CONSUMPTION.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2951, 24 November 1900, Page 1 (Supplement)

CONSUMPTION.

THE NEW CURE. SLESmiCIEY TO CeNQ’Q'BR THE DEBAD MALADY. (Illustrated Mail.) A new and, so far as can be judged from cases treated up to_tlie present time, perfectly efficacious method of cure for consumption has recently been discovered by Nikola. Tesla, the great American electrician. So many alleged “ cures ” for this dread disease have been brought forward from time to time in the part, each of winch has been duly “ weighed in the balance ” and found wanting, that medical men have come to regard any new method of treatment with a considerable degree of scepticism. The latest method of treatment, however; should be easy to test, for in theory it is simplicity itself. There are many forms of the terrible wasting disease which is generally known as consumption, but for the purpose of explaining Te: la's cure, it is only necessary to refer to the most common of these, that which, fastens upon the' lungs, arul in its progress gradually destroys those organs of the body, v The. principal feature of the new treatment is the application of tremendous doses of electricity to the body c-f the patient, by means of a new electrical instrument invented by Tesla for this special purpose. Ordinarily 800 volts of .electricity passed through the body of a man by means of tbe dry-cell method are sufficient J.o kill him, but by Tesla’s machine half a million volts can be administered to a patient without illetfoct. The patient scarcely feels the subtle fluid, which in another form WOULD INSTANTLY. ANNIHILATE HIM. The peculiar property claimed forthe new method of. treatment is that it atfects the germs of the disease without destroying the cells of the tissues of the body. Many doctors could cure consumption if they had only the disease bacillus to deal with; But they have to consider the cell structure of the human body. A germicide powerful enough to kill the consumption germ would also destroy the tissues in which this germ is conducting its operations. Electricity in its ordinary foim passed through the tissue would reduce it to its elemental state.

A description of the instrument used in the cure is perhaps best given in the inventor’s own words. Tesla says; “ My new oscillator is based on. a principle which I discovered some time ago. It involves the use of an electrical condenser which stores electrical energy. Tins energy is of an explosive nature, like the power locked up in dynamite, only it is many times more powerful. “ When this energy is suddenly released, as in my machine, it .produces quickly varying oscillations which are able to penetrate through bodies. Though this energy may be enormous in amount, it is not harmful in nature.

“By means of this machine I may pass at least half a million volts of electricity through a man without injury. Indeed, it may be UTILISED WITH BENEFICIAL EFFECT.

“ I am of opinion that electricity in this form may be used as a means of stamping out internal disease. When yon stand in the sunlight vour body is receiving millions of volts of electricity; and yet, this is not of a harmful kind. It is the .same way with my new electric energy. If you hold up your hand in the light you will see that certain portions of it are illuminated. The rays have nassed into the flesh. Sunlight as is -well known, helps to cure many diseases.”

The Tesla oscillator, it should be explained, is not new in principle, though the particular instrument described was invented specially for the cure of disease. It was some two or three years ago that Tesla first developed his oscillator, describing it at the time as a machine for producing currents of tremendous power. The oscillator is now iii use by New York physicians, who record some marvellous results. According to their testimony its application has been wholly successful. Patients suffering from chronic consumption have been cured permanently, while other men whose cases medical science had regarded as utterly hopeless have by the new treatment been completely restored to health.

The Tesla treatment is, moreover, 1m no means confined to the cure of consumption, hut cancer, neuralgia, and other tenable forms of disease haViS, according to the testimony of the American medical men,

SUCCUMBED TO ITS APPLICATION. The method of treatment by the new cure 0 the local application of eleclricitv by means of the oscillator to the part of the body principally affected by the disease, and also to the heart. In cases of consumption, where the wasting and weakness is modi cecl throughout the body., although the la--|s are generally the principal part affectthe application of the electricity direct 1 ■ the heart is one of tho principal features o'’ <he treatment. According to the evi-<:rt:-e of the New York physicians already i(ii red, only a few days is required for the t■ atment, and at the end of this time the on, ration is usually successful, and the cure of ike patient permanently accomplished. ’i o r discoverer of the new cure, Nikola : ' has been known for years throughout the -arid by reason of his researches and fspMiments in connection with electricity. Tin ugh he is claimed by the United States a- no American citizen, lie was not horn in D.a States, and only went over there from Budapest in 1884. He is by birth an Austrian, and is now forty-one years of age. Shmrd the new treatment hear out all that now claimed for it, medical science, a.ot through it the world, will benefit by Nikola Tesla’s invention to an extent which it N impossible to estimate or conceive.