Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-16
RADIUn AS MEDICINE.
Dr. Morton Tells of His Fluorescent
 Cancer Cure.

professor of electro therapeutics, who recently made some discoveries in the therapeutic use of the radio active forces, gave to the New York World some further details of his observation and theory.
 "Tt is we'll known" said he, 'that certain solutions are Dendered huores- cent by radio activity and by the Roentgen ray. I have found number of such solutions, such as quinine, esculin, fiuorescin and orcin The duorescsnce Of quinine, esculin and orcin is of a most beautiful blue and violet color, and where the violet end of the spectrum is found there is also found the ultra violet radiation Both are capable of producing chemical eff fleets, which are usually known as the action of the actinic rays of the spec trum.
 Tt occurred to me that might com bina the properties which the x or radium rays have of penetrating hu- man tissue with these facts of fuores- cence. The idea is to flood given or gan or seat of disease with the huores- cible liquid used incidentally and at the same time, by turning the X or radium rays upon this region, set up the de- sired actinic radiations, thus bringing to beax the ultra violet rays In a man. ner which could not be attained by any mere application from the outside.
 ''These solutions of themselves pro- duce no result except to permeate the blood and place it in condition where it is susceptible to the rays of radium | applied to any seat of disease. Blood of itself has a natural duorescence, | and in deluging the arteries of the l body, as I propose, with liquid sum- | shine there is no violence done to na- ture. It was meant that the blood should have sunlight, and my method 1 follows the law of nature. 1t was meant that you should have sunlight | inside of you.
 "Radium or the x rays best exert their effects when the cancer is of the, skin. They do not delve into the tissue or into the system. With the whole body flooded with a liquid capable of 1 fiuorescence 1t will readily be seen that by the application of the rays to tile, diseased part from the extS4aeF Ehef9 will be a duoreseence developed right in the interior and at the precise spot | where 1t Is needed. For instance, if, a man has cancer of the nose the rays would be applied to that member. The solution he had taken would huoresce, and the violet and ultra violet actinic rays would act directly upon the nor bid tissues. There are many ways in l which radium or X rays could be local | ly applied when once the system is | flooded with fluorescible liquid A small arc lamp-smau enough to be swallowed might be taken into the stomach, and this would excite fuores- cence. Or a patient may be given the solutions and after that fluorescent wa ter. This last, however, should be han dled delicately, as it is as yet rather dangerous proposition to deal with. | Tt is probable that treatment may be evolved from this method that will cure tuberculosis. It is certain that it will cure cancer and chronic malaria, for ! have so demonstrated by axperi- | ment.
 I Tt is practically useless to speculate | as to what the fiuorescent discharge | does to the living tissues, and there still remains to decide how this affects | the cancer growth. This Knowledge can never be reached until we know | what cancer is, and we are still utterly Ignorant of its nature. The most req sonabla theory as to It's mode of action as that a mild leucocytosis Is estab- nshed, with a consequent ability of the living tissue to cope with and conquer cancerous cell proliferation. - {
 Tn the treatment of cancer or other
 disease I would first saturate the pa-
 tents system with quinine or some
 other solution capable of fiuorescence
 under the influence of the K ray and
 then submit the patient to the X ray
 or radium treatment. During year or
 more have pursued this plan with
 nearly all my cases Of cancer, and I
 have demonstrated that it is success.
 ful.
 Now as to the radium treatment of
 cancer. In general. the radiations from
 lradtum may be said not to be particu.
 larly disgimilar from the radiations
 generated with the Crookes tube, and
 the curative effect upon cancer Is un
 doubtedly similar. I am now using
 salts of radium of 5000 and of 7,oOC
 luminosity respectively, and one great
 advantage which find is that the
 radium salt, which, as is we'll known
 is contained within very small glass
 tube, may with suitable contrivances
 be introduced within cavities where it
 has been heretofore practically impos
 sibie to introduce the X rays. For the
 treatment of external cancer with radi
 um have devised glass bell shaped
 cup, within which the radium tube ii
 secured by means of a wire capable oi
 adjustment and suitable to be placed
 over the part to be treated"