Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1889 — CALCINED OYSTER SHELLS AS A REMEDY FOR CANCER. [ARTICLE]

CALCINED OYSTER SHELLS AS A REMEDY FOR CANCER.

In a recent number ol t v e Lancet, Dr. Peter Hood, of Louden, refers to a communication of his published in the same journal nearly twenty years ago, on the value of calcium carbonate in the form of calcined oyster shells as a means of arresting the growth of cancerous tumors. In a ease which he then reported, that of e l«*dv nearly eighty years old, the growth sloughed away and left a healthy surface after a course of the remedy, »s much as would lie an a shilling being taken once or twioe a d>y in a little warm water or tea. He now reports another case es seirrhus of the breast, in the wife of a physician, in which the treatment was followed by an arrest es the growth and a cessation of tho pain, the improvement having new lasted for years, and no recrudescence having thus far occurred. He urges that the remedy can do no harm, and that the pnma faeie evidence in its favor is stronger than that on which, at Dr. Olay’s recommendation, the profession lately displayed an extraordinary eagerness to try Chian turpentine. He would restrict the trials to well marked cases of seirrhus, and insists that no benefit should be looked for in less than three months. *