ELECTRICITY FOR PNEUMONIA
NEW YORK, Sept. 9
r A claim that pneumonia deaths can bo decreased from 28 to 12 per cent, by treatment with high-frequency electrical currents was made to-day by Dr. Harry E. Stewart, of New Haven, Conn.
“The treatment consists in passing high-frequency current, by large electrodes, through the chest,{’ lie said, “raising somewhat the temperature of the lungs as nature does in her effort to combat the disease.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17916, 21 October 1932, Page 11
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