Cancer and Electricity

The first experiments were not conclusive, but they were promising; working for the U. S. Public Health Service in a Harvard laboratory at Boston, Dr. Joseph William Schereschewsky rubbed tallow on the legs of mice until experimental cancer developed. To those mice he applied high frequency electrical currents and in 30 mice the cancerous growths subsided. Other mice the current killed, Dr. Schereschewsky thinks, because he did not know the curative current frequency. But he is not certain. There may be other factors.

Last week Dr. A. M. Simpson, of the U. S. P. H. S. Surgeon General's staff, asked the House Appropriations Committee for funds to follow up this research. The Congressmen promised him ample money.

Albert Fuchs (Chicago financier) offered all his wealth (more than $2,000,000) for cancer research, on the day after his wife died of cancer in Pasadena, Calif. Mrs. Fanny Richter Fuchs, famed pianist, made her debut in the U. S. under Walter Damrosch, retired from the concert stage several years ago because of ill health.