The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-26

claimed that the waters from the mines
have a special value in the treatment
OF eubacute. and especially Of chronic.
rheumatism of the joints and the
muscles, for govt, diabetes and various
forms OF neuralgia OF a rheumatic or
equity nature. II is also claimed that
the waters are beneficial in the cases
Of chronic catarrh Of the mucous mem
branes. slight paralysis, anemia, chic
rosis. Emphatic disorders and diseases
Of women"
The waters taken at the spring are
apt to be very different in their
action from the same waters bottled.
shipped afar and drunk days, if not
months later. Upon this point re-
port Of the United States Bureau of
Mines says that radium emanation is
apt to be fleeing unless special pro-
vision is made for its capture and re-
tention. For example, radium emana-
ton loses half its strength m 3.S days.
That is to say. after 3S days half OF
the gas has changed into dislntegration
all OF It has changed into dsntegra-
ton products. At the end Of one month
all of 1t has changed and there is no
cmanation left
The radio therapist can now dupli-
cate anywhere the boon of natures
radio active bath or spring. and, wha,
is quite as important, he can regulate
either by diminution or intensification
the therapeutic value OF the water he
wishes to employ. But this new field
of medicine has discovered still another
way in which to utilize radiums emana-
ton. Not by drinking, in the ordinary
sense Of the term. but by inhaling the
wonder working gas. just as ozone
and stimulating oxygen are now given
to those requiring them. Such is
mainly the form of treatment adopted
by the New York emanatorium.
The curative action of inhaled emana-
ton is practically Identical with that
of kindred measure absorbed in water
by drinking and it has the advantage of
doing its work where the drinking of
the water might have its drawbacks.
Again, the manner of getting into the
circulatory system is more direct pass
ing as 1t does from the lungs into the
heart and thence throughout the body
via the arteries, and reaching quickly
in this fashion every vital portion of the
organism. The emanation mingles with
the life stream and gradually pcrmeates
the entire system, stimulating the or
gans to normal action where they lag
breaking down various abnormal mani
festations; and transforming insoluble
salts which the system cannot dislodSe
50 that they are carried off.
When the physician Is in doubt as to
the cause of any pain he promptly
places the burden of responsibility upon
that pathological drayhorse rheuma-
tism, rheumatism is thus n fairly elas-
tic cloak for "A wide variety Of human
ills, but when the trouble is finally sifted
down To its actual promoter, the careful
man of medicine finds uric acid COM
monty responsible.
Uric acid Is metimes cast out of the
circulation by some unwisc act of ours
and is deposited in the form Of minute
crystals, at points where it sets up irri-
tatioa and pain, commonly at the joints
Now these tiny granules are insoluble
the circulation will not reabsorb them
|, and carry them away.
| But radium emanatiOn taken i'm b,
way OF the lungs gives the arterial blood
new power, or. To be more exact, the
emanation, carried by the blood to tn,
> seat OF trouble. probably transforms tn,