New-York tribune., 1910-05-01
KILLED IN FAKE FIGHT CURES BY ELECTRICITY
Or. Levi Praises the High FIRE.
quenCy Current.
HE CITES SOME RESULTS
Wonderful Therapeutic Posslbli'
tiles of the Treatment
Explained

THE current number of 1.-THE Albany Med
ical Annals" contains a paper which was
read before the Medical Society of Albany
County by its author, Dr. William G Levi
on the subject of "HIgh Frequency Elee-
tricity" The writer says that the theia-
peutic possibilities Of high frequency eiec-
trIcIty'' attracted his attention ABOUT nVe
years ago, but as all the work in that dlre'-
tion had, UP TO that time, been done Oy
English and French physicians. VINO mao
not published their records, and as the
claims made for the agent had been e1as-
gerated and unsupported. he had to investl-
gate for himself and to that end fnstaiieo
an apparatus. The result of his Work win
it, which exceeded he said, his hopes
and expectations, forms the basis OF the
article.
az have been able" writes DR.. Levi. ito
cure or benefit many conditions OF varying
natures that had resisted all other 1orilis
of medical treatment and had been re1erred
to surgeons for operation as the only means
of relief or cure, and have been able 10
markedly shorten the course OF treatment
necessary to cure one class of cases-locaI
infections-at the same time preventing the
infection from invading healthy tissues
In answer to the natural question: How
are these results brought about? the
writer says by means Of the high IRE
quency current We are able to produce at
any point of the body that can be reached
by electrode hyPeraenhia which Is
absolutely within our control. and which
persists after the treatment from one 10
twenty-four hours or longer. according TO
the conditions This hyperamia can be
controlled to such nicely that 1t can be
diameter or extended all over the body. 1t
is needless for me here to recite the ad-
vantages OF hyperama as therapeutic aid,
especially in infections and iniammations.
or tc discuss the relative merits of the diff
ferent theories propounded, but whether
because of the leucocytosis or the produc-
ton of the anti-bodies, the effects are de-
cided. But the effects of a high frequency
hvnerseuia are far more potent than those
of hyperamia produced in any other way
and this is without doubt due to an as yet
unexplained electrical action OF a germicldai
nature Remember, we are dealing Win d
current of enormous Voitage-any"he'
from 100000 to 1000, ,O00-but very low ahlpei
age However little or much we kno" vi
electricity-in general-We are aDSoiutolS
safe and sure in saying that the high fire.
ouencv current as used therapeuticaIly is
absolutely harmless in careful hands, and
the statement of the first French inVestlga-
tors thai IL makes for constructive metaD-
olisrn' is abundantly proved By the ieei-
ing of wellheing that patients lnVarlaol!
report after only a few treatments ana lhe
apparent Improvement in the generdl con-
dition."
A number of cases Of cure are mentiohep'
among them this one: A woman Of thirty
- cIIrT
An Inflammation of the articulation of the
Jaw. She could open her mouth quarter
of an inch The nigh frequency electricity
vas applied, and after twenty-five days the
woman regained the use of her jaw, meas
urements showing space of one inch and
a half between the teeth when the mouth
was open" Here follows the history of a
number OF cases of tuberculous glands, all
of which, the writer says, responded TO
his form of treatment. Dr. Levi speaks or
"a series OF cases of tuberculous adenits
as the most notable class. because IN none
of those have we failed to get a complete
cure. BY complete cure l mean either
total Disappearance OF the gland or glands
and this without any scar whatsoever or
else TO have remaining-and this has been
the case only in those of long standing-a
tiny mass of connective tissue
In closing. DR.. Levi says: 1T is my
opinion, based on an experience extending
over four years. during which have treat
ed a great variety of cases not mentioned
herein, that high frequency electricity as
thera peutic agent has come to stay, and
have no regret for the time I have dc
voted to developing 1t In my own way. AS
a therapeutic agent IL is far more potent
than anv other single agent that Is within
my knowledge and its possibilities are I'M
limited"