Announcement was made to-day, {that the United States Public Health [Service will watch the treatment of hundreds of cancer patients with fadrenal extract, with which Drs. Walter Coffey and John Humber, San Francisco physicians, have already treated hundreds of suf-{ferers under the close observation of many leading California physicians, The discoverers of the extract have repeatedly announced that they put forward no claims for a cure, The extract "apparently eliminates pain and causes a sloughing of the jeancerous growth" but the discoverers believe it to be entirely, Worthy of eneful study and further All treatments are being gives free, The discoverers ave declining to commercialize the extract, Lead-
1 physicians are cooperating in the work.
Meanwhile trains are daily ing sufferers from all points to Francisco for treatment, The discoverers have announced that they are establishing clinfew in Los Angeles, Portland, Santo Barbara and Seattle to treat all }who may come with non-operatable eases, and permitting: all physicians who care to attend to observe the. work.
The two physicians who discovered the extract are physicians of the Southern Pacific Railroad Hospit fand the railroad is paying all expenses incident to the treatment. While the patients themselves. lseribe the treatment in glowing terms, the entire press is treating the matter with careful regard foe journalistic ethics in not arousing hopes which may prove unfounded, and it is observing great caution reporting all phases of the affair—United Press,
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