| Show f. f 1 i 0 I Ir L r WILL US VISE USE RADIUM a y f RAYS AS AH A CURE y r tR Johns to fie Try New Hew f Treatment For Rheumatism J FIRST TIME IN AMERICA f May Not Work as Well Here as In European Eu a Climate Theoretically Patient Pa Pa- Ali tient tient Takes Air Saturated With Rays Ray Which Travel to All Parts Parta of th the Body by Way of the Blood Bood Vessels 4 Baltimore I The he Johns hospital hos bos pital has hitI purchased a n quantity of ot radium ra In let l Europe reed within a few tew weeks t will establish a Ii new department for tor the t t 7 treatment of ot diseases 8 by means of ot the t 4 luh Inhalation l of or radium emanations So J F 1 t f tur tar far as UK known this will be the tho first use a r of ot radium in this way in the tho United j States Since the h discovery of ot tho mineral minerai Tr g r about fifteen ln years jears r urs ago by Professor Protessor f t it ncI and Mme Ime Curie Curle of ot France Francc it has bas been t r used In In III many surgical cases In Europe 1 sod and until a II few rew years jears ago Its use was 1 confined to such cases and to giving what are called all d radium baths Espe V tY dally chilly noteworthy were its Ita effects In Inthe Inthe I the tr treatment of ot cancer giving hope that a II new and permanent means off of ot I f t c I J the disease bad had been found The use of f radium In purely medical cases rases C Is something comparatively new I t tt It was wall discovered that the emanations emanation from radium were enormously beneO t e email lei In th the treatment of ot chronic rheumatism rhea rheu I t i facial paralysis neuralgia and dl diseases of ot the Joints Persons who had bad 1 suffered from these ailments for tor years yean f r. r p f Il Q f if 1 M k kA kuliR A Mint CUBE t found und their one relief relict to come t nn the strange element element and gradually a aI I method of at tr treatment has bas developed I from that discovery By this method the emanations from radium are collected and held In solution its ty i a tion in the air A compartment ment called callo J an D Is the the cabinet int in t which patients patents of or the radium treatment treat N went ment must be placed to breathe In the he confined air laden with radium emanations emana r tons An hour bour or or more moro at a time must I be bo spent In 10 the and tb the treatment continues for tor three weeks J The theory is that the radium rays raya f which do not perish like light rays but buC butare c lii j 1 i- i are held beld In solution In the air nr are ar breathed Into loto the lungs There Therl they r f r get set into the blood an and thus are carried to every or organ an of at the body This 1 II i ts J iH what hat would happen If Ir radium emana emanations lions actual material substance are nn an which can saturate the atmosphere ai as I seams to be the case At all events this treatment has bas been y practiced in tn Europe for tor two or ore three tk years and has to tu its credit It is said sold a n s number of ot curs CI The substance ra radium ilium is yet too tau much of ot a mystery for gate scientists dentists to 0 bank on what It do or f whether It can repeat hero bere what It has apparently b been beau ell doing doln in Euro Europe l' l TheS The S i Johns Hopkins warns people not to put too great confident e in the new method until It has baR had bud a n thoro thorough b trial here S Climatic conditions condition differing fromi from i those of ot Europe may affect the mans mans' mansa a r v of ot radium here bere 7 1 One highly Important feature in connection con can necton with the tbt Johns lohn Hopkins undertaking under under- a i taking Making is that thur the radium treatment t will not be bl high b priced Rich and poor alike will have bare t entrance to the new de de- department This seems paradoxical when it Is remembered re re- t. t that a n very small amount of ot Is b worth n II fortune One American Amerlean Amer Amer- l lean ican physician has hilI sent ent abroad for tor a small supply of or It II and is said to be payIng pay pay- F. F lug Ing fur for what Is contained In avery a avery I f. f s t very Tery small mall phial But Out this high price is lt i somewhat offset by the fact tact that radium ra ra- radium Is almost t Imperishable Giving tJ off ort emanations reduces l its It quantity byC byi by i C ucb nn no Infinitesimal amount that it hi is claimed tit tilt quantity which Johns Jobos Hopkins Dapkin Hop Dap- s kips kin brings titer pr will be doing service 4 10 v E for tor 2100 2000 years Another matter which may shortly d In III connection with radium ra ra- tb be t In A I N Is the theory that Its lis pre presence enC in certain mineral m II I waters In Is the Ihl cause a use of ot their curative It Ir Is wild said that 1 k the government authorities will vill appoint I r to tu make ninke an In investigation atlon of at the v springs at nt Jilt Hot Springs Ark to aster ascer- y how v much If It any radium Is la In the th w crater r I A. A c |
