Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-04-28
METHODS AND APPLIANCES ARE
BETTER THAN MEDICINES.
GREAT PROGRESS is MADE
Cancer Cured by Roenteen Rays, and
Many Other Curious and Wonderful
Things Done That Were Unknown
Until ecentIy-Importance of Ster-
iIzing Processes.


of diseases, injuries and deformities
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-
izontal cylinder, surrounded by a hot
water jacket. Within this cylinder
there is wide space filed 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
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 a
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 filed with water
at body temperature. One of these
patients has lived in her tub for nearly
two years, and is happy and well 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
her 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 large room fitted out with an cleo
trio battery and Induction coils at
tached by wires to a Crookes tubs.
This is the Roentgen or X-rays
machine. BY it's 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
ization 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
for 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
incurable 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 very
slight operation. The sciatic nerve is
exposed by surgeon, who stretches
it. 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.
kins, 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
be present. Here, again, surgery has
triumphed 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
bath 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.
which is passed into the esophagus
of the patient and flushed with water.
Skin diseases which cover the whole
itching are cured by sulphur baths.
Hemorrhage is stopped and the lost
blood replaced by a solution made up
of six 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 day.
Some cases of paralysis are much ben
Gifted if they receive the electricity
properly and long enough. Epilepsy
is cured by an operation A part of
the skull is trephined, the piece Of
bone is removed and the brain ex-
posed. Electric needles are used to
find 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.
TumOrs of the brain and spinal cord