The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-25
cgRATIYE POWERS OF RADIUH
y,,iiI az THELIE YEARS OF
\PTRINENr.
,,.r ......r, lei u tannot Cure Hind
Co.,. ~ anrrr success On the Treat
....r = skin Diseases Claims That
r... stood the Hard Test sf Time.

, .,..r- Of eager experiment
since Prof. and Nine. Curie
'H" discovery Of radium.
.," reports Of th. c,irativ q
new mineral were pub
album after twelve years
thar early reputation?
..-r'i states IN which radium
r'-i siys tho London Daily
from the most malignan I
.'.nrS To badness. such widely
'"nt' ~ facial paralysis.
r"Inatism. hydrophobia. in
,-.. nd skin Diseases have been
-...... .- ,ured Ivy the wonderful new
-rr.- tow years ago reports of a
.f-. yirrphobia IN rabbits presented
L. PHI. r"ntIhc Academy Of Bologna
p, ,1nwu Italian professor ev oked
-. ...'..I-II>m that II was freely con-
.s..-.. that rho Pas,aur treatment Of
tyi- rhn would soon be- pushed into
r. .. , ground by the new radium treat
rl..'
,. wears ago two distinguished
rr.t-,or, II hnniGsherg University
vt.-..i som" startling results of the
d.. . fleet tn" rddium rays exert on
cr..t-. htrt"ria 1T all kinds Having
s~-' -y-ruklni live typhoid hacilli on
s.rtr1" plat" they exposed the plate
~ t.rs rnom IN weak radium emana-
T. r- fur forty-eight hours. At the end
q, rrr- time II WAS found that the bacilli
were si'hsr killed ut their growth was
o.ual"r"lv stopped, similar good re-
:, lee We're obtained with the germs Of
e.. Ira and anthrax. These expert
nr,l assA
s.-r,rIt1 effect 81 radium were looked
uf.ru A. nDening up new field Of treat,
rrer' 'rr Infections diseases Of the skin.
~ lH,3 4 distinguished st. Petersburg
ant aurounced in various medical
,r.~naI- bl> discovery that cert Iin Of
- nrnd warr all" 40 distin g,iish objects
lll.~u"i hy raturn rays.
o." professor expressed the strong
h.,a mat nv further experiment alton
v,'l tho wonderful element he would
p" luI" ~ restore the sight to sufferers
= rI .c-- lin varieties OF blindness.
In"~e published reports were taken
INST seriously IN German scientific cir
C.- - much 10 that Prof Greet. the
:, a.lydl II the Eye Hospital AT the Ber-
lr University. was inst ructed by the
Prl-elan Minister Of Education TO go
r..-ruGhly into the Russian doctors
Z, p.rim.nf-
.rs plH,lished reports (many Of them
a. .r-utabl. medical journals, of appar-
..'.r authentic cures OF deep seated
,-'.rr- bo,h the carcinomata and sar-
,r,Ia,a. b. the Use of radiuin were during
'." '.lrl" years Of redIum experimental
p 'r" numerous TO record.
.. 90 Jrcsc therapeutic uses claimed
:, u.llum. how many have stood the
t.. - Imc.
Frederick Trcves in 4 lecture Al the
+ con Eo-pit Al last year summed up
'r. -.,uE on IN a way which should give
B. 81 tor thought 10 the general public.
geo are too app TO be led away in pursuit
81 ain hope5
..r has appeared to me. he told the
-..... cCncours. Of medical men present
..- here ~ possibly great future for
tuir ~ n" dofnEin of surgical thera-
i,Ir.r- -ay possibly bccanse one must
e. .'rcl-e he very greatest caution when
"aklng Of the pot"ntIuhtIe- Of new RENE.
dos one il tempted to look TOO favora
upon them. They are things Of great
p..ctatIons and sooner or lai-r must b.
a--ocIaied with disappointment
u-..- Of radium which were To revolution
30 both medicine and surgery. few have.
e. m. up TO their earlier expectations
rheumatism and neuralgia are stall most
.u'r..ctabls ailments, facial paralysis still
u-.,- he physician efforts. tbs, Pastrur
la tI-. has not outgrown it, usefulness.
.I- ordinary germic Ides are still in
..mmun us. not withsranding the deadly
Elects which radIum "inanation- are
krpwn 10 hav. on bacteria
Tho hope which was held out 10 the
! nj by III. Russian experimental wa-
'hirawn with cruel audiences when
'a" German eve specialist who Invest-
ra'a,i tn" cures rep lied tina. bind
persons cannot az present expect IN" very
Ehr"-t help from radium-
IN" thousands Of sufferers from true
cancer both in Europ. and America who
haze. lei the time when an operation might
have been successful drift by. while under
long -radium cures" compos. one Of
80. -adde-i chapters in the history Of
It's wonderful element
EailUm, a. al present used. cannot
Gar" cancer
l'l-a relief to turn from such failures Ia
'.- IDLY Of those morbid cond.f ions N
as.A ralium has fully proven practical
C..lsr.ye value. Broadly its greatest |
= lrHss-.- have been in the treatment |
; r"nIyn superficial skin LESSONS. Dis !
p rl.lg birthmark- composed chiefly Of |
lam ~,1 ed blood vessels. old scars which !
...sn 'Is"n on an abnormal growth. GER
.. forms 81 lupus "a very chronic and
.r- -...ut form 81 'ubercle Of the skim
10. d n"r'atn types Of eczema have been
f.....i ~ raiium in a shorter time and
...N ..-,- inconvenience land distgure-
'.... ruan would have been possible by
-. . Their known means.
r.I.uT ulcer also surprisingly good
-.- have. been obtained. case- which
..,n..l all other treatment for months
....r. -pru.'imes healing rauidly under
-.pr-ITes.
,u.. superficial skin cancers. the
.rI. "a authorities differ. some
-,I"cp@-es from TadIum trea.
so DrhorS only "A disheartsning
failures In respect 70 the true
i...J sea ed rapidly fatal growths.
..- f even its most ardent sup
...c ~ the most modest character.
.. you'd he difficult to find rep
.rs"1n IN London who would
amer pate Will" in an oper-
f .... 90 posi- pone eHci-Ion by the knif..