Arsenic & Cancer

An apparent cure of a case of bone cancer by means of arsenic warranted reporting in the current issue of the Canadian Medical Association Journal. A Toronto woman, Mrs. R-- F--, had a cancer on her left thigh bone. High voltage X-ray treatment for eight months produced no observable good.

Dr. Arthur Clinton Hendrick, Toronto surgeon who was handling Mrs. R-- F--'s cancer, decided to cease X-rays and try intravenous injections of colloidal metallic arsenic. His good friend, Professor Eli Franklin Burton, University of Toronto physicist, had originated the preparation of colloidal arsenic. Putting the stuff into Mrs. R-- F--'s veins was a risky business. Arsenic, used medicinally to improve the blood's condition, is a poison. The woman with cancer in her leg approved the risk. Three months later the broken bone mended itself. Today, a year & a half after beginning the colloidal arsenic treatment, "the patient is in good health, free from pain, and is carrying on her usual household duties."

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