patient had lost 12 stone in weight up to date, suffered acute distress area, and had received, as he termed it, ” sentence of death” from the specialist.

He now as a last resort came under homoeopathic treatment which was steadily continued for a year and a half. During this time he paid two brief visits to Switzerland after some influenzal attacks. Finally, at the time of his appearance at the Commission his experiences were thus summarized by him: ” I have regained the 12 stones of lost weight, the inability to swallow has vanished, there is no local pain or swelling about the chest or elsewhere.” On enquiry as to the ability to actively live and move and have his being, he looked up at his interrogator and said “I was able to put through seven church services yesterday.”.

Case II. This also was that of a clergyman. He was unknown to patient Number I. and of a different faith. The patient was aged 42, and his ill health had commenced some years previously, and was of the nature of a swelling in the region of the gall bladder and duodenum. The tumour was of considerable size and was adherent to the surrounding tissues.

Rectal examination showed a definite irregular enlargement of the prostate gland. His main trouble was local discomfort and tightness across the ribs on the right side. The patient resided in a large town north of the Trent. As the best local opinion on his condition had not been hopeful he was sent to London for further examination and treatment.

He was received into hospital, was carefully examined by the senior staff again and again, and finally dismissed as an inoperable cancer case, after repeated X-ray examination. At this juncture he also came under homoeopathic treatment. He had lost two stone in weight during his illness.

There was some sense of obstruction at time of stool, and occasional diarrhoea with loss of appetite. He complained of a local burning sensation and had an obvious and diffused yellow tint of skin. Also he had some difficulty in commencing the act of urination.

Under homoeopathic treatment he slowly but steadily improved and went, late in 1928, to reside in the country. Now he commenced living an outdoor life until he was thrown from a motor cycle by a vehicle, and taken at once to the Hospital at Aldershot. He was found to have sustained a fracture of the skull. He was kept in hospital for several seeks. The hospital authorities carried on the same scheme of dietary as before.

His progress was continues, and he continued under homoeopathic supervision for several months. He was seen by another physician with the writer early in the current year.

He was to all intents and purposes a healthy man, and could, so he said, put through his clerical duties as head of an institution without let or hindrance. He came up to town recently to show himself, and opportunity was taken to submit him to inspection and criticism at one of the meetings of the Commission at the same time as the previous case was shown.

REQUIREMENT: MORE RESEARCH, AND AN AMPLER FINANCIAL BASIS.

This method of treatment of malignant disease requires the most intensive study and research to develop its possibilities. It is by far the most promising of all the modes, surgical or medical, in vogue for overcoming the disease. The Commission requires a substantial endowment for maintenance and extension.

Building extension may ultimately requires some L5,000; research work, to be adequate and continuous, ultimately L1000 per annum under a whole time director possessed of skill and experience. But his is nothing to the enormous sum lost to the country year by year by an annual holocaust of nearly 60,000 killed by malady that knows no mercy.

What is requisite and necessary in the immediate present is a series of ten ladies and gentlemen each subscribing L100 to constitute a Research and Maintenance Fund for commencement.

The following sums have already been promised or received;.

1. The Right Hon. the Earl of Dysart .. L100 (conditionally on the total sum of L1,000 being promised, or paid, within three months).

II. Sir Robert Perks, Bart. (paid) .. ..L100

III. Mrs. Melville Wills, of Clifton (paid)..L100

IV. Mr. Wynne Thomas, of Bromley (paid) ..L25.

FRIENDS OF HOMOEOPATHY, BOTH LAY AND PROFESSIONAL– AWAKE !.

Into your hands at this time is committed the paramount duty of furnishing the sinews of war for this great campaign.

New knowledge of vital importance of this many-sided problem, chiefly as concerns causation and cure, and most important of all, of prevention. The goal is within our sight, and almost our reach.

The present treatment of cancer is far from satisfactory, although the dangers connected with operations for it have disappeared, and its earlier removal has somewhat prolonged life; but when one looks back over twenty or thirty years, and recollects all the cases of malignant disease that one has seen operated upon and the results following, one is obliged to admit an immense amount of failure and constant disappointment.

George Henry Burford
George Henry Burford 1856-1937. Senior Surgeon and Physician for the Diseases of Women at the London Homeopathic Hospital. He also served as President of the British Homeopathic Society, President and Vice President of The International Homeopathic Congress.