ULTRA-SHORT WAVES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18591, 29 December 1934, Page 12

ULTRA-SHORT WAVES

USE IN MEDICAL TREATMENT

ADVANCE CI,AIMED

SYDNEY, Dec. 11

Mr W. Van Boss, of Amsterdam, Holland, working at Sydney Hospital, claims that, he has made a considerable advance in ultra-short wavo medical treatment.

The treatment first came into prominence early this year, when a 'German, Dr. Schliephaker, in a lecture before prominent medical men in London, described remarkable cures which, he claimed, he had effected by means of ultra-short waves. The cases treated included spinal troubles, abscesses on the lung, rheumatism, duodenal ulcers, and deafness. The apparatus used resembled a wireless transmitter, by means of which waves of varying lengths were transmitted through the body of the patient. The effect of the treatment resembled the application of an internal hot poultice.

Mr Van Boss, who has been working along these lines at Sydney Hospital ■for some months, claims that he has perfected an apparatus which represents a considerable advance on the German development. Ilis invention consists, in effect, of a simplification of the apparatus, whereby a single machine can be adapted for all treatments from general fever treatment to raising the temperature on the smallest local area required. The methods in use in Europe and America, according to Mr Van Boss, require the employment of a different apparatus for each treatment.

Mr Van Boss claims that ho has had considerable success in the treatment of spinal injuries, inflammation of the spine, .asthma, rheumatism, pleurisy, catarrh, 'and deafness.