ABRAK'S BOX AND CANCER TREATMENT
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR]
SIR,—Lord Tavistock inquires whether, in view of the large amount of money being spent annually on cancer research and treatment, it would not be a good plan to spend some on the exploitation of the late Dr. Abram's methods. Lord Tavistock will probably agree that the fact of big spending holds no warrant for bad spending, and I think that the reason why the methods in question (of diagnosis and treat- ment) have not been adopted in this country is simply that there was no warrant for doing so. The claim to be able to diagnose cancer proved to be as baseless as the one to cure it. Lord Tavistock will be ready for the reminder that though nearly everyone who receives electrical treatment feels better after it, this sense of betterment is in itself no evidence of curative action. The country is spending large sums of money on X-ray and radium treatment for the simple reason that there is a warrant for it, witness the yearly publications of the Medical Research Council, Medical Uses of Radium Series, and of the National Radium Commission.—Yours
faithfully, SIDNEY Russ. 23 Gordon Mansions, W.C. i.
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