Gilpin observer., 1914-05-14
SCIENCE AND ITS PARASITES
BY e. Zimmerman


er after health turning helplessly to
fakirs who prey upon him, lying in
wait to rob him on the very thres-
hold OF the grave.
! The presence of death is no bar
to the sinister methods of men who
presume to decent name and who,
back of seemingly fair reputation,
give their influence and their sup
port to the foisting on the public
of fake remedy companies hoping to
add to their incomes at the expense
of dying men. There is something
sublime in the noble fight for life,
and fortune when it is conducted in
the open and on a fair field, as man
against man. But the Gods must weep
at the tragic sight of strong men
turning to the helpless for tie gain;
promising wonderful cures where cure
is impossible; holding out brilliant
promises of future filled with buoy
ant health and life when the most
casual eye can discern the sombre
features of merciful death standing
guard beside the victim of such a
ffendish plot. For plot it must be
characterised and every man who
lends his support to the promoting
and conducting of a patent medicine
company which they we'll know is a
fake from the very inception, is as
~ nrda
cut throat.
/ am informed on the most reliable
authority that not less than five hun
dred radium products and radium
water companies, claiming to manu-
facture radium water and other REM
edies for the cure of all human ills
have been prosecuted, or absolutely
suppressed at the very start by the
ever watchful government.
This alert government of ours has
been well warned that science pur-
sues progress with fakirs yawping at
the heels of the scientists. No great
er wrongs are not planned. The pow.
er for good which is promised in ra-
dium is far outshadowed by the hun
dreds who would use it for ill by
foisting on the public patent medi-
cine companies claiming to manufac-
ture radium waters and radium pro-
ducts.
In the first place, at this writing,
it has been found not only impract-
icable, but impossible to manufacture
radium water of sufficient strength
to be of any medicinal value. This
statement will be challenged by the
, thoughtless or the chagrined. But ma
ture has her wonders and she has
her own ways to perform them.Sci-
entists have attested that in order
to produce radium water from radium
bearing ore, that the ore and water
must be in equilibrium; in other
words, an exact amount of each.
There are difficulties in the way OF
combining two separate and distinct
elements within the confines of one.
In plain words one and one make
two and to be in equilibrium, the
water and the ore must be equal Be
it a thimble full or a hogshead, they
cannot be combined as one. Yet, ma
ture has her way of producing with.
in the earth the result impossible
for man to produce. The water from
an underground fissure, at the point
of entrance into the mine, or an un.
derground spring can be highly charg
ed with radioactivity. Taken from
its source of supply. it loses its pow
er and though the ore be taken out
also, 1t cannot be artificially charg.
ed into the water to produce suffici-
ent strength for medicinal value. II
such thing were possible the gov
ernment of Austria would not have
spent one and one-half millions build.
ing a sanitarium over the springs at
, st. Joachimsthal-the most inaccess.
ible spot on earth almost, but would
ship this water from the radio o-active
springs.
In order to secure the benefits from
radioactive water, one must come to
the springs. 1t has been found i'm
possible to ship such water, as It
rapidly loses its radio-activity. More
than one-half the strength. no mat.
ter how highly charged, having been
lost within four days after 1t has
reached the highest possible point at
which II NAV ha chargod Thine "A
will be seen that the many compan,
les which claimed to have the ore tc
produce this water, or other products
are necessarily misrepresenting. In
the first place 1t Is next to impossi
BILE to secure a great amount of the
ore and the use of emanators has
also been found highly unsatisfactory