Show ft ft ft o OoK oKY o oH O O O O oK K King Edward and the New X Ray Cure For Cancer B Hint Edward of at England suffer suffering ing from that dread disease can I IB ctr This Is R 1 question that has hll been agitating nil all Europe and Great Groot for tor several weeks in tact fact the hole holo world Is Interested In It There have been numerous de denials nials from authoritative FourC R but when It Is II recoiled rt that similar denials were forthcoming just prior to the tha deaths of ot Gen Oen General eral fral Grant Queen Emperor Frederick of at Germany others they are received with lIh somewhat t of ot suspicion clan cion Indeed many man well Informed peo people people abroad stem seem to think that they must mut have hao some foundation In fact and that tile the king Is III either cither suffering from I cancer In Its Incipient stages cr lr a 11 avery very eo condition of ot tho throat At A a n prominent figure In the world of oC Kins Edward VII II Is ta subject to the penalty of at greatness although not in himself the great alienist i UY y anything at all remarkable cannot prevent his private being dl by b the tho people at nt large Whenever anything be It Il ever M 1 1 In happens hapl ns to royally nil all the world Is I at once onoe interested ted Therefore such a IL report as this going forth from high i places place to the that Kin f Edward Is II suffering from an affection of or the tho throat that may ma be cancerous In char i acter renders It perfectly legitimate to Inquire at to the possible contributory causes of sUch cuch a malady either In his hili own lICe Ufa or the lives Iel of ot his ancestors Though tho facts collected by Insurance ance companies go to show that the danger from Inheriting cancer Is not so no great as u commonly corn manly supposed yet et the hold to the theory that It timy be and often orten Is a transmitted dis lIls disease ease case Going back then as III far In King Edwards ancestral line ns al tho reign of oC the tho tint of ot tho Georges es widening the scope O of or and taking lanco zanco of ot tho legacy of hate bequeathed by 11 that monarch to his descendants one cannot avoid the conclusion that the tho corroding vices Ices of the first George the unrestrained lons of George II n have exerted a 11 baleful Influence ence upon those tho o that followed after arter th m Though George III wa wu highly moral nil contrasted with his father tather and grandfather yet ret during the latter portion of long life of years he was hopelessly Insane while his erratic temper at nt times passing be beyond yond all restraint Is a II matter of ot his hili history tory George IV was both Immoral dissipated William L I who suc aut succeeded him wan Willi equally vice Ico ridden und and left to his country countr ft 1 burden of lu In his numerous illegitimate hu hll hudren dren Ills His niece Victoria as all the world recognizes was 1811 a n model of vir domesticity ns liS wai WI her husband the prince consort In tact fact Ice and tho tendency to It seem to have havo skip skipped ped every cory other generation In the Brit British ish royal line for tor the tho past 00 years ears and to have appeared only ani intermittently As s to tho life led by tha tho present king when Prince of Wales rumor has hila fully full outlined Its character and the deduce deduc deduction tion may be fairly made mallo as to whether Its It II general trend was wal contributory to health or to While there may bo no taint In his ancestry traceable to the disease per er se lie seand and only a IL basis basil for hypothesis It Is I different when his hili Immediate relatives arc taken as 1111 subjects of Investigation It WAD only a R little more than a 11 year car ago for Instance or In July Jul 1900 that his hla brother Alfred duke uke of Ed Edinburgh and of or Gotha died of heart failure by cancer of the tongue A year ear later In 1 1 his sister the empress dowager of Germany passed away the victim of dropsy accompanying the same The malady malad which caused her death had Its begin beginning ning ten year previously and brouGht her Intense suffering but did not threaten to bo be fatal until November of last year Sho was laII unable to leave her couch when Victoria was Mas at nt the oK o Q point of death last January and could not go ro to her though the anxious moth mother er was constantly asking In her con can conscious moments moment Why Wh docs not Vicky Icly come ome There Thu seems to be an nn opinion that the dowager Empress Frederick l may mn have hae contracted the disease during her long vigil by the side aide of ot her hi i banJo band who died of at cancer of or th tb it after aCter having been only three months I emperor of Germany Now It Is t leport ed that King Edward l Is going to spend nd a II portion of ot the winter nt lit Pan un Homo on tho in the name MIne Villa which wa as lant occupied by the Crown Prince Frederick tram from which he de departed parted to be crowned emperor in 1888 The cause of ot affection de declares declares clares a great authority has been tho of ot Investigation for tor many many man year ear but seems to be veiled In Inas as III much uch obscurity as 8 over ever Tho older believe that a n certain or constitutional vice so alters the humors hUl ors of at the body bod that can cancer cancer anti and other tumors make their ap nl appearance authority also states s that heredity may play playa a part In pro producing cancerous affections No man manor manor or woman in fact may ma be exempt from Its It I but perhaps the strongest tendencies toward the disease spring from hereditary he red taint Applying tho deductions from these generalisations to the royal personage mentioned in inthis this connection the Inference would seem to be natural that he may mB be suf suffering fering from this most dreadful of ot all While it has hall been held up to within a n afew few years rears that there Is II no radical euro curo for cancer except tho knife and this In Inmany Inmany many has hall been proved a a failure there Is II a growing belief in the efficacy of ot the X rays ra as IS a n germ destroyer and probably a palliative If It not cure for 10 oOt C o oI D cancer It is a germicide acting upon the tho tissues tissue by b liberating oxygen anil antl forming ozone and Increasing the red corpuscles by stimulation thui thu promoting ing the vitality of or the blood Suffering humanity will be cheered by b the belief bellet that at a 11 cure has hns been bc n found for cancer for M so far ns as experimentation has sed it seems to toha have ha I effectual ual In several In anti and noted notel have ha e de declared In liB Its favor tavor Great Grent advance has be n made maae In this direction tion tho deaths of ot the Emperor Jm rorI Frederick I and of ot General Grant who were both hoth victims of the came tUno terrible trouble ono one In the throat the other at nt tho root of at tho tongue Many now living will 1111 recall the lung long I and heroic that General Grant underwent at nt Mount McGregor In At first the trouble appeared only ns a i of the roof of at the mouth which developed into the cancer that his death It was tho belief nt that as It U 11 largely now noll that In cancerous cases where Internal or dell elite cate are attacked besides merely palliative treatment should be bethought beI I thought of Surgery has often been heen ap appealed app pealed p aled to but only more as a means for tor averting Immediate dissolution than with on real hope hOIl for n a radical cure If It the X ray nI cure be all Its rates claim tho discovery or rather the application will be hailed with Joy Joyall JO tilt all over oer the world ALLAN |