The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-01-23

In the treatment of fractures, galva- | nism, faradism and static electricity
 have all been used, both in rabbits and in man, by Francesca Blasi. In all l cases the limb was made immovable. In rabbits the galaYanic current re-
 duces drOpsical. swelling very rapidly, there were no signs of suffering, and | the animals walked and ran at once on
 removal of the apparatus One of the l four human patientr, wrra a fracture | that had shown no tendency to unite l after four weeks, was cured Tn three weeks. while the other cases did we'll. The conclusions were reached that | galvanism is beneficial in all fractures.
 it favors the formation of callus, 1t | reduces to a minimum the time of dis | ablement, and only temporary splint
 and bandage are needed to keep the | limb in place.
 The air-dying process of James Gay | ley Is claimed to be an improvement in | iron making second only to the hot
 blast introduced by Nelson in 1928.
 The smelling of ton of iron requires
 a furnace charge of about 7200 pounds
 of raw material and the supplying of 1l,7OO pounds of air. While the com l position of the ore can be limited to 10 per cent of variation, however the | moisture of the air may vary from 20 | to 100 per cent in the same day, the
 range in Ptusburg being from to gallons per hour for each 1000 cubic | feet of air per minute. m the new pro-
 cess the excess of moisture is removed
 by refrigeration, and tests show that
 the product of iron Is made more uni
 form' While the output is increased 20
 per cent for the same fuel
 The toxin of fatigue is obtaineds bv
 Herr Weichardt, a German biologist
 from the muscles of animals that have
 been worked to exhaustion. This mus ! cle extract is separated from other
 products of muscular activity by dialy- | sis. great care being taken to avoid
 contamination by bacteria, and 1t can
 be dried and preserved for short time but rapidly loses its power. Infected 1 into mice, rabbits or guinea pigs, 1t | causes all the symptoms of fatigue In
 the horse the toxin yields an anti-toxin. | which may be extracted as a very sta
 ble substance, keeping indefinitely | and which, in moderate doses taken by
 mouth. lessens fatigue, acts as tonic, and Increases capacity for work. The
 antI-toxin is much the more powerful appearing to neutrafize 100 times its
 weight of toxin.
 The production of metallic calcium
 at retail price of $2 pound In Ger
 many is of interest, although the pres
 ent demand is small. The metal was first isolated by Sir Humphrey Davy
 who first formed an amalgam by cleo trolyzing lime mixed with mercuric 1 oxide, and then distilled off the mer-
 cury. Moissan and other chemists have | since produced small quantities. The new commercial process Is the work of Suter and Redlich of Bitterfeld, | Saxony, and consists in fusing calcium chloride in the electric furnace and | drawing the kathode away from the globule of calcium that collects at its point. thus building up an irregular rod of the metal.
 Science now transforms radishes in- | to potatoes. Showing a process of Pasteur. NJ. Mollard cultivates a young | radish in a glass retort, in concentra- ted glucose. when the radish develops
 much starch and swells out. losing it's pepperiness and acquiring the taste.
 consistency and nutritive properties of