WOUNDS CURED BY ELECTRICITY

Evening Post, Volume CII, Issue 62, 10 September 1921, Page 16

WOUNDS CURED BY ELECTRICITY

A method, of-destroy ing by electricity the microbes ..-which.-, infect wounds has been: worked .but and, applied at tha Royal Sussex .County Hospital, Brighton (says the Daily Mail).- Dr. P. C. Collingwood Fenvfick, surgical officer of the hospital, who devoted several years', research to making quite sure that the electric current actually ■ plays a- part in killing the germs, holds the opinion, that electrical treatment will play en important, part in combating disease in the future. No-other country, he points out, has claimed to have destroyed bacteria by electricity. The new method of bringing about a speedy cure of apparently hopeless cases Was described,in .a ,: recent issue ,of . the British Medioel Journal by Dr. Fenwick. In one case a man had a very bad septic forearm, which did not improve under the usual treatment. The arm was placed in ,t porcelain bath filled with a K-lution of salt, and then electricky was passed through it-. "The following day, the arm looked very much cleaner. Bach cay ii improved, and in ten days, with daily baths, it'was almost, heaied." Deep gunshot woundß, the despair of- the surgeon, were treated with equal success. Electric baths are being used with excellent results in the ojt-patL?rit department of the hospital.