Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-30
CANCER CONQUERED.
Electric Fulsuration Prevents the Re-
currence of the Dread Disease.

! Baltimore, according to physicians
of the Maryland homeopathic Hospi-
tai has taken the lead in America in
/ using the electric spark, for the full
guration treatment. for cancer. In
some quarters it is claimed that this
treatment is being introduced into
| America for the first time by DR.. De-
Heating Hart of France The Mary
land homeopathic Hospital is now
constructing a building which will be
used exclusively for the cancer cases
! DR.. c. Hauer E.verhart. who is con-
nected with this hospital. said yester-
| day that this treatment had been
practised successfully here for the last
three years He went to France TO
study this method under DR.. +. Doy-
+, en-, a member of the French Academy
of Science in Paris. DIR. Harris meth
/ cd is TO use static electricity, whereas
IDr. Everhart stated that he uses
different method not because the stat
| ic method is now TO him, but because
he considers his method better
| In explanation of his treatment DR.,
| Eyerhart said:
/; I'VE obtain a high-freduencY cur
trent, which is utilized for fulgurationi
by passing the current through res.
| inator. We remove the growth, as does
DR.. Hart, and this is followed ny al
/ application of superheated air for the
| drying of the tissues, TO make then
i mere receptive for the fulguration,'
/ When asked what he thought of the
| Hart method DIR. Everhart said: Not
| having seen DIR. Harris work. | am no
prepared to say anything definite con-
/ corning the report that the fulguration
/ treatment is now being introduced in
\ To America, but / can say that it has
/ been used successfully right here in
| Baltimore for the last three years.
| And regarding the priority of the
4 treatment, a Scotchman in the seven
| teenth century claimed to cure cancer
by spark of fractional, or static, cleo
tricity.''
| These statements We're brought out
BY The demonstration by Or. Hart be-
: fore a body of medical men in New
(, York interested in cancerous diseases
/ the use of the fulguration treatment.
DIR. Hart has been called over here
! from Marseilles after the New York
Skin and Cancer Hospital acquired
| one of his elaborately constructed full
guration apparatuses. He was re-
auested TO teach the American sur
geons how to use 1t.
/ The general theory of the treatment
is that after q malignant tuinor has
been removed the healthy cells that
| surrounded it are made By sparks of
! extremely high static electricity for
! ever incapable of again being able 10
harbor and promulgate caneerous
germs. The person who has received
the treatment is believed 70 be as free
from cancer as one who has never had
it.
In the amphitheatre of the Skin and
Cancer Hospital in New York a score
of physicians gathered, robed in am
tiseptic garb. their heads we'll covered,
| and watched a half-dozen operations
for the removal of cancer. Most OF
them were for affection OF the face.
At one time three operations were go
ling on simultaneously. DIR. Hart stooe
with the conductor of the electrical
machine in his hand. As each tumol
was removed he applied his treatment
Sparks of great tineness but extreme
briliancy shot from the instrument
into the caVitV made by the surgeon!
knife He explained that science hat
discovered that these SPARKS so ching
ed the healthy cells upon which tn
cancer had grown that they would b.
entirely different in their nature ant
: | the recurrence of the disease would b.
| made impossible The microscope ha
| shown this to be the case, but
strange feature is that the current ap
| pears To have no effect upon the dis
) | ea sod cells themselves. If even TIL
minutest part of the turnor is ailowe'
( TO remain ii propagates and continue
to grow. The surgeon yesterday there
: fore took the greatest care to see tina
the extirpation Of the complete canoe
had been effected before he apple
. his electrical treatment.
The way in which the fulguratio
theory has been developed is one {
the most interesting stories of science
;, 1t began with mere curiosity. and wa
- | carried Oh by those who delyed int
:, science for its own sake. A long Will
- ago it was noticed that in the sand
= | soil of certain places short tubes weI
= formed that had az protecting sides
material that seemed to be entirel
! different from the sand itself. 1t wa
~ finally learned that these were mad
2 by lightning that when striking burne
out the sand and changed in a myst,
rious way the adjacent particle
These became known as fagarites.
Later artificial ones were made !
20 the electrical current TWAS though
to be nothing more than scientif
amusement. DR.. Hart saw the poss
bility OF using this knowledge to fig