RADIO WAVES
USE IH PLAGE OF SURGERY
EFFECT CONTROLLED
LONDON, January 5. St. Bartholomew’s, mother of English hospitals, is experimenting with ultra-short radio waves. It is claimed that in certain kinds of disorder this treatment will supersede surgery.
It was discovered some time ago that these waves, with proper adjustment, would cook the yolk of an egg and leave the white raw.
The waves provide the safest and quickest method known of curing lung abscesses. Operations are avoided. The heating effect of the waves can be controlled so that only the affected part receives the heat. Other diseases which can be dealt with include pyorrhea and gum abscesses (avoiding teeth extraction), rheumatism and arthritis, asthma, serious forms of headache, osteomyelitis, a bone infection which at present results in _ amputation or prolonged periods in plaster, and many kinds of internal growth. The discovery is considered by many to be as important as that of X-rays.
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Evening Star, Issue 21935, 23 January 1935, Page 5
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154RADIO WAVES Evening Star, Issue 21935, 23 January 1935, Page 5
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