South Australia - Health
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Cancer
Further information is in Geoffrey H. Manning's A Colonial Experience
Cancer "cures" are in the Advertiser,
21 June 1860, page 2g,
16 April 1906, page 4d,
Observer,
17 April 1875, page 14g,
26 June 1875, page 20g,
9 March 1878, page 11f,
Register,
15 February 1909, page 4b,
18 March 1922, page 6:.
- Boil fine Turkey figs in new milk, which they will thicken; when they are tender, split and apply them as warm as they can be borne to the part affected, whether broken or not; the part must be washed every time the poultice is changed with some of the milk.
Use a fresh poultice night and morning and at least once during the day, and drink a quarter of a pint of milk the figs are boiled in, twice in 24 hours. If the stomach will bear it, this must be steadily persevered in for three or four months at least.
A man aged 105 years was cured about six years before his death, with only six pounds of figs. The cancer, which began at the corner of his mouth, had eaten through his jaw, cheek and half way down his throat; yet he was so perfectly cured as never to show any tendency to return. Should it ever do so figs should be again applied. The first application gives a great deal of pain, but afterwards each dressing gives relief. A woman cured by this remedy had been afflicted 10 years; her breasts bled excessively; 10 pounds cured her.
"Tobacco and Cancer" is in the Register,
14 November 1882, page 5d.
"The Cancer Scourge - Smoking as a Factor" is in the Register,
3 December 1927, page 9f.
Also see South Australia - Social Matters - Miscellany - Smoking
"Can Cancer be Cured" is in the Advertiser,
26 February 1891, page 6e,
9 March 1891, page 7a,
"The Increase of Cancerous Disease" on
27 May 1898, page 4h.
"Cancer" is in the Observer,
19 August 1899, page 43a,
"What is Cancer" in the Advertiser,
12 August 1899, page 6f,
"Concerning Cancer" on
2 November 1901, page 6d,
10 February 1902, page 4d,
"Is Cancer Increasing" on
15 March 1902, page 6c,
"Fighting the Cancer Scourge" on
18 July 1903, page 10a,
"Hunting for a Cure" in the Express,
15 April 1902, page 3d.
"The Rontgen Rays" is in the Advertiser,
5 June 1896, page 5b; also see
12 May 1898, page 6h,
"Revelations of Radium" on
16 December 1903, page 6e,
"More About Radium" on
2 July 1904, page 6c,
"Radium and Cancer" on
7 January 1908, page 8e.
"Radium Discovery - Dr Mawson's Research" is in the Register,
24, 25, 28 and 30 November 1910, pages 8g, 6c, 8g and 9g.
"Wonderful Radium - Gift to Adelaide Hospital" in the Register,
11 February 1925, page 9a
"Bottled Radium - New Treatment for Cancer" is in the Advertiser,
4 February 1932, page 8i; also see
1 April 1932, page 18f,
"Radium and Disease" on
6 January 1912, page 5d; also see
12 March 1912, page 11i.
"The Origin of Cancer" is discussed in the Advertiser,
15 January 1904, page 4c,
9 November 1905, page 8e,
"Cancer and Corsets" on
16 July 1904, pages 6d and 8a,
"A Cancer Hospital" on
4 April 1905, page 4c,
"The Cancer Research Fund" on
28 August 1905, page 4c.
"Cancer and Alcohol" is in the Register,
30 July 1904, page 6c.
Also see South Australia - Social Matters - Temperance and Allied Matters - Alcoholism and Drunkenness
"Life's Greatest Foe" is in the Advertiser,
16 March 1907, page 8c,
"The Cancer Crusade" on
28 December 1907, page 8f,
"Cause of Cancer Discovered" on
30 October 1909, page 17g.
"Supposed Cancer Cure" is in the Register,
5 June 1908, page 5d,
Observer,
13 June 1908, page 50a.
"Cancer and Quackery" is in the Register on
27 July 1912, page 12c; also see South Australia - Health - Medical Profession - Quackery
"Cancer" on
28 September 1912, page 14f,
9 May 1913, page 4c,
"Cancer and Radium" on
9 January 1914, page 6e,
"Cancer" on
19 May 1914, page 6b.
"Fighting Cancer - An Adelaide Scientist's Work" is in the Advertiser,
10 July 1913, page 9a.
"The Cancer Problem" is in the Register,
4 November 1920, page 6c,
"Combating Cancer" on
22 August 1921, page 6e,
"Cancer Research" on
12 June 1924, page 8e,
"Radiation and Cancer" on
6 September 1924, page 10d.
"The Dreaded Cancer - Can It Be Cured?" is in The Mail,
19 August 1922, page 2f.
Also see Register,
15 and 18 July 1925, pages 8d-9e and 9h.
"Cancer and Diet" is discussed on
28 February 1927, page 8e,
14 and 15 July 1927, pages 9g and 9h.
"Violet Rays - The Treatment of Cancer" is in the Observer,
13 February 1926, page 19a.
"The Fight Against Cancer" is in the Register,
18 July 1928, page 8d,
"Cancer Research" on
14 September 1928, page 13a,
1 October 1928, page 10h,
7 November 1928, page 8c.
"Combating the Cancer Scourge" is in The News,
4 October 1928, page 6c,
"Anti-Cancer Campaign" in the Advertiser,
18 July 1929, page 16e.
"Cancer and Its Problems" is in The Mail,
20 and 27 June 1931, pages 9a and 9c,
4 July 1931, page 9d.
An editorial entitled "Cancer" is in the Advertiser,
18 August 1931, page 8g.
"Possible Nature of Cancer" is in the Advertiser,
22 October 1932, page 8g,
"Combating Cancer" on
20 December 1933, page 20f,
"Declining Cancer Mortality" on
17 January 1934, page 14f,
"New Theory of Cancer" on
14 July 1934, page 8g.
"Healing Rays" is in the Advertiser,
25 July 1934, page 21b,
"The War Against Cancer" on
24 September 1935, page 14g; also see
22 October 1935, page 14e,
"Cause and Treatment of Cancer" on
21 July 1936, page 18e.
