Show Freaks and Oddities In Science N News A number of new developments in the use of or U oxygen for treating diseases have ha been brought broucht out recently In tuberculosis oxygen is useful for promoting the growth of healthy tissue It has the same effect In large burns bums which cannot be successfully successfully suc sue treated in any other wa way Diabetes pneumonia monia certain types of or kidney and heart disease and asthma and hay fever are benefited by oxygen oxygen oxy oxy- gen treatments A patient having a n very severe degree of heart trouble with dropsy drops on whom every known remedy was used unsuccessfully was put in an oxygen chamber which produced the first beneficial effect after which the ordinary remedies for heart disease were used effectively BH l A new tool of or importance in the control of oI r U agricultural production of or the future may be in the use of X-rays X or similar wave short vibrations Wild corn plants appear to have been changed from annuals to perennials at Cornell university university uni uni- uni- uni by treating the tho seeds with X And in accordance with experiments in various other places the evidence seems to be that under suitable suitable suitable suit suit- able conditions X-rays X do bring about a mutation I |