NEW CURE FOR APPENDICITIS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 378, 28 April 1908, Page 4

NEW CURE FOR APPENDICITIS

Electricity Replaces tfce Knife. Nnw York, March 1. If a newly-discovercd cure for appendicitis turns out to be as certain as it seems, the knife of the surgeon will soon have lost another of its uses and humanity may keep possession of its appendixes for ever. Dr Harvey Archibald, of this city, has discovered that appendicitis yields to the action of electricity pretty nearly as mists are dsssipated by the sun. When a case ot appendicitis comes into Dr Archibald’s office the physician trains the powerfully penetrating ray upon the sore spot, Right away the swelling goes down, and the excruciating pains stop short. And after five or six days, “after five or six applications,’’ Dr Archibald says the cure is always complete. “The new cure is so childishly simple that I would' never have come upon it except by the meiest luck,” the physician said. “It is nothing more or less than the process of bombarding tiie conjestiou about the appendix with violet electric rays and a high frequency current. The treatment causes the blood to return to the central circulation system ; the conjeslion departs for the simple reason that the cause of the conjestiou has been removed —and that’s the end of the appendicitis.”