Never since I can remember has King Fog paid us such along and, I: may add, unwelcome visit as the one he has inflicted upon us this autumn, I am told that nine years ago matters were much worse, but I was not here, so cannot corroborate the statement; for the past. six weeks it has been the privilege of Londoners to see their way about town for perhaps four days in the week, but to feel it (if they eyn) on the remaining three. I am told, however, that there are compensations, as when the fog lifts" it carries away with it the germs oftinnumerable diseases, notably influenza. It will be interesting to watch the results after Christmas, when the complaint is usually most virulent. Just now the disease most under discussion is the one of all others most dreaded, Cancer and this because of a marvellous cure which is said to have lately been effected by the use of an_ infusion of violet leaves. it is stated that Tady Margaret Masham, sister of the present Parl of Romney. has for Fears suffered from this terrible disease. Fr her case it attacked the throat, which so baffles medical skill. After several medical then had. pronounced her recovery wireless, @ friend recommended her to "the Tiolet cure," of which the presoripsrs follows: Stake a handful of fresh our a pint of boiling Jet them stand in a {welvekours, when the water bright green tint. Strain id, dip a piece of soft lint in and apply frequently to the "After quite a few applications Ibisclsimed that Lady Margaret's condition well and most anxious to let fellow-cul-proved, and now she is perfectly forers know by what simple means the cure was affected. Though, of course, no one doubts Lady Masham's word, medical men have besa writing to the papers urging caation in the acceptance of the Dolicf that i was cancer from which she suffered. We are told that, quite n hundred Soars age, there was &. belief that the disease covid be arrested by this simple nos tram, but there is no record of any reliable cure traceable to its use.
The British Medica! Journal, commenting on the supposed "cure,"
The remedy has at any the merit of simplicity, and no secret is made in i ov. From the moral point of view, therefore, it stands on a higher plane than the nostrums of the quack. In respect of efficacy, however. all we can is no proof us st Specific for cancer has been found in the modest violet.
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