The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-03-18
RADIuM AND ITS USES
Cancer Checked by Application
of Radio Active Water.
NO DANGER IN TIE TREATMENT.

gan Gave the Patients Prompt Re.
lief From Pain-One Case Of Eight
cen Years. Standing Instantly Re-
lieved-Use Of Radium In the Home.
The possibility Of using radium to
convert ordinary rain and we'll water
into a mineral water more highly me
dicinal than any known natural min
eral water has been recently demon
strated at the University of Michigan
in a series Of experiments covering
over ten weeks, says IN Ann Arbor
(Mich.) dispatch to the Chicago Trib-
une.
DR.. Rollin H. Stevens Of Detroit, q
skin disease specialist, who holds q lee
ture chair at Michigan, having spent
last summer in Europe studying ra-
dunn, returned recently to try his ra-
dunn outfit on cancer. He hit upon
the idea of immersing a radium tube
in water, tightly closed in glass bottles.
DR.. Stevens was looking for a method
by which radium could be applied to
the interior of a cancer without any
danger of the terrible radium, or X
ray, burns.
He worked on the known phenom-
enon that every substance brought
even within q moderate distance of
radium absorbs the raCium rays and
afterward gives them out, exactly ILL
q radium tube. By leaving a sealed
four hours he produced radio active
water of powerful effects, as his tests
Immediately proved.
Injected into cancers, this water stop
ped pain in ten minutes. His first pa
tent was q man whose allotted life
was a week, q sufferer from cancer and
an x ray burn. This man took NOR
phine to endure his pain, but after one
application Of the radium water he was
able to stop the morphine completely.
Even in his weakened condition the
homemade mineral water successfully
stopped craving for the drug and also
prolonged his life two months.
Other patients now under the radium
water treatment include n with a
cancer of eighteen years standing and
some of the ordinary nose and breast
CdACCASs OA6ASSSA J$NA oHS A~S
had over six weeks Of water treatment,
and from the first five minutes after
applying 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 fore I'd upon them.
The experiments Of scientists with
raGium are daily revealing fresh cura-
tive properties in that wonderful and
precious mineral. Perhaps the most
curious instance of its influence is that
recorded below of the cure of a SOM
nambulist who was addicted to wife
beating, says the London Nails Paris
correspondent.
This was described by DR.. A. Darier,
the eminent oculist Of Paris. In an in
terest;cg conversation he mentioned
some curious results which he had OBJ
tanned in his work by experimenting
with radium.
He recently treated a case Of rodent
ulcer of the orbit, which had destroyed
the ocular globe and all the tissues.
Although the patient had for two years
suffered from pains so intolerable that
during that period he had not enjoyed
a single nights rest, his agony was
completely and almost instantly ended
by the introduction Of radio active
powder.
In one case treated by the doctor the
woman, who had long suffered from
epileptic fits and gidd.ncss, has not had
a single attack since radium of weak
intensity was applied to the temple.
"Radium was also tried with sue
cess,' said DIR. Darier, ION a male pa
tient who suffered from strange SOM
nambulistic attacks, during which he
would get up, maltreat his wife and
break everything within reach. Then
he would leave the house and roam
about the streets for two or three
hours, at the end Of which time he
would return home, go to bed and fall
asleep again. So frequent did these
~3o1o,,+ 6to hooomo fhaf his wife loft