Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1904-02-27
CANCER GERM GIVES
WAY TO RAD|UM
Or dinaryRaIn Water Is Trans.
formed Into Highly Medic
lnal Product.
ANN ARBoR EXPERIMENTS
They Give Rise to the Claim That the
Dread Cancer Can Be Cured and
Drug Habit Is Wiped Out
"A Doctors Theory.

Ann Arbor, Mich, Feb. 20.-The pos
sibility of using radium to onvert or
binary rain n we'll water into a min
eral water, more highly medicinal than
any known natural mineral water, has
been demonstrated at the University OF
Michigan In a series OF experiments
covering the last ten weeks.
DIR. Rollin III. 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 phenom-
snon hat every substance, brought
ever within a moderate distance of
radium. absorbs the radium rays and
afterward gives them out ex city like
a radium tube. BY leaving a sealed
tube in pure, distilled water or TWEEN
ty-four hours he produced radioactive
water, of powerful effects, as his tests
Immediately proved.
Injected into cancers this water
stopped pain in ten minutes. His first
patient was a man whose allotted life
was one week. a sufferer from cancer
and an X-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
n 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 the first five minutes after APP
plying water pain has peen 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 mineralizing OF
pure water will begin on q much larger
scale, for then radium tubes Of $50, 00C
radio-activity will arrive. At present
Michigan has nothing stronger Khan
$4,000 ra"dio-activity. Radio-activity
defined means the number of times a
piece of radium is stronger than the
Influence Of a piece of uranium, the
metal from which the first radium was
made.
Doubts Cancer Germ.
DIR. Stevens theory about radiurn
water, based on his own ten weeks OBJ
! servation. is hat radium may not, as
/ commonly believed, cure cancer by kill
ing the germ. He says that no one
ever yet proved positively that there
was a germ to be killed. Watching the
cancer cells, he observed first that
minute holes appear In them, which
enlarged rapidly and quickly obliter-
ated the cell. He names his process abb
sorption.