The statement with regard to the cure of cancer cases
at the Middlesex Hospital, supplied by Dr. Lazarus-Barlow, published by the Times of the 8th inst., and summarized in our last issue, has elicited a letter of remonstrance from the surgeons to the hospital, headed by Sir Alfred Pearce Gould, which appears in the Times of the 10th inst. The signatories point out that Dr. Lazarus-Barlow's statement was made without communicating with those responsible for the treat- ment by radium of patients suffering from cancer, and that it does not correspond with their experience. After giving the statistics of the number of patients, deaths, and dis- charges, they state: "Radium is being used by us in the treatment of patients suffering from cancer; the results hitherto attained, although in some cases striking, and in many cases hopeful, are not such as to justify the statement that in radium we have a 'cure for cancer.' "
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