HYDRO-SURGERY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 157, 4 July 1940, Page 6

HYDRO-SURGERY.

A NEW PHENOMENON.

WATER GETS THROUGH SKIM. OBTE IEKIOC9 OBJECTIOK. (By THOMAS R. ETES"E.Ti. WAS'Eiy'TIOHi. Water jet <uiTyp.>-y. a hitherto raiwaspeeted way of jgatunx tkriMuA the akia wtr.lii-Mit breaking .-.. »aa dewcribuii for tie first time to tin* !fat.iT«!iia.[ Ai»deniy α-f Sciences her* to-day.

Excremely fine needles oi water pnjpelied wrth i fotT.e of L.».oWib per square inck will jo thronjfji tke intevstioea of

:ae jupponedly w*certig&* kußian. akiTi *nd penetrate tfae naderijvag; tiaeiaes, it wn aanoumeeiX by Dt:*. O. Failla. and X. B. Foiaom, of Memorial HiiwpiitaL, Xw» York. Tkia rwwij-dliscmrereil pfaeon'meTKViu thwy expiainedj may prove of some valise in the treatment of caacar, althfflnigfa. aa yet itij iti MgMy experimentAl atajre.

A rscentiy proposed techakpra * to mtrwdjice water into a maliarmnt. tn.mour befogs boaiberdia^ , it with S-rays. The water *er. like pU.nr.ed b<7ol bs in the teaae. Stniefc by ttte X-rayri they send oat fragTnent* to- hit and kiil nearby cella. The t.R<:b3iir{Tia Tip to tite present inaa been to water into the tnalijrnant growtli by means o>f an

extremely enaaH me*idSe.

Tksriag the paat two- or tliree years fanradxed* of "artificial radruma" have b«ea produKwi by bom-bardment of atoma. Soaie of ties* earn b* ofctainad ia th* form of liquid eotetioTie or sobpeiaiona. Best effecta are prodnced if tJsey ea.a actßttlly be pwfe inaide a cancer. The ne-w water jut. aergery offera the beat method of gettrag them there.

The teckEtififHe £r-t occurred to them, the Jfe-w York dfDctors said, from o4*ervatimii of a enrieaa In jury to cnl worfcars, working with oil nnder higfa preßsiire. The partiieiea af oil were fonfld in tiaaraea at 90m* diata.ru'ee uasder the ektn» T&* men had not been aware that this had happened- Tke penetration had gone an wxtfooirt disewtn f o-rt.

ExperrrarentiTtg with water jr>t», Dt. Faila «aid, they hare found that a stream two-thowaands! of an Lneli in diameter will go throuTk tfee «Jcin to a deptk of nearly an inch, depending on the natare of the tLwnre underneath. ScrA a jet will penetrate nearly three ittebee through, the rkin and into the

9«h of a raw potato. They hum not yet .■le-tem-iin-e.:!. Tiowth« optima m pre'swiare or j::t rltameter. Also, they stressed, there' id one seriou* objection to this hvdrostrrgery —tte amownt ot air whfch will be earned into tk-e tiaamee with the. water uni-e?n special aafegTrardsi ar« taken. Up to the pre-sent, they said, they have been Kaabie to find aay very deeided advantage for their new wtW over putting water into tumours bv fine needlets.—N\A.>T_A.