Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1908-03-26
How the Latest Discoveries and Re-
search in the Realm of Electric
ity Have Revolutionized
Medical Practice.
This Most Mysterious of Natures
Phenomena, Controlled by HUI
man Intelligence, Has Be
come a Boon to Humanity.

In no age, from the time of the
written or traditional chronicling of
human endeavor, up to the present
time, has the world been startled so
frequently by the profound research
and the great unthought of discover
les in the realms of Electricity.
The greatest savants and scientists
of today have spent, and are spend
ing their span of life to wrest from
this greatest of forces the secrets it
has held since the darkest ages; even
before animal life existed on this
planet.
Hardly day passes but what we
read or hear of some new use that
Electricity has been put to. The dis
covery of the X-uays by William
Conrad Roentgen, and the Crooks
Tubes by Sir William Crook, and
their subsequent use for the curing
of the human ills and maladies which
in centuries past baffled the skill of
the greatest and most learned physi-
clans, have placed these renowned
scientists on the pages of history.
The great mechanical achievements
of today have made 1t possible to per-
feet these great discoveries; and
many more wonderful secrets of this
great force have since been laid
bare; their uses to combat human ills
perfected and numberless fatal dis
eases of mankind, before which the
Medical Profession heretofore stood
helpless are now conquered and
eradicated.
Our correspondent to acquaint him
self more fully with the uses of Elec-
tricity in modern medical practice, re-
Gently visited the local offices of DR..
j. H. Terrill, of the famous Terrill
Medical Institute. DR.. Terrill, upon
being apprised of the purpose of his
visit, busy as he was at the time, laid
aside the voluminous correspondence
from the many sufferers and afflicted
people throughout the Southwest who
appeal to this great institution for
therelief that they failed to get from
their home doctors, and very gra-
ciously offered his time and knowl-
edge regarding the many Electrical
machines to be found in this, the
largest Medical Institute in the
Southwest.
The Doctor explained that the Ter
rill Medical Institute, of which he is
the President, had spared no expense
in equipping their Institution with
every known Electrical appliance; in
fact, every mechanism that would be
an aid to the skill and knowledge of
their large staff of physicians.
In one of tile magnificently ap-
pointed offices of this Institute was
shown the latest Electro herapy X
Ray machine, which produces power
full rays of lightk These rays enable
a person to see into and through the
human body. Countless diseases
which have been treated by guess
work heretofore, arenow cured and
sure and unerringly.
The Leucodecent Electric Light, a
great 500-candle power affair, is an
equipment of this great institution,
and with its aid all the fearful skin
diseases, tubercular diseases of the
joints and malignant diseases are
eradicated.
Our correspondents attention was
then called to the. Helio-T Therapeutic
Arc Lamp, wonderful apparatus of
Probationary, used in the treatment
of rheumatism, chronic, acute and in
flammatory diseases, and is wonder
full aid in curing sexual disorders and
diseases of men. This great Hello
Photo Lamp has affected more per-
manent cures of diseases of the
lungs than any other known modern
method. Numerous other Electrical
apparatus, and their uses, were ex-
planned.
Then, last but not least, DR.. Terrill
explained the use ofGalvanic, Fara-
die, Sinuseidal electric currents,
which are installed in this Institute.
The Galvanic or constant current, is
| used with great success in Muscular
and Nervous Troubles; the Faradic,
or induced interrupted current, and
| the Sinuseidal, or high alternating
current, are used for these same all
ments, and as each has its field, the
proper current is used to suit the ma
| ture of the disease being treated.
These three forms of Electricity have
been found highly efficacious for all
forms of Chronic Female Troubles.
After having been shown all these
wonderful appliances that combat hui
man suffering, the doctor, upon being
asked, stated that owing to the great
and increasing demand for treatment
made upon the Terrill Medical InIsti-
tute by the afflicted people of the
great Southwest and Mexico, it has
become necessary not only to main
tain an institution in Dallas and FL
Paso, but he has also found it neces-
sary as well as convenient to the sick
in and about San Antonio to estab-
: fish himself, personally, right here in
their midst. He invites all those
who are afflicted and suffering to cal
on him at his offices in the Conroy
building, Alamo Plaza, San Antonio
Texas, and receive the benefit OF his
: superior treatment for their ills. Hi
} X-Ray examinations and consulta