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Show C0L0ES CURE DISEASE. Frankfort (Germany) Cor. Chicago Tribune. Trib-une. A St. Petersburg physician has experimented ex-perimented with blue electric light, which showed noticeable results in many phases of diseases and surpassed the efficacy of the white electric light usually employed heretofore. The Journal, Prof. Mendelsohn's Care of Patients, of Berlin, states that It is possible through the use of blue electric elec-tric light to make operations painless without reporting to other anaesthetics. Burns of the skin, and specially of the mucous membrane, are said to have not only been rendered painless but healed also more rapidly. The value of this treatment becomes Important from the fact that It can easily- be employed where it is difficult to use other therapeutic remedies on account ac-count of location, as in the throat or deeper down in the alimentary canal. It is also to be noted that the use of the blue electric light contributes much In lessening the pains caused by cancerous cancer-ous growth in a marked degree, and is said rapidly to effect a complete cure of lupus, this severe disease of the skin I which frequently resists every other method of treatment. |