Show THE WONDERS OF RADIUM about the best that we have come across recently along the line of the wonders of radium is given below as published in the gilpin county observer of ce central city colorado one of the reasons that colorado gets so much free publicity is the unbounded enthusiasm of some of its editorial writers and the lack of any fear of exaggeration which all colorado mining men seem to have if you can beat this let jet us have it the startling and wonderful results in ill the cure of diseases by radium is still in its infancy and scientists are not alone in studying its wondrous rouff progress but the untutored minds of the people who are fortunate enough to live in this favored agar garden of eden are making an exhaustive study of the earths crust and the emanations that are daily cast off from its surface with the result that some of the phenomena are perfectly astounding for instance a man living in leavenworth gulch whose house stands directly over the calhoun mine one of our best radium producers was stricken with appendicitis before a physician was called his case was beyond hope even beyond the hope of transporting to a denver hospital for treatment A council of the best surgeons in central city was called and their findings were that death was inevitable and an dp operation was performed without hope as it revealed that the appendix X was in such a decomposed state that the stench was almost unbearable and gave the patient but a few hours to live the radio emanations cast off from the earths surface penetrated the patients wound and in a few weeks was perfectly healed and today the man is perfectly well and performs heavy laborious work in a mine daily another instance is that although quartz Quart 7 TH bill the cajer G sr of the radium belt is well populated it has not had a death in the last fifteen years also that the miners from nevadaville Nev adaville who have to walk across quartz hill to russel gulch are not afflicted with miners consumption brought about by gases in the mines also that the horses used to haul ore from the quartz mines are not afflicted with lameness and the wild mountain sheep seek this hill as a retreat to cure tile the foot rot As years roll around and the science of this wonderful element is developed gilpin county will be the mecca to which the worlds afflicted will turn |