Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-10-06
NURSING BY MACHINERY.
SOME NEW AND REMARKABLE
SURGICAL INVENTIONS.


ing-Electric Light Cures.
Hospital patients can now be
nursed by machinery. An inventor
has recently patented an ingenious
little machine, consisting of small
box, in which is a self-registering
thermometer, connected electrically
with a tiny bell This register is put
under the armpit of person suffer
ing from fever, and when his tenn
perature rises the bell rings, and the
doctor or nurse is summoned
DR.. Laborde of the French Acad-
envy of Medicine has recently con-
structed a wonderful little electric
machine for restoring persons uncon-
scious from drowning, suffocation, or
similar causes. 1t is called the cleo
trio tongue-tractor and has padded
forceps, which is attached to the pa
tents tongue, and pulls this member
out to its full length at regular in
tervals. 1t has restored life to an ap-
parently drowned persons after fric-
ton, mustard bath and artificial In
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A mountaineering machine is the
invention of another doctor named
Michel. 1t works very much more
rapidly than the old method of stitch
ing by hand, is painless and effective.
1t consists of a case or sheath, hold
ing a number of nickel hooks or
bands, like those used for the cor
ners of cardboard boxes. They are
put in position with pair of forceps,
and can be adjusted at the rate of
twenty-five a minute. Their rounded
points do not penetrate the lower
layer of the skin, but only the cpl
dermis, aid therefore the pain caused
by them is very slight. They have
the additional advantage of being
very easily disinfected.
A most curious invention is that
of DIR. Coakley for stimulating weak
heart. 1t consists of hollow needle,
some eight inches long, made of an
alloy of gold. and driven by 3 little
electric motor. 1t is so shaped that it
can be used to actually pierce the
heart, and inject into it solution of
salt and warm water, which will
stimulate the organ, and SO prolong
and save life.
Somewhat similar is the device of
DR.. Cordier, which is for the cure of
neuralgia and similar pains 1t is a
sort of gigantic hypodermic syringe,
by the aid of which not medicine, but
air. can be injected beneath the skin
of the sufferer. A sort of bubble OF
air is formed under the skin, and this,
being kneaded along the painful part,
gives instantaneous relief in severe
cases of sciatica, lumbago and other
neuralgia Affections.
1t has been complained that Mr..
Marconi, by his invention of wireless
telegraphy, has destroyed the posi-
bilities of a rest cure at sea. But If
electricity has in this way proved an
infiction to the nervous traveller, in
other hands the same force is being
employed to confer undreame1-of
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terrible ailments.
Of these the most wonderful is I'M
doubtedly the invention of the Danish
scientist, Finsen, for curing that most
terrible of diseases-canc the
aid of rays of electric light The ap-
paratus is tube shaped like tele-
scope. which directs a light of no less
than g 900 candle power upon the
| afflicted spot. By a scientific use of
quartz lenses the light is 1ecomposed
the heat rays being eliminated, and
only the blue and violet rays being
passed along the tube. These have
| no effect upon sound flesh, but di
rected upon the diseased part, have
the effect of killing the germs. Many
| wonderful cures have been effected by
means of these blue rays, and DR.
Finsen declares that not only cancer
but smallpox, scarlet fever and meas
les will yield to them.
But this tremendously powerful
light must be handled very carefully
for the undecomposed rays burn fear
fully, and will take the hair off the
head or the skin off the hands if al
lowed to escape.
DIR. Sophas Bang, DR.. Finsen's as
! sistant, has quite recently patented
an improvement on the original appa
ratus. 1t consists of an electric lamp
very feeble in light rays, but mos
powerful in chemical ones. 1t doe;
in five minutes the work which orig
inally required seyenty-five minutes
and has the great advantage of being
far cheaper than Fhe other. 1t costs
only So, and can be attached to any
ordinary electric light installation.
For the cure of consumption a ma
chine has been devised which car
also be operated from the lamp sock
ct of an ordinary electric light.
consists of a transformer and wha
is called an Audriole tube. This con
verts the oXyhydrogen of the air int
ozone. Ozone is the active agent il
Sea air, and one of the most effectua
killers of the consumption microbe.
Most elaborate machines, of which
the controlling power is electricity
have been devised for curing head
aches and other temporary ailments
and for the purposes of massage. On
is a sort of metal helmet, through
which alternating currents of cleo
tricity are passed. Another communi
Gates very rapid vibrations to tn,
head. There is a third. not electrical
but purely mechanical, which is use
for massaging the liver, and so cur
ing the miserable pains induced b.
Indigestion
Hay fever is now prevented by tn
use of the1hay fever disk. This IN
comfortable summer ailment is cause
by the pollen OF growing plants get
ting into the nostrils and causing il
hammation. This disks are so shape
as to be easily worn inside the nos