The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1909-03-31
BYPRODUcT.
Chicago Doctors Tell of Marvel
GUS Radio thor.
FORMED FROM PITCHBLENDE.

Said to Be Cheaper and Better Than
Administrations In Many Dis
eases-Insects Treated Lived Three
Times as Long as Others.
At a recent session in New Orleans
of the Southern Homeopathic Medical
association DR.. L. S. Bailey of the
Hahnemann Medical college, Chicago,
announced the discovery of radio
thor" declared to have all the properties
of radium without it's baneful effects
and to be moderate in price. 1t was de-
scribed as being made from certain
species of pitchblende of which twenty
tons have been discovered near a Colo
RADIO mine with much more in sight.
DR.. Bailey declared that it generates
the purple ray. the same which Finsen
used so successfully in the treatment
of lupus.
At later session of the association
DR.. Bailey went into details in ex-
planning his discovery. He said he
was recently requested by the Chicago
board of trade to make an analysis Of
the Colorado pitchblende. He found
that this blende contained an element
possessing many of the qualities Of
radium and that when this element
was applied to the backs of patients
suffering from locomotor ataxia and
similar diseases it effected quick cures.
He said he was not alone in his ex-
perimentS, for a chemist attached to
the Smithsonian institution at Wash
ington had analysed the pitchblende
and found that it contained ten or
twelve more or less rare elements.
He then distributed among the mem
bers of the association some of the
"radio-thor," which had the appear
ance of partially fused metal and
gave out a phosphorus-like glow.
DR.. t. H. Blackmar of Hahnemann
Medical college at Chicago gave fur
Their details of the discovery of "radio-
thor" DR.. Blackmar was associated
with Dr. Bailey in making tests
Zone of the most curious expert
ments with the new substance" said
DR.. Blackmar, twas the taking of a
photograph through a stove lid on
which some radio-thOr had been
spread. The powerful rays Of this ele-
ment enabled the light to pass through
the iron plate, thus permitting a photo
graph of a number Of pennies and
other articles on the opposite side.
"Its basis is pitchblende, but with
this element are mingled others whose
names do not care to disclose at this
time Some Of them are so rare that
we keep them in safety deposit vault.
The new element, while far from be-
ing inexpensive, will be within the
reach of everybody who needs it for
treatment It's action is quite as eff
ficient as that of radium. There is
not enough radium in the whole world
to treat all the people who need its
curative properties.
"The therapeutic value of our radio
thor. or thorad-X, has been establish
ed beyond question in the fourteen
months that we have been using it for
the treatment of diseases. 1t never
has failed to give relief. and in many
cases it has cured Some of the diseases
on which it acts successfully are can
Ger, tuberculosis of the in, ulcers,
birthmarks and nervous aft lions. Its
rays are as effective as those of ra-
dunn, although it does not act so
quickly. Its moderate action keeps it
from being harmfully caustic, as ra-
dunn is likely to be when in the hands
of unskilled persons. 1t has the same
selective power as radium-that is, it
seems to act only on tissues which are
diseased, having no effect on healthy
tissues.
81 should not like to suggest. that in
this discovery may at last be found
the means for indefinite prolongation
of human life by arresting the process
es of decay, yet it is fact that eX-
periments we have made indicate an
extraordinary power in the new agent
to .prolong life.
Several months ago l took two
small boxes of chrysalids- ordinary
moth millers One of the boxes !
subjected to a radiO-thor exposure.
The other was not exposed. | did
this to demonstrate my theory, now
a recognized fact, that the emana-
lions of radio-thor were preventive of
tissue degeneration. The result was
astounding Those moths in the I'M
exposed box developed as. usual, lived
their natural term of life and died.
Those exposed lived three times as
long as the others
''In perhaps a more remarkable in
stance treated a Chicago man very
prominently known for tubercular
pleurisy. l injected the radio-thor in
solution. After three injections the
man was cured He has remained
well. and there has been no return Of
The tubercular condition. Perhaps I
shall be told that this cure was due to
suggestive therapeutics.
HWe have found that the waters OF
most of the principal foreign springs
to which people flock for treatment
are radioactive, which explains their
curative quality For instance, Marien-
bad, the Mecca of King Edward OF
England, has springs Of great radio
activity If we succeed in discovering
how TO maintain the radioactive prin-