HEALING BY WIRELESS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21640, 4 November 1933, Page 8 (Supplement)

HEALING BY WIRELESS

REMARKABLE SUCCESS CLAIMED Will the doctor of the future cure his patients of complain>.s by subjecting them to the influence of wireless waves of pre-selected frequency ? asks an English writer. This possibility is brought into view by the remarkable results in the way of healing which are claimed to have been achieved by the use of wireless in medicine. The new from of treatment, christened " Radiotherrnv," is a German discovery, and is explained by Dr. Erwin Schliephake, a German doctor and scientist, in the British Journal of Physical Science. Patients aro placed between metal plates, and a powerful electric apparatus, similar to a wireless transmitting set, sends tho waves through their bodies. Ultra-short waves of from two to 20 metres are used, and it has been found that different cells and parts of the body respond differently to the various wave-lengths. According to Dr. W Kerr Russell, of Harley Street, London, the most striking results have been attained in treating pulmonary abscesses after pneumonia. ') Usually," states Dr. Kerr Russell, the mortality in .these cases is 80 B»r/ cent In tlio cases he lias treated r. Schliephcke has reduced it to 20 per cent. It has been found that the waves will also kill tho bacilli of diseases such as diphtheria. The curious thing is that the wave-length which will destroy one bacillus will not affect another. Similarly in experiments with animals, one wave-length will affect the brain cells and another the lung tissue. " Abscesses which form after pleurisy can be destroyed by one particular wave-length without injuring the surrounding tissue. During treatment the patient's temperature rises appreciably. A wave-length of 3.2 metres will act on/the red blood corpuscles, but will not affect germs. A four-metro wave will, however, kill diptheria germs. " More than oO different conditions have been successfuly treated by radiothermv, and I believe we are on the eve. of a revolutionary development. These wireless waves can reach parts of the body which are inaccesihlc otherwise except by an operation.''

i GERMAN CINEMA CAMERA Built like a telescope, a motion picture camera is one of the tools used by German Government naturalists who are making a scientific moving picture of birds in their native haunts. The long-range camera takes clear pictures of birds so shy that any attempt to approach within hundreds of feet Would frightei} them away. Three men constitute the camera crew. One, with binoculars, directs the filming; another keeps the camera trained on the birds, while the third cranks the instrument, using a ' sepcial shoulder-piece connected to the camera by a flexible cable. The finished film will show the complete life/cycle of the species portrayed, from the egg to the adult. Opening are being made indoors, where fret>..,'vlaid birds' eggs are kept under day and night observation. "When the assistant on the egg watch reports that one is hatching, powerful lights are flashed on and the cameraman hurries to his post to film the fledgling.

FISHES AND SKIN COLOUR Certain fishes have the ability to change the colour of their skins to match their environment. It has long been known that many fishes have a chameleon-like ability to change colour rapidly by contracting or expanding their colour bodies, but Dr. Francis B. Summer, of the Scripps Institute, of Oceanography, says he has discovered that if their contact with a changed background is prolonged enough, they will actually grow new colour-bodies or Set rid of part of those they have. How eeply this ability is inbred is indicated by the fact that very dark specimens, raised in black jars, will shea part of their complexions when transferred to white jars. Fishes raised in white jars respond equally promptly if moved to black-lined homes. X-RAYS ON PAPER X-rays oil paper instead of on film are made possible by a new process that is said to cut in half the cost of industrial X-ray inspection of welds and other objects. The paper is held in a special holder, and two sheets are exposed at once. One is kept on file, and the other submitted with the material tested. Easier to handle and drying more quickly than film, the paper is said to give as good or better results in industrial use, and its general adoption ia a/ possibilty.