The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-09-18
RADIUN IN WATERS,
OUR OPPORTUNITY
THE RESORT AND GOVERNMENT
SHOULD ACT PROMPTLY TO
GET EFFECTIVE RESULTS.
We Have Here the Mystical Cure For
Which Billions of Dollars Have
Been Expended in Europe in the
Past. n.
Editor Sentinel4Record:

Editor Sentinel4Record:
In the Washington Star of Septeln.
Der appears an interview with Sur
geon General Rupert Blue, head of
the United States public health SER
vice, which is of the highest impor-
lance to Hot Springs on account of
the fact that our springs are all high.
ly charged with radium emanation Ga
gas).
DIR. Blue says more than 100000
900 annually expended by American
heath seekers, who during recent
years have felt themselves dependent
upon European spas, will be diverted
to American resorts, where as effica-
cious treatment can be obtained. lie
says the waters of American springs
charged with radium already are pre-
pairing to care for these patients,
suggesting an unexpected use for this
rare element, whose curative proper
ties in the treatment of cancer were
given widespread publicity through
discussion in congress recently.
Commenting on the closing of the
German and other spas on account Of
the war, upon which so many Ameri-
cans felt themselves absolutely de-
pendent, Or. Blue said there is really
no occasion for uneasness about
closing of the baths abroad, as we
have springs in this country that pos
sess amazing curative properties.
The spas to which Dr. Blue has ref
erence are Carlsbad, Baden Baden,
Nauheim, Wiesbaden, Pistyan, and
Gastein They are very popular with
wealthy Americans, victims OF rheu-
matism and govt.
The fame of these springs is CEN
turtles old, but it is of comparatively
recent date that their curative prop
critics have been found to depend on
radium carnations.
The discovery of radium by
Madam Currie, and the subsequent
demonstrations of it's wonderful ply
steal properties, gave rise to the
theory that what had been known rs
the spirit of the Springs might
claim this almost supernatural SUD
stance as its origin. Careful investi-
! cation changed this theory into fact,
and led to the perfection Of mecha-n
ism whereby one billionth of MILL
gram can be recognized as measured.
Because of these facts it is pointed
/ out here by government scientists
that in view of the situation in Eu-
rope, it is practically certain that
radium baths in the United States
viii supplant the European spas.
From the foregoing statements OF
DR.. Blue we happily find ourselves in
the fortunate position of possessing
the precious panacea for the relief OF
mankind.
The Hot Springs of Arkansas are
all radio active to a marked degree
and the demonstrations have all been
made by the United States govern
ment.
In 1905 the department of the inte-
: rior, responding to the recommends
ton of the superintendent OF the res
ervation, employed Profs. B. B. Bolt
wood and Joseph Hyde Pratt, chem
lists, of New Haven, Conn, to under
take this work, who after several
months of careful Investigation of the
Hot Springs concluded their work
and made their final and compete re-
port to the government.
The report, being of great length
and essentially scientific and tech
nical, has not been published In de-
tail. as yet, but for the benefit OF the
public the department of the interior
published an abstract of the report
which abstract concludes with the
quotations as follows:
"The following conclusions are
reached by DR.. Boltwood as the re-
suit Of his in investigations:
First. The waters Of the Hot
Springs on the United States reser-
walton are all highly radio active to
a marked degree.
Second. The radio activity Of the
waters is due to dissolved radum
emanation "a gas) and not to the
presence of salts of radium or other
radio active solids"
In addition to the above work by
| Dr. Boltwood Drs. Hunt and Franklin
of the public health service were as
! signed to the work (1913) of making
another test of the radio active prop
critics of the waters and their inyes-
LEGATIONS confirmed and corroborated
the splendid results of DR.. Boltwood
who now is considered the highest
authority on radium in the United
! States. Also in line with the above
! examinations, Prof. Herman Schlundt
| of the University of Missouri, another
! high class radum expert OF this
country, made tests of the tufa de-
posits from the springs here, and
states GU. S. Bulletin S95, Geological
! Survey that the radium content of
these deposits to be three times as
| active as the famous springs at Bath,