Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1902-04-24

Of diseases, injuries and deformities
q 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
al over the world because Of the
wonderful cures effected.
AS q matter Of treatment medicines
play only an adjunct part there, the
appliances and instruments beng con
sideIcd more important. In one Of the
wards there is an immense brass hCr-
Izontal cylinder, surrounded by hot
water Jacket Within this cylinder
there is q 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 curoue aeuuatism 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
stocks Here he is allowed to bake
for twenty minutes. once or twice
ea, In n fo,v ,geel,q he leaves the
hosritaI entirely cured of his rheu-
matfsm
I'm another ward thorn ora two f.
rraln ,,atinn+c who 1.-Two all dow, md
an pigbf i'm hath t,,bo fIIod with ,,.,+c,.
At body temrerptura One or those
patjcpts has lived in her tuh for nearly
4vyn vaare and ~ har,,,,,. and Won o,Iy,
whom in hon. hath cho rota s1aars,
reads and does bnr sowing with mo
discomfort Her head sbouIdars and
arms are the OuIv PARTS of her hodv
ont Of water hoard covers the t1h
IN which she is nIaced and unon tbie
her food books and sewing are nJaced
These Dattents suffer toiturae from
internal ulcers unless kent in this
continuous bath They are tbon Nor
fcctIv haDDv
IN another mart or the hoenital tbara
is a large room fitted out with an cleo
fric battery and induction coils at
tached by wires to a CrOoIes tubs
This is the R0entgen or X-ravs
machine BY it's use the interna!
anatomy of the human subject can be
studied and false teeth coins fin
whistles and bullets which have on
tered the BODY can be detected Most
important of all, however. is the utiI-
ization Of thcX-ray to cure inoperative
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 q day
for three months. In a few weeks the
growths are to be seen gradually di-
minishing. This treatment is slower
and less complete than an oneration
but is finally effectual
Sciatica, which is neuralgia of the
nerves of the leg, has often proved
ncurable 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
81 patients have had their lives again
made happy bv undergoing a very
Slight operation The sciatfc nerve is
exposed by a surgeon who stretches
it. This seems to cure many cases.
Neuralgia OF the face. which has
often driven sufferers to insane asv
lums need no longer cause trouble
Dr. Harvey Gushing. of the Johns Hop
llins. has devised an oneratiop Inv
which the nerve affected can be very
easily removed OF course when the
nerves are gone, pain can no longer
ne present. Here. again. surgery has
triumphed orer 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
Oathtrcatment more cases of pneumo-
MIA are saved than by any drugs which
nave ever been given. Dinbtheria is
cured by the anti-toxin treatment
IntoNications from alcohol and
opium are cured by the stomach tube
which is passed into the esonhasus
Of the patient and flushed with wafer
Skin diseases which cover the whole
body and cause intense suffering and
itching are cured 10y suInhur baths
Hemorrhage is stopped and re lost
blood replaced by solution made mn
of six parts of salt to Thousand of
water This is injected into the blood
vessels, and takes the place of the
lost blood thus preventing the haor+
from stOppinr nv eivipo II sor,atrf,,o
to nunD