Show I ITo I Poison Gas Now Used To Ease Cancer Pains i Nitrogen Mustard Gives Quick I Relief to Sufferers BOSTON Discovery that the World War II poison gas nitrogen I mustard can give dramatic relief I from suffering in some cases of cancer cancer can can- canI I has been reported to Radiological cal Society of North America In no kind of cancer whatever however has nitrogen mustard caused a cure or anything more than the pain relief Since the war 50 different kinds of this poison gas have been made by chemists and tested on mice in hopes of finding one that might do better or be less difficult to take So far ar two have been found that are arf about as good but not better These reports were wen made by several several sev sev- eral doctors from Memorial hospital hospi hospi- tal New York City In illustrating the relief from sufI suffering suffering suf suf- I fering Dr Lloyd F. F Craver said an elderly woman was brought to Memorial Memorial Me Me- morial choking to o death from pressure pressure pres pres- sure of a cancer on her windpipe Surgeons feared to operate Nitrogen mustard was injected into a vein in her arm and the cancer cancer can can- shrank so quickly that choking ceased Later she died but a more peaceful death I Results although they enly reI re re- I lieve pain were re r reported e C ing the hope that it may maybe be possible to find some chemical that will go farther and perhaps all the way toward curing cancers |