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Said to Be Cheaper and Better Than
Radium-E ffcaeious In Many Dis
eases-Insects Treated Lived Three
Times as Long as Others.

Or. Bailey declared that it generates
the purple ray, the same which Finsen
used SO successfully in the treatment
OF lupus.
At q later session of the association
Or. 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
possessing many of the qualities of
fadtum 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 chemist attached to
the Smithsonian institution at Wash,
lngton had analysed the pitchblende
and found that it contained ten or
twelve more or less rare elements.
He then distributed among the mem
beers of the association some Of the
-'radio-thor," which had the appear
ance Of partially fused metal and
gave out phosphorus-like glow
DR.. F. H. Blackmar Of Hahnemann
Medical college at Chicago gave fur
Their details of the discovery of radio
thor DR.. Blackmar was associated
with DIR. Bailey In making tests
One of the most curious expert.
aents with the new substance" said
DR.. Blackmar, twas the taking Of a
photograph through stove lid on
which some radiO-thor had been
spread. The powerful rays of this ele-
naent enabled the light to pass through
the iron plate, thus permitting photo
graph Of number of pennies and
other articles on the opposite side.
TITS 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 a 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 ef
acient as that Of radium. There ia
not enough radium in the whole world
to treat all the people who need it's
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 1t for
the treatment of diseases. 1t never
has failed to give relief, and in many
cases 1t has cured. Some of the diseases
on which 1t acts successfully are can
Ger, tuberculosis Of the skin, ulcers,
b1rthmarks and nervous affections. 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. It has the same
selective power as radium-that is, it
seems to act only on tissues which are
,nrssssad, having no effect on healthy
tissues ! -.
A-91 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
g q decay, yet It i faet that s7-
periments We have made indicate an
extraordinary power in the new agent
to prolong life. $3.50 -
"Several months ago l took two
small boxes of chrysalids ordinary
moth millers. One of the boxes |
subjected to radio-thor exposure.
The other was not exposed. did
this to demonstrate my theory now
q recognized fact, that the emana-
t1ons Of radio-thor were preventive of
tissue degeneration. The result was
astounding. Those moths in the UNI
exposed box developed as usual, lived
their natural term Of life and died.
long as the others.
"In perhaps a more remarkable III
stance l treated Chicago man very
prominently known for tubercular
pleurisy / injected the radio-thor in
solution. After three injections the
well, and there has been no return OF
the tubercular condition. Perhaps /
shall be told that this cure was due to
suggestive therapeutics.
1--WE 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 prirl
ciple in solution, SO that the solution
does not lose its value with time. We
shall have come very close to knoWl
edge Of how to fight off death indefi
nitely.
1.-THE use Of injections to arrest
senility, to regenerate and rejuv'eaansa renal
the aged, to re-establish balance in dis
ordered functions, will certainly come
as we familiarize ourselves with thu
use Of the new product. Z