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Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1928, Page 1

WIRELESS AS a CURB. NEW YORK, Alav 25. Electrical .science once again promises to. lend its aid to the world of medicine. Two American scientists arc testing the value of short wave-length wireloss broadcasting apparatus as a cure for general parlaysis. Tlie bacilli of this disease cannot live when tii blood is at a high temperature, and previous treatments, notably by Dr Wagner von Jauregg, of Vienne, have been made by injecting malaria germs into tlie blood of the patient, the intention being to kill the bacilli of the particular form of paralysis. This treatment, however, is very diilfioult fx) .control.i With the new treatment the bleed temperature can be raised and properly controlled at the same time.* ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY. Tlie discovery came accidentally. It was noticed that men working in the General Electric Company's works became faint and ill when they were operating six metre wireless sets. The heating effect of the waves was tested with a solution, and the discovery made that a six-metre wavelength apparatus gave suitable results.

It is believed that a high temperature can he produced locally upon the skin with this’ new apparatus.

Scientists are careful in their statements regarding the medical value of this treatment, but Rockefeller Institute is now expermenting with it.

SEVEN TONS OF GOLD. , LONDON, Afay 30. , Gold worth £1.306,060 in 106 sealed barrels was unloaded at Paddington Station, yesterday, while passengers hurried by unaware of its existence. Tt bad come from New York in the Cunard liner Alauretania and was unloaded at Plymouth into a special windowless coach with iron sides and an iron door. The barrels stacked inside, each about ISin. high and a foot across weighed 7 tons 15 cwt.