Show celandine for cancer lately a new cure for cancer hns been described iu the journals in the shape of the application of a watery extract of the great celandine majus a plant familiar to every botanist the extract is administered internally ter nally and also by hypodermic injection dr denisenko a russian physician is the advocate of this treatment which however has not been found efficacious in the hands of certain other experimenters still there i no reason why the remedy should not be tried in appropriate cases it is not a secret rem edy BO medical sensitiveness need not bo wounded by the suggestion that it should t least be tried curiously enough mr 0 leeson prince in nature gives quotations from works of date 1491 and 1644 showing that the celandine was used in medicine in those davs while later writers express surprise that the plant has fallen into disuse the 1491 extract speaks of it as a cure for cancer and the later quotation describes it as correcting vile and pernicious bodily humors london illustrated news |