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A Revelation To Britain
·A ̈luncheon was given yesterday Restaurant by the Prince's Royal Central Asian Society in honour of the International Ex.
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FRENCH SCIENTISTS CANCER TREATMENT
THIRTY COMPLETE CURES CLAIMED
Serum To Be Tested By Doctors In London
-Loudon, Dec. 7. persons more or less near death and zivan up by physicians, surgeons, and radiologista
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"I have registered ten mires, or
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There are nine cases in which a such," he goes on.
very marked improvement achieved still under treatment); three patients were so gravely af Alicted by the disease that I could only give them progressive treat. ment. We have begun, in the same technical category, tuberculosis re- search work. The results obtained are even more satisfactory. In the near future our work will centre upon leprosy research."
A serum which, it is claimed, will | cure cancer has been discovered by Hevels and is to be tested by Eng- be French biologist Dr. Louiz
lish doctors next week. It is Mr. Laurence Binyon, proposing aimed that thirty cancer patients the cast of the exhibition, saldhave already been completely cured the exhibition was already a re- by the now method, which is en velation to the English public, ashusiastically endorsed by a number to Europe, of the Beauty, variety, of distinguished French iloctors and distinction of the art of Chipa. Dr. Antaine Pacetti, of Paris, is Le was a revelation because this art already in London in connection had been so imperfectly known or with the demonstration of the treat understood and because no such ment and he will be joined in array of choice works of Chinese few days by another Paris doctor art had ever been brought to-
Dr. Pacetti. yesterday showed a gether. Yet let them not forget reporter some of the records
patients treated by the new method that this country was by no means and told now the discovery came to without treasures of the kind. be made. For twenty years, he Many of the very dnest things aid. Dr. Revelis has been seeking exhibited bronzes, Jades, gold a remedy for the disease. Now dis work, sculpture, paintings, ceramicsnguished French physicians are -were from the Eumorfopoulos giving testimony to the remarkable "collection. Now that this superb success of his method with human collection had been added to the patients. These patients have beeu already rich Chinese collections in treated with a arushed solution
taken from the marrow of inoen-blood. eigr two great national museums,
lated rabbits, as well as '% fërkimi we might pride ourselves on the btained from horses which have fact that even when the precious received cancer bacteria infections loans from other countries had They have, it is said, been brought gone back to their owners next back to abundant life after death evring, there would still be in Lon-had threatened them. don a representation of Chinese 44 VERITABLE KESURRECTION" art surpassing any "collection in Europe.
velis has a vaccine that possesses Dr. Le Play emphasises that Re- not only preventive but curative qualities,
Dr. Revelis says that his investi. gations have led him to the conclus sion that cancer is caused by micro- bic elements. He has revealed these not only in the marrow of the bones but also in the tissues and the
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The bacillus develops in those parts of the organism known as Dr. Pacetti referred to documenta #igned by French doctors who despots of lease resistance.” But he must also remind them cribed cases they had trested with EXPERIMENT ON HIMSELF that though Mr. Tumoriopoulos r. Revelis's method. One, detail- Reuter's. Paris: correspondent re parted with his collection to the nd by Dr. Frugier, of. Paris, said calls the recent visit to Paris of nation, which he had already en- sak one had the impression of Lord Granard. chairman of the riched with magriffcent gifts, at witnessing a veritable resurrection" | Board of Governors of the Cancer a price far below its real value, in a 13-year-old girl called Rene Hospital, for the purpose of seeing only half of the purchase money who was suffering from conjunctive Dr. Revelis, and says that as a re had been paid. There was still to sarcoma (cancer) of the right thigh,ult of these consultations the ence was in a terrible condition, | Cancer Hospital arranged that, a pay what, if it were for an engine of destruction. and slaughter, ating little, of waxlike complexion. French doctor mould go to London would be accounted a trific, but and in a state of semi-stupor and to treat three patients by the Be since it was only for the delight great pain, Bhe took no interest
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Since May of this year, it is stated, prominent French physi
As the result of three years' re- cisas have treated altogether-60 search, Bir. Selby Maxwell, of the cases by the new method. Almost | North Western University, Evani- all the persons thus treated were ton, Lil, believes that he has ases which had been given up as evolved a principle for the as hopeless. It is claimed af: 30 kronomical computation of the complete and certified elinien) oures weather," by which; he says, ""you have already been effected, while, im can predict the world's weader two the 30 remaining cases progress has years in advance with the same ca been recorded.
you night predict a storm for Dr. Andre Gourlist, medical dir-to-morrow.
"It appears," writes Dr. Frugier, that one has the right to regard the child as saved, wherese abe had been abandoned by everyone.”
Several other cases are quoted, including one described by Dr. A Le Play, of Haris. Mr. By aged 58, discovered in June, 1834, that he had cancer of the oesophagus gullet). He could only swallow Play's words "a skeleton, a shahoma, has applied the Revelis me- dow." Revelie's treatment began thod with success to more than perfected a "magnetometer which instantly records the pulsations of vn June 1, 1935. After siz days & twenty varied and advanced cases, the earth's magnetic field, to which general improvement was noted, including cancer of the stomach. the atmosphere makes corresponding and he could swallow normally. Experiments will probably be He took up his normal life again made in the United States a well changes twelve days later. It is on June 30 and by Inly 15 was as in London Negotiations have based on the fact that the relative pronounced cured and eating been opened with two of America's motions of the san, moon and sarth
foremost wellay philanthropists palls on the earth's magnetic field
are irregular, resulting in varying down for our minds. We wererything "
Since May this year Dr. Le Play for the establishment of a special He explained: "That causes the brought to see things from a fresh angle, and to discover that there says he has treated twenty-two cases foundation for the application of atmosphere, which is like z fluid, to were things which we ourselves had of various forms of cancer, "all of the new treatment. not discovered. We did not need to depreciate the West in order to appreciate the Fast; but Chinese art, which might stand as the chief representadve of the art of Asia, refreshed, and enlarged our con- ception of what art was and of its
with difficulty sad was, in Dr. Letor of a leading Faris nursing To aid his computations he has
relation to lie. -
CHINESE GOOD WILL
slosh hack and forth over the earth. just as water will slosh about in a
moon's
It is based on the fundamentai bring sanses, thought, and feeling apparent because Chinese art was law of physics that when yon vary the human spirit as a whole, to These cumulative effects were pan when the pan is jarted" into a single harmony; and we fall mature and vigorous induence and the position of say one of thres ed to see Nature as a whole. Chi- symbole of the creative force magnetic poles you vary the field nese art, whatever Its deficiencies which animated the manifold ac- of strength of all of them. from our point of view, did seem to tivities of China's present national LITTLE SNOW THIS WINTER express a saner and serener outlook reconstruction amid unprecedented He pointed out that the sun, What was it we could learn from " than ours, a completer vision of dificuldes. From the effect of this moon and earth form a continually Chinese art and gendus? When one life, a vision in which there was no art they realized that the Chinese changing triangles
"The thought of European painting and room for our small greed and self-were fundamentally a pacific orbit, is exceedingly irregular; the called up the long way of its aggrandisement, and in which we people. It was not in the themes un is for ever tugging at the moon. masterpieces, how great a part realized our true pince in the in- of war and battle that the emotion trying to pull it away from the saemed to be played in it, by the finitely complex universe.
of the Chinese artiit found ex- vartli; the earth resists the pull of element of portraiture-portraiture.
the sun on the moon, and a sort of pression, but he derived his inspira- ad man, and women and also of the
tion from the love of humanity, the rasmic war gOGE DIS
It causes a motion of the earth's things and the places belonging to The Chinese Ambassador. Who contemplation of Nature, and an whole mass, which in turn makes them; how dominant was the pride replied, said that behind every understanding of man's place in the the atmosphere alosh about. This of life, the assertion of personality, treasure the Chinese Government universe. The ideal of peace and is the primary cause of the the splendour of human activity had sent to the exhibition they had vietne was one which China upheld | weather 'kan deng and enterpriNE.
all the good will of the Chinese persistently even in the darkest Mr. Maxwell's magnetometer by. Portraiture in our sense was little : nation. That good will, he was goirs of her radional History - ealtivated in, China. “ But there glad to know, was abundantly re- enme into his, mind a certain por ciprocated in the enthusiasm of the trait, that of Wang Wet famous | British public's response to the poet and painter of the eighth manifestation of China's artistic century. He chose to be painted eminence. General in Hankow, has beeA microscope aimed at the target with his hack to the spectator, altThe exhibition war designed to transferred to Hong Kong and he ting in a chair and contemplating flustrate within the compass of the and Mime, Leurquin will be leaving the landscape How characteristic Royal Academy the continuity of for the Colony early next month that was how symbole Let them China's cultural development durM. Blondeau will be returning to from leave, as the new think of our illustrated papers ing more than 30 centuries. As Hankow Which of the famous or ephemeral their minds travelled from one
her ly eminent would choose to be por group of exhibits to another they Mrs G. E Tucker and
* that Chinese artistic: youngest daughter, Fat could see trayed, like tha
from Aba But there
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the e
Hinnous, and far from statie Above spend Ch were turned outward to the beauty. All thes, cheid baS ON- Ute
MJ. Leurquin, French Consul
sal to
which he messures the fluctuations of the earth's magnetic field con friste of a bar iron magnet suspend
ed by a thin wire spring to which is attached a target to reflect light discloses its almost impercep movement.
this
As it result of his studies Mr. Marwell predicts juzusuall owfall in the United Ste winter.There will be abou month's knowfall, which me good shows" during the winter,
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