BATH OF BUBBLES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 21 January 1939, Page 17

BATH OF BUBBLES

TREATING RHEUMATISM DESCRIPTION OF EFFECTS VIBRATING WATER HAMMER LONDON, 15th December. An invention against rheumatism and kindred ailments, which has been tried out with success on patients sent from London, Cardiff, Halifax and ' other centres, has been perfected in Edinburgh. It is the "Aeratone Therapeutic Bath,” invented by Professor William Oliver, of Edinburgh University. The bath has been under test for some time, and members of the medical profession who have witnessed the demonstrations state that the apparatus fulfils all that is claimed for it. The effect of the bath, which is made in the shape of an upright cylinder with inner and outer compartments, is to massage the skin and stimulate the circulation. The patient is seated in the inner cylinder and the bath is

filled with water to the required level a of about bloodheat. Compressed air is then introduced through apertures at the foot of the bath, thus providing an inrush of small bubbles carrying upward a strong current of water. Simultaneously, through the bottom of the outer cylinder, air is also introduced under pressure, causing an upward rush of water impregnated with bubbles in the cylinder surrounding that in which the patient is seated. STIMULATING EFFECT ON SYSTEM The water overflowers from the outer into the inner cylinder at the level of the patient's shoulders. The resulting disturbance between the upward and downward currents of water produces a massage effect described as a "vibrating water hammer.”

In addition to the hydraulic massage process the large number of bubbles | released in the rushing water has a sucking effect over the surface of the skin, the result being a "speeding up” in the circulation. This result, it is claimed, continues for some time after the bath has been taken, a stimulating effect being produced throughout the entire system, while a purifying process operates on the surface of the skin. Remarkable improvement in severe rheumatism and arthritis has been secured in cases of patients sent for experiment by medical men in various parts of the country. ORDERS FOR THE APPARATUS I As the result of the success of a * week’s treatment given at Edinburgh: to a Rotherham miner crippled by j long-standing rheumatic troubles, a j machine has been ordered by the Manvers Main Colliery, Rotherham, for installation at the pithead baths. The Carnegie Trust, actively interested in the campaign against rheumatism and associated complaints, is putting a bath into use almost at once at the Carnegie Baths in Dunfermline. 1 Officials in charge of various treatment centres throughout Britain are also, it is reported, negotiating for supplies of the bath. The apparatus is made of highly polished stainless steel, so’ that it is suitable both for ordinary town water and the saline water available at certain spas. The invention is being manufactured by a recently-formed company of which Dr. J. Donald Pollock, Rectbr’s I Assessor at Edinburgh University, is chairman. Keeps An Army at Cay! **l keep it in my pocket. It can destroy battalions of the enemy! it s my handy tin of Pulmonas!" he concluded. He was right, for Pulmonas pastilles release a disinfecting vapour which destroys millions of dangerous germs in nose, mouth, throat and lungs. Try Pulmonas. 1/-. 1/6 and 2'6 All chemists and stores