RADIUM FOR RHEUMATISM

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue 9302, 19 March 1907, Page 3

RADIUM FOR RHEUMATISM

It has been discovered by a Parisian medical man, Dr Loewentha], that radium taken in water has a similar influence on tbe human body to that of many mineral baths.

in -a glass' of -water containing a quarter of a, litre he placed three-tenths of a milligramme of bromide of radium wrapped' in parchment. The water thus treated Dy the emanations of radium was given an various forms to a' certain number of persons. In a number of cases of rheumatism Dr Loewenthal noticed that, as in the case of mineral baths, the pains at first increased, but afterward tEe patient recovered slowly, as is also the case with these baths.