Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-12
TAKING THE RADlUM CURE.
After One Treatment Felt Like Writ
mo Columns About Il. -

/ have had my first radium treatment
today, writes a Paris correspondent to q
London paper. / feel not at all the worse
for it. ON tho contrary. [ feel like writ
! ing columns about it. 1t is the most
marvellous treatment | have ever seen.
DIR. Frumesan. whose radilm installation
] described the other day, invited me to
| attend one of the first seances. [ found
myself in drawing room with a mem
| Der of the English afistooracy. Lady Y,
distinguished Italian principessa, ana
| half Il dozen other distinguished ladies
and geltnemen. We were mutually intro
duced. We tried to look pleasant Soon
we were good acquaintances, and we had
n game of bridge.
All this was happening while we We're
going Nthrough our radium treatment DR..
, Frumesan alone was very busy. Every
| 10 or Is minutes he entered the room and
set something going in a curious white
Iacquered radiator III corner of the
room, where ventilator was sending
emanations of radum through the apart
ment lie also attended to the proper
supply of oxygen and saw that the win
dows and doors were Dramatically closed
and that their packing and padding was
intact. All this time wheel Went round.
and we felt the air impregnated with
nothing at all unless perhaps a nice,
pleasant freshness. On a big table there
were novels and books of travel Those
who wished could read, and those who
preferred something else could play cards.
I INDUCED in bridge with the English
lady and the principessa. l soon won
the first game. and then the others had
| to play for the revanehe,
The radium treatment is not difficult
treatment at all. 1t is eXquisiteIy simple
and perfectly delightful when we had
finished our game of bridge l read one
of the numerous pamphlets on the radium
| cure which lay on the table, There [ saw
| the following statement by Or. J. de No
| belle, professor of the University OF
Client.
=, THE treatment of radium emanations
| inhaled through the lungs seems indi-
Gated in the following cases: Articulal
rheumatism, muscular rheumatism, acute
or chronic rheumatism, govt, uric diathe-
sis, sciatic neuralgia, and myoeardits
and endocardite affections-that IS to say
in all inflammatorv affections of the
heart, and in general in all arthritic az
fections.'
In another place I read the obserya.
/ lions OF DR.. His Out of 100 eases OF
chronic rheumatism. IL showed improve
ment, . evinced remarkable improve
nent, five We're almost completely cured
and IS showed no sign of amelloration
/ We did not have all those terrible mani
festations described in the book but al
of us had mare or less been in the griE
of that terrible fiend rheumatism which
pays us his annual unwelcome visit al
the beginning of every winter, The ra-
dunn limitations. it seems. put that fend
to fight. The emanations of radium
which we inhale into our lungs get into
our blood There they fight the uric acid
corpuscles, or what ever scientists cal
them. They vanquish, dissolve, ana
drive out the Objectionable urate, and al
that happens while we gossip over the
latest society news. play bridge or poker
or read Eugene sue.
/ DR. Frumesan LOW has two seances pei
day He is getting numerous letters OF
application and will have to enlarge his
sphere The best thing. in fact, would be
To engage a big suite of apartments and
invite Tout Paris TO tea and bridge while
taking the radium cure.-Boston Herald