In many instances one could not cure. The difficulty was not so much to know exactly how to cure cases of cancer which were cured, as to what in the name of heaven prevented the cure in those cases which were not cured. Mention had been made of Professor Sambon. When Professor Sambon visited the London Homoeopathic Hospital, he gave an address on this all-important subject of cancer and stated that in certain places in Italy everybody was full of cancer. In the place where Mussolini was born everybody in the village died of cancer. This village was a long straggling hamlet extending for about 1 1/2 miles, with houses on each side of the road. Cancer cases were in the houses on one side of the road only. Dr. Sambon had not had the slightest doubt that the cause of that was that clinically there was a demonstrable infective material which produced malignant disease. If homoeopaths could be sure of that and deal with the prevention of cancer on those lines, a very great deal could be done as a basis for what homoeopathy could do with regard to the treatment. Dr. Burford desired all homoeopaths to be quite clear that it was the duty of every one of them to treat every case of cancer by homoeopathic measures. Until quite recently he personally had never been sufficiently bold for that. But he had been instigated to burn his surgical boats and to follow precisely the homoeopathic method by the example of Dr. Clarke and Dr. Cooper. He was entirely at one with the views of the late President of the Royal College of Surgeons, Sir John Bland- Sutton, who, when he had visited the London Homoeopathic Hospital, said in reply to a question, “Within fifty years cancer will be a curable disease-not by surgery. We shall know better how to use the fighting powers of the system for the protection of itself.” That was the creed of homoeopathy.
