| Show I IN EI CHI LIHT I It hn has bun bean that there are areman man many paInful ailments which when acted upon by electric het heat Ind and light i rI ras are completely banished from the sufferers by body SUong electric light I it thrown on to the Mt seat ot of the suffer lug Ing the patient Iks beaks tn in a bath of lIght gh t anti and heat experiencing nothing but pleasant sensations and In most oases nn an Immediate and comforting sele sense ot of relIef from paIn Te The apparatus which enables patients t to bathe In electric light Is simple To nn an adjustable stand are fitted two large copper COPIer or reflectors which CM can b be move moved In an any direction I If a patient I ii lying In b bed reflectors are placed on either li aid adjusted to lo the exact Is poe Ilon for tor locating the rays where d dr tie sired r On the reflectIng arc are the electric lamps which radiate the The heat ml may b be regulated b by distance of th the reflectors or the number o of lamp or orby orby by mel means of a special regulator which I controls the electric current current Tho Those Jr parts ef at the bo body such luch as tile the armpits o shoulders It would be Imps siDle l to treat locally with other ar rrt are ealy easily d dealt with lb by the neW system tem When u the patient is In the right ton nt sad is settled he ma mab may b be tul clothe clothed or cere covered blan bian kals without affecting the lisa power of th the 11 rays the current I Is time turned on and heat an and light of consIderable intensity nr are immediately produced In a ft few moment the thermometer will 11 register ter terM M 30 degrees J P I ht seen patients chatting l cheerfully an and experiencIng n no In while an affected limb hI baa ten n exposed to at ata ata a tm temperature tf of fe degrees el F I It might b be IPP that thai such luch a heat n ns thIs woul would ret roast a limb Undoubtedly I there would 1 evil were ere It not nol for tor forthe the Important fog that dr dry lat heat Is II em cm 00 which evaporates p perspiration as al ln soon a as It appl on the tha by body The baths usually la last t for tor forty fotty minutes or r In an hour and It I Is to this prolonged application or of the light and the Intense het heat bearable un an under tier der n no other circumstances that thu the marvelous are mainly dUe The he 11 rass may ay b be applied In three They may mar li Ito directly applied to the theby by body without heating the surrounding air they hy may b be partially screened so 10 that the they tal tail only on on one aDt spot as ae on onan onan an ar arm or ban hand or ar th they may be tilt dlf tue fused an and t to het heat the air sur lur surrounding rounding the Ilent patient As a rule beter better results are obtained when n a complete body teeth bath Is II take Ien even when the al all mont to bo be In one limb or joint joint The tHUI result 0 of the bab haiti I is that n a free perspiration brek breaks out ut vor the whole b bed eVen een whets hll are applied only loraly locally at the Ilie seine time the b bodY temperature Is rile raised t as much luch 81 as one two or even three dres a 0 lel leal effect hitherto regarded u as Ther There isan increased cIrculation of the blo blood hl pul puLse increases In Infrequency frequency and also the but buta a fl few to the bath pulse and to their nonal normal or Willie hl an hour latr th pulse is II found to be Ilowe slower and stronger than before especially In the cage of patients wIth week ak hearts Wih painful afflictions the pain Is almost Immediately relieved d 01 the a of the MI rays After the bath the hal b body is II brIskly rubbe rubbed wih with 1 a dr dry l and perhaps la the plent rises from his hll bed 1 ci mn mars b The ut of the h heat at supplied d dby by the electric I U fl the rays require no medium but may be radiated directly on the boY body or even through n a glass screen reen or In a vacuum The Theair air th the bather may b be freezing th the bOy body would stIll UI be beware ware warmed by the from the ele aloe trio 11 lamps In n aU all othe other baths of a elm liar charaCter air as a a medium is II ne cleary In applying the heat heal to the body The 1 so re the tho lun sunS rays that the they will 1 cause and freckles when dl seated for ouy ny 0 of tush on tle tite i uncovered kin This discovery Is II full i of doubt there ore Ii Ila slaves of the th dut desk who ho when I it be becomes comes generally known wi will take ele trio heat an and bath for tor the like eske of gaining n a lelon which may lom compare favorably with a ate after a long cruise In the tropics Pearsons for February |
