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Show USE RADIUM TO TREAT GOUT Special Apparatus Used From Which Chemical Product Is Transported In Current of Air. Radium-laden breezes are the latest lat-est thing in the treatment of gout On of the papers read at the German Ger-man medical congress, which has just been held at Wiesbaden, was on the application of radium in the aerial state. Radium "emanatoria" have been established in Berlin and at Bad Homburg, and now Ems is to have one. A special apparatus from which radium is transported in a current of fresh, cool air is fixed in a room, and the patients have merely to sit In the room and talk or read the newspapers news-papers or play draughts; the radium in solution in the air does the rest, and affects the blood through the lungs. This treatment Is especially recommended for all gouty ailments. In the recent torrid conditions of the atmosphere It has afforded to gouty subjects something more than an amelioration amounting almost to a pleasing compensation for their aches and pains. |