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The whole process occupied twenty-two minutes and it 

 will be noted that the effect continued twelve minutes after 

 stimulation had been discontinued. 



I do not wish to advance even the shadow of a claim that 

 I have discovered the origin of cancer. It would indeed 

 be cruel to do so unless the fullest proof could be brought 

 forward in support. But I should be wanting in duty to 

 my kind if I withheld any fact that might upon further 

 enquiry be found to throw light upon the problem. 



When the cause of any particular disease is unknown 

 and its pathology imperfectly understood it may seem 

 empirical to suggest even a possible method of treatment, 

 as treatment should be the logical outcome of pathological 

 knowledge and not of mere opinion. But we have from 

 repeated observation obtained certain results and one 

 definite fact, i.e., the cancer cell in its devitalised condition 

 is non-conductive of nerve-current. 



Now when a poultice is applied in relief of an inflammatory 

 affection it acts, from an electro-physiological point of view, 

 by lowering resistance and enlarging the area of the path 

 to air and earth, so that with diminished neuro-electrical 

 pressure there is an amelioration of the unfavourable 

 sj^mptoms. 



In cancer, before it has broken down, one intelligent 

 measure would seem to be to restore conductivity to the 

 tissue and to open up a low resistance path to air and earth 

 by ionic medication. When the cancer is superficial, as in 

 the breast, I have witnessed its complete disappearance in 

 six weeks under the application of a pad of cotton wool 

 steeped in an ionic solution (1 mgm. to the litre) of Sodium 

 chloride. Recently an undoubted case of Carcinoma of 

 the breast which had resisted radium treatment, yielded 

 to ionic medication with Sodium chloride, followed _ by 

 hypodermic injections of an ionic solution of permanganate 

 of potash, with complete recovery. 



In this there is no proof, but some confirmation. In all 

 I have seen six of such cases and in all of them the remedy 

 proved successful. Theoretically metabohsm cannot proceed 

 if there is and while there is a disturbance of neuro-electrical 



