The Elk Mountain pilot., 1921-09-08
RADIUM TO CURE ILLS
OF WORLD, SAYS DIR. DAVIS

hadlum is to rescue humanity from
its manifold ills, according to Chas.
Gilbert Davis, M. D., LII. D., eminent
Chicago physician and surgeon, foun-
der of Waunita Hot Springs resort,
who spoke in the Congregational
church Sunday evening on Radium.
Although civilization has been turned
back 5000 years by alcohol which has
caused war and it's hideous results,
made mankind insane and plunged
the world into vice, crime, disease
and attendant evils, radium will ul-
timately cure all and bring mankind
to the golden Eutopia.
DIR. Davis said that we are living
in new era; that in which woman
has been freed and it is noticeable
that woman, Madame Curie, at the
beginning of this era, made the most
amazing discovery of all time. In
1898 Madame Curie discovered and
demonstrated radium, the greatest
| discovery in the scientific world 1t
has added 80 new elements, opened
up great field of study, and given
years of life to women. 1t has aided
the practice of medicine 100 fold.
DR.. Davis said if he were called upon
to discard radium or all other instru-
mentalities used in medicine, he
would keep radium and throw all else
away. This is strong statement.
1t has made wonderful advances in
surgery. Thousands of bloody opera
tions formerly performed are now
eliminated by the use of radium. 1t
has been five years since he has per-
formed an operation for tumor. They
are now removed by radium.
1t is the greatest discovery since
the dawn of history.
What is radium? One of the 100
elements. 1t is a metal, like gold and
silver. 1t is hardly ever seen in the
pure state. 1t is usually found as a
salts. 1t is so effervescent, irritat-
ing and corroding that it has to be
carefully protected with shield. The
bromide salt is the most common
form. Other things also give out en-
anations, uranium thorium, etc. Lead
itself is degenerate form of radium.
Radium is found all over the world
in small quantities. The supply of
Europe is nearly exhausted and
America must furnish the bulk here
after.
Radium is found in both sedimen-
tary and volcanic formations.
Radium is also found in the sea,
in springs and rivers and there are
emnations from the earth. 1t is in
the air. Ozone has much of it and
therefore the air over the Rocky
mountains has more radium in it than
anywhere else in the world. This
demonstrates that we have great ra-
dium beds here.
Radium has three uses, illumina-
tion, fertilization and medicinal. A
piece the size of pin head, if it
could be properly controlled, would
give enough force to light the city of
London, one year.
1t has three rays, Alpha, Beta and
Gamma. They all kill bacteria. They
penetrate matter through the inter
molecular spaces. They change OK
ygen into ozone. The alpha rays
Alpha rays are charged with positive
electricity. One gram of radium
bromide will discharge ten thousand
million rays a second
The Beta rays are charged with
negative electricity.
They travel 10000 million miles
second They are used in medi-
cine.
The gamma rays are longer and
stronger. They travel 100000 million
pulsations and vibrations of ether.
They will penetrate foot of solid
iron. They heal and destroy diseased
animal cells They produce 2s8,00o
trillion vibrations a second. They
shake the molecules up and destroy
them. Properly confined they cure.
There are many radium springs
like Waunita, which are of great cur
ative value. A tube of the gas bub-
ling from these springs will cause a
burn on the body.
Scientists estimate from the gas
given off by the earth that there are
24O0 tons of radium in the earth.
When fresh from the earth the gas
is potent After three weeks it loses
it's strength. 1t is believed that ra-
dium in the earth causes the heat
which is given off in volcanos, hot
springs, etc.
Radium is used as an illumination
for watches, gun sights, signs, etc.