Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-04-24

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visit should be taken through the
Johns Hopkins hospital of this city
says the Baltimore News. Some of
the ingenious methods now in use
there have been gradually taken up
all over the world because of the
wonderful cures effected.
AS a matter Of treatment medicines
play only an adjunct part there, the
appliances and Instruments being con-
sidered more important. In one of the
wards there is an immense brass hor-
i2ontal cylinder, surrounded by a not
water jacket. Within this cylinder
there is wide space filled with air,
which can be regulated from $50
degrees Fahrenheit to over 200 de-
grees Fahrenheit. This is used to
cure patients who suffer for years
with chronic rheumatism The patient
places himself before the cylinder and
thrusts the affected joints, perhaps
both legs and both arms, into the hot
air chamber, leaving only his head
and chest exposed. He presents much
of the picture of a prisoner in the
for twenty minutes. once or twice
day. In a few weeks he leaves the
hospital entirely cured of his rheu-
matism.
In another ward there are two fe-
male patients who live all day and
all night in bath tubs filled with water
at body temperature. One of these
10 hoc in I, +,,l,
two years. and is happy and wen only
when in her bath She eats, sleeps.
reads and does her sewing with no
discomfort Her head, shoulders and
arms are the only parts Of her body
out OF water. A board covers the tub
IN which she is placed, and upon this
ner food, books and sewing are placed
These patients suffer tortures from
internal ulcers unless kept in this
continuous bath They are then per-
fectly happy.
In another part OF the hospital there
is a large room fitted out with an cleo
trio battery and induction coils at
2ached by wires to a Croolles tubs.
This is the Roentgen OF X-rays
machine. BY its use the internal
anatomy of the human subject can be
studied, and false teeth. coins. tin
whistles and bullets which have en-
tered the body can be detected Most
important of all. however. is the utiI-
42atiOn Of theX-ray to cure imperative
cancer and tuberculosis of the face
Patients are taken into the X-ray room
and these mysterious rays are permit
ted to play upon the face once a day
Tor three months. In few weeks the
growths are to be seen gradually di-
minishing. This treatment is slower
and less complete than an operation,
but is finally effectual.
Sciatica, which is neuralgia of the
nerves of the leg. has often proved
rncurable by all known medicine.
Patients often become morphine and
opium eaters from habits formed in
taking drugs to relieve the pain At
the Johns Hopkins hospital hundreds
Of patients have had their lives again
made happy by undergoing a very
slight operation. The sciatic nerve is
exposed by surgeon, who stretches
T. This seems to cure many cases
Neuralgia of the face, which has
often driven sufferers to insane asy-
lums need no longer cause trouble.
Dr. Harvey Gushing. of the Johns Hop
Hns, has devised an operation by
which the nerve affected can be very
easily removed. OF course. when the
nerves are gone, pain can no longer
oe present. Here, again, surgery has
Friumphed over medicine.
Typhoid fever is cured by warm
baths, and not. as is popularity sup
posed. by ice baths. Pneumonia is
cured by cold baths. With the cold
oath-treatment more cases of pneumo-
MIA are saved than by any drugs which
have ever been given. Diphtheria is
cured by the anti-toXin treatment
intoxications from alcohol and
opium are cured by the stomach tube,
winch is passed into the esophagus
Of the patient and flushed with water.
Skin diseases which cover the whole
body and cause intense suffering and
Atchng are cured by sulphur baths.
hemorrhage is stopped and the lost
oIooo replaced by a solution made up
OF SIN parts of salt to a thousand of
water. This is injected into the blood
vessels, and takes the place of the
lost blood, thus preventing the heart
from stopping by giving it something
to pump
Nervous diseases are treated by
electricity This is administered to
each patient five minutes every dav
some cases OF paralysis are much ben.
ehted If they receive the electricity
properly and long enough. Epilepsy
Is cured by an operation. A part OF
the skull is trephined, the piece oil
oone is removed and the brain ex
posed. Electric needles are used tc
ma the exact spot which causes the
COMMISSIONS. Any growth or defect OF
the brain is then removed the bone
put back and the scalp closed.
Iumors of the brain and spinal core
are removed by operation with Derfec-
ease. The operations. when performed
by skilful surgeons, are almost devote
OF danger. Operations are performef
at the present day without the loss q
blood or danger of blood poisoning
Loss of blood is prevented by won
dertul drug called epinephrin dis
covered at the Johns Hopkins hos
pltal by Professor Abel. 1t is place.
on the market in impure form unde
the names of suprarenal, extract O
Suprarenin, adrenalin, etc This DOW
der is sprinkled upon the wound a
soon as it is opened and stops bleed
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