The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-06-06
Electricity Kills Cancer.

At least six European physicians
of international fame have recently
reported that cancer can be killed,
which also means cured, by the ap-
plication of electric currents of
high frequency and low ten
sion. The method Is technically
called diathermy, meaning with or
by means of heat" "
. AS this Immediately suggests, the
electricity kills the cancer by turn
ing into heat and literally cooking
the vitality and the venom out Of
the cancer cells. This Is actually
what does happen, and it can b" done
without injury to the rest If the
body because the cancerous sections
die at temperature much below the
point where healthy human tissue
commences to be injured by heat.
The healthy human cells are aot
killed until temperature near the
boiling point is reached and the can
Ger cells are killed about 40 de-
grees below this point. The new
|, method is simply TO localize in the
body near the cancer an electric cur
rent of high frequency and low ten
sion.
This is done so that .he heat
reaches>2 point where the cancer
cells die, but the healthy cells re-
main uninjurtd. In this manner
concers of +he nose and throat and
the surface cancers have beer COM
pletely cured. Such cases are said
already to number far up in the
hundreds.
The process Dc said to require the
NEST minute care and the very high
est sort Of surgical dexterity. AS
result only specialists of lor,g and
careful training can venture ON this
sort of treatment One vital point
is that the heat, thus introduced into
/ the body, does not sperad itself
throughout the body as ordinary heat
conducts itself.
In the process the heat from the
peculiar electric current is produced
| in the interior of the tissues which
are being treated. 1t Is produced
in so rapid and in so intense man
ner that the circulation Of the blood
fails to carry it off to any important
extent. 1t results from this that the
great heat remains absorbed by the
diseased tissues, and it Is enabled
to attack and kill the hideous cnn-
Ger cells without injuring the re-
mainder Of the body.
1t is a marvellous process. For
instance, after cancer Of the throat
is treated thus, She section subjected
to the. current stays hot for many
hours, while the body In general
has no elevated temperature. When
there are bones near the cancer thus
treated, these bones remain very hot
for whole day because the bones,
being almost solid, naturally cool
off much shower than the flesh
Such j. called the destructive
methci q treating cancer by diath-
ermy, or the electric current or
enormous frequency and low ten
sion. The same method may be
used to simply raise the temperature
10 or IL degrees above the remain
der of the body This calls the
blood TO the infected part and pro-
duces general and vsry oeneficiaf
flushing Of the parts about the cam
GER.
AS a result much Of the poisonous
material thrown off by the cancer Is
cleaned up by the healthy blood
cells. The process is difficult and so
far demands most special and expert
handling, but it seems to hold out a
sure hope that few years from now
many cancers can be cured which to-
day are only attacked by the knife
in most cases, and which are usually
considered fatal.