New Aid to Medicine.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 5 July 1910, Page 4

New Aid to Medicine.

EXORMOUS ELECTRICAL

POWER

A nw cure for many kinds of internal diseases aaid a new end to surgery iliave been (found in the application of an enormously powerful electrical current, such as is used for wireless telegraphy, to tiro humian body. The firm of electricians, Messrs Siemens and Halske, have invented and placed on the manket .am apparatus whereby such curents can be passed through the lnmNwi! body wiitihout producing any detrimental consequences. When the current is iiiltrodiieod into the body tliere is no convulsive movement of the limbs, and mo otlher efFect than So produce warmth. Tt ri.s now claimed that the application of tlie current to any diseased internal organ may produce a heal 1 nig effect. In surgery the application oif tilio current to the part of the body to be operated on will produce sterilisation and prevent l>lood~pois!oning. Tt would -be premature to assume nit this stage tint the new cure can nccmnplwh all tlhe wonders attributed to it, but it has 'been fovonrn:hly received iby the medical scientists of Germany. One of them, Dr. Pnnl Meaner, says it "opens an endless visions of medical possibilities."