RADIO IN MEDICINE.
TREATMENT OF FNEUMDNIA. EXPERIMENTS IN AMERICA. TORONTO, January 18. ; That the use of radio may prevent the after-effects of pneumonia is the substance of an announcement by Professor MacLennan, of Toronto University, who forecasts that medical science has achieved another great victory. The danger of collapse, following a pneumonia crisis, caused by inability of the body to attain the required temperature, is expected to be overcome by the results of recent observations at the General Electric Laboratories, Schenectady, he says. It was recently observed that operators who were experimenting on the long wave apparatus, built for radio, suddenly had a tremendous rise in temperature. It soon became apparent that if the waves were controlled, and applied to the sodium chloride (salt) in the blood, there was a marked absorption, and the temperature increased up to a given point. ■■ . It is believed that an application or these waves at any temperature required to destroy the different diseaseforming organisms can be produced without danger to the patient.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 48, Issue 93, 30 January 1928, Page 7
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