The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-03-04
CANCER GERM GIVES
WAY TO RADIUM
DrdinaryEain Water Is Trans.
formed Into Highly Medic
inal Product
ANN ARBoR EXPERIMENTS
they Give Rise to the Claim That tn,
Dread Cancer Can Be Cured and
Drug Habit Is Wiped Out
"A Doctors Theory.

Ann Arbor, Mich, Feb. 2o.-The po,
ability of using radium to convert or
binary rain and we'll water into a min
erai water, more highly medicinal han
any known natural mineral water, has
been demonstrated at the University OF
Michigan IN a series of experiments
covering the last ten weeks.
DR.. Rollin II. Stevens of Detroit, a
skin disease specialist, who holds a
lecture chair at Michigan. having spent
last summer in Europe studying
radium. returned recently to try his
radium outfit on cancer.
He hit upon the idea of immersing
a radium tube in water, tightly closed
in glass bottles. DR.. Stevens was look
ing for a method by which radium
could be applied to the interior OF a
cancer without any danger of the ter
rible radium. or X-ray. burns.
Makes Water Radio Active.
He worked on the known phenon-
enon that every substance, brought
even within a moderate distance OF
radium, absorbs the radium rays and
afterward gives them out exactly like
q radium tube. By leaving a sealed
tube in pure, distilled water for twen-
ty-four hours he produced radioactive
water. of powerful effects, as his tests
Immediately proved.
Injected into c this water
stopped pain in ten minutes. His first
patient vas a man whose allotted life
was week. a sufferer from cancer
and al N-ray burn. This man took
morphine to endure his pain, but after
one application of the radium water he
was able to stop the morphine COM
pletely. Even in his weakened condi-
ton the homemade mineral water sue
cessfully stopped craving for the drug
and also prolonged his life two months.
Relieves Pain at Once.
Other patients now under the radium
water treatment include one with a
cancer of eighteen years standing, and
some of the ordinary nose and breast
cancers. The eighteen year cancer has
had six weeks of water treatment, and
from h first five minutes after ap-
plying water pain has been almost
wholly absent. In each OF the other
cases pains stopped Immediately. and
several poor sufferers were released
from the morphine habit. which had
been forced upon them.
Apparently the water is curing every
one of these cancers, even the one with
an eighteen year history. for all OF
them have steadily and consistently
diminished in size, the worst one now
being only half its former bulk. BY the
beginning of March the m~ineralszirg Of
pure water Will begin on 6 much Lsrssr
scale. for then radium tubes Of Isg. Ee,y
r~adio-actiyity will arrive ~ pesssa.
Michigan has nothing Stronger ca-
$4,000 radio-aetivity. RadtoGeuEzz
defined means the number q times =
piece Of radtum is stronger tha7 -nz
influence of q piece Of ura1fz1, -.ns
metal from which the first ra5-l- WIS
made.
Doubts Cancer Ger-
Or. Stevens theory aboee a.sr-
water. based on his ten Rasa &C.
serYation. is that radfu1 Eay -s,E- r
commonly believed, sure carcsr aT XII
ing the germ He says G &c sr-es
ever yet proved positively thai zsscs
was 8 germ TO be killed. waog re
cancer cells. he obssrvel first rlAa.
minute holes appear IN casr2. which
enlarged RAPIDLY and quickly c6arG-
ated the cell. He names his process ab-
sorption.