Show RADIO DEClARED CONSUMPTION I REMEDY j Wireless Has T enden Tendency y to Calm Unsettled I Mind MINNEAPOLIS II Minn Fe Feb 2 p By U. U P. P P. Radio Radio is a a. Valuable ad adjunct adjunct ad ad adjunct to the treatment of tuberculosis losis and nd is of ot great therapeutic value In treatment of ot other hospital hos 1105 pi pital al cases in the opinion of or Dr Walter alter K Foley chief of the medical medical medi medi- cal service of the tho l V. V S S. S Veterans' Veterans Bureau lureau hospital No 68 Dr Foley who has been pre prescribing scribing radio for two yel rs years mi his assertion in a letter Jetter to foa a bros casting station here telling th th I personnel they hey are re re aiding toward towa recovery the service ex patients at the hospital He Ste revealed that more than 50 radio sets are r being used se in in th the h ii hospital and that when he a patient i enters h he is given the option 0 of receiving receiving re- re a set as part of his hospital equipment 4 A radio will do more to cure cura tuberculosis than any other r ap apparatus ap- ap para us yet devised said Dr Foley Our method is this A worried unsettled unsettled- state of ot mind is the biggest obstacle we wa have to fight in treatment of tue tu- tu e The only way a. a pa patient Jent may be cured is to be pu put pur to bed ed and give absolute rest In mind mind and and body He nay may be In be bed 1 from several sev sey oral eral months to a year or lr two and aud naturally when told this Is is' is discouraged dis dis- When of hospital hospital hospital hos hos- pital routine wears off he begins begIns' to worry about himself U the he fol folks s. s at home or his children Even If he has no rio family the sick man man can can always find something to worry about One of our patients spent hours in mental agony wondering whether the United Sta States es would Join th the league of ot nations Two years ago we had a a. pa- pa tient who worked himself into a a. mental frenzy with imaginary grievances He claimed his sheets were being starched starch d and that the he rood food 1 no matter how tasty was not riot good His Ills condition was rapidly growing worse One da day I installed a radio set at hid his bedside He be became be- be came interested at on one once and before long his mind was en entirely at rest under the radios radio's soothing effect He lie quit complaining end and started to recover He was recently dIscharged discharged dis dIs- charged as cure cured 1 This was the beginning of ot radio prescriptions' prescriptions at hospital 68 which resulted in the Installation loJ of tb the or more sets we now use Th The bo boys s 's now forget et their troubles troubles' with radio and often call me to their rooms to check on a hookup I think these radio calls do as as' as much nuch good as professional calls I would rather give a a. pa patient suffering from tuberculosis and other diseases as well a radio set liet than a whole handful of ot pills It does him more good |