Evening Star Newspaper, March 10, 1931, Page 21

PLANTO ESTABLISH CANCER CLINICS HIT Controversy Over - Coffey- Humber Treatment to Reach Peak in New York Hearing. BY LEMUEL F. PARTON. Bpegial Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, March 10—A national | controversy in medical and lay circles ove- the Coffey-Humber cancer treat- ment comes to an issue here today, with | & hearing before the State Board of Social Welfare on the application of the sponsors of the treatment for permission tb establish clinics in New k. While Eastern medical opinion is mo- | § bilized against the San F.ancisco phy- sicians, they claim the backing cf a number of leading coast physicians and | B cite the patent records to show that Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, wrote a letter to the Patent Office urgirg expedition in granting the patent. Dr. Wilbur had examined the findings of clinical researches on the|§ coast. Dr. Walter B. Coffey and Dr. John B. Humber announcad their method in San Francisco early last year. Dr. Cof- fey is chief surgeon of the General Ho ital of the Southern Pacific Railroa: hile he inisists that the first a nouncement was made in a county me ical journal, the gencral public first learned of the method through a -colo ful story in a San Francisco new: paper. Dr. Coffey denied later that he was in any way responsible for this pub- leity, but since then, he says, he has found medical opinion inc: ingly hos- tile. California Clinics Opened. Capt. Robert Dollar, the steamship magnate, and other wealthy San Fran- eisco citizens, supplied funds to estab- . lish the “Better Health Foundation” on the coast. The foundation open:zd clinics at San Francisco, Los.Angeles and Long Beach, where thousands of persons have been trea@d. The records of these treatments and their resuits| will constitute an important detail of the evidence in today's hearing. Dr. Coffey, while insisting that he does not claim a cure for cancer, offers clinical | records to show that in nearly 80.per cent of the cases treated, malignant tissue was sloughed off. Mrs. Grace Hammond Conners, widow of William J. Conners, Democratic leac- er, newspaper publisher and ship owner of Buffalo, appears as an eager cham- pion for . Humber and his proposed New York clinics. She and the two San Francisco physicians are attending today’s hearing. - Mrs. Conners an- nounced last October that she had given her $1,000,000 country estate, the Mon- astery, at Long Island, to the Better Health Foundation for a cancer clinic. She als> volunteered to procure $500,000 toward the support of the clinic. Personal Study of Clinics. “I went to the coast and made a personal study of the Coffey-Humber clinics,” said Mrs. Conners today. “I was unable to judge from the conflicting opinions of doet<rs, so all I could do was to ask the patients whether the treatment was helping them. They said 1t was. “I have had many pitiful letters from cancer sufferers asking me to help them. When I observed that the Coffey- Humber clinics were not accepting a cent of money from any one, and when I saw the treatments were being admin- istered by regponsible physicians Who were enthusiastic over the results, I concluded that this was a splendid, humane undertaking which ought to re- | ceiye support. Opposing the request for a New York | permit for the clinics are Dr. John A.| | Hartwell, president of the New York Academy of Medicine; Dr. Gordon Heyd, | president of the New York County Med- ical Society; Dr. Francis Carter Wood, | director cf the Institute of Cancer Re- search of Columbia University, and Dr. Clarence E. Little, managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. (Copyright, 1831.) PINEY BRANCH GROUP ASKS STREET REPAIRS | Association’s President, E. B. Hen-| 4 derson, Raps Education Board as Unresponsive to People. Adoption of a resolution urging the resurfacing and other improvements to sections of several streets in its terri- | tory featured a meeting of the Pincy Branch Citizens’ Association in Ham- He Methodist Episcopal Church last | ight. The sections of streets included in the resolution were Delafield place be- | tween Georgia avenue and Thirteenth | street and another section of Delafield | place lying between Fourteenth street | and Piney Branch road. Similar im-| provements were asked for Emerson street between Thirteenth and Six- | teenth streets. i Edgar B. Henderson, president of the | association, presided at the meeting. | Mr. Henderson in a brief talk eriticized | the Board of Education, declering it | as not been responsive in anyway to the desires of the people.” He urged that the Distfict Commissioners be | given authority to appoint members of | the rchool board instead of having that ! power in the hands of the justices of | the District Supreme Court as at pres- | ent. | — | { t. Patrick’s Day Favors and | Novelties | Most complete assortment in the city. GARRISON'S 722.i5c.. 1215 E St. NW: Cuticura Healed Severe Itching Burning Eczema “Eczema started between my It broke out in blisters that itched and burned severely and spread over both hands. When I scratched the blisters would break and then form sore eruptions. 1 could not put my hands in water or do my regular work without my hands hurting terribly. At night 1 could not sleep. 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