The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-04-07
NEW CANCER TREATMENT
Dr.. Harper's Pody is Saturated With
Artificial FIuorescence.
LIGHT DEVELOPED WITHIN BODY.
Or. Morton Does Not Claim That His Treat
neut win Cure all Cancers-lt has been
Used Successfully Ia Several Otnef us
eases. Such as lupus aud internal lu'
beseulosis.

New York, (Special).-DF. William
]. Morton, OF this city, inventor OF a
new method Of x-ray surgery, who IS
now treating President Harper, OF inc
University of Chicago. for cancer, de-
scribes his method of treatment as ioi-
lows:
at consists in the saturation OF the hu-
man organism with medicine endowed
with the property Of fuoreseence or phos-
phorescence, and III then submitting the
natient to the action of X-rays or OF
the radium radiation or Of high frequency
currents. have termed 1t 'artihc'al
fluorescence.
The prime object of the treatment is'
he saws. 10 develop light within the BODY.
This is accomplished by saturating the
tissues with fuorescent solutions and
then causing them to huoresee by the ac-
ton OF X-rays or radiun. In TINS way
the light is brought into direct contact
with the diseased surfaces.
Among fiuorescent substances, sald
Dr.. Morton, may be named quiilin' es-
culin. fraxin, COSTA, fiuorescin or uranin'
rhodamin. cochineal, copper potassium u
chromate. gentian, henbane, parami1''
petroleum, vaselin,. indigo and some san
cylates.' .,.h,,. /,
mower. Those most huorescert to radiufli
are quinn, uranin fraxln, escuiin, ana
vaselin. Radium is on the whole superior
"a the X-ray as an exeter of tiuorescence-
"If radioactive water is used to prepare
The medicinal solutions their power IS
much increased.
"For this reason, continues the
Doctor, Il administer to my patients
under treatment by fluorescent fiuids
TABLESPOONFUL Of radioactive water morn
ing and night. / employ QUINN bisul-
pf1ate in doses of from to IS grams
daily, according to the natural physlo-
logic tolerence Of the patient; fuorescin,
a to 40 aqueous solution, from to
20 DROPS. three times daily, one hour
I after meals; esculin, from to IS grams
daily
"During this internal medication the
patient is subjected to X-rays or radium
emanations, which cause the fluids and
tissues OF the diseased area, saturated
as they are with the fuorescent drug, to
become Auorescent, and thus, SO to speak
battle themselves in the curative rays.
DR.. Morton particularly recommends
the use Of his treatment in conjunction
with surgery By preliminary raging
of the area surrounding cancer, he
believes, the lymphatics, which radiate IN
all directions from it, like roots, and
spread the infection, can be sterilized.
The danger from cutting them and
bathing the raw edges of the wound in
their poisonous juices at the time OF
operation is removed, as well as the ne
cessity for following each one for some
distance from the cancer and ripping ii
out In order to destroy any remaining
infected areas after operation raging
to be continued for several weeks
He does not claim that his treatment
will cure all cancers. 1t has been used
successfully in several other diseases
& such as lupus and internal tuberculosis
In certain superficial forms of cancer il
has alone effected a cure, but its CHIEF
value lies, apparently, in combination with
early surgical extirpation of the tumor.