Electrocution of microbes is the latest dental method. It is designed to obviate the necessity for extraction in cases of pyrrhoea, and the method is “painless” as far as the human patient is concerned. The new method is the invention of Mr. William Howell, a medical electrician. His apparatus consists mainly of an insulated sofa, a glass tube connected with electrical apparatus, and a violet ray. This ray, which is only occasionally seen and never heard, does the trick. The patient sits on the insulated sofa and the glass tube is placed in contact with his gums. An electrical machine then begins to produce the violet rays, which pass through the gums via the glass tube. Nothing Is felt by the patient, the only distinctive signs of an active offensive being an occasional glow in the glass tube or a sudden flash of the violet ray at rarer intervals. This effectively settles the microbes, and,- what is equally important, saves the teeth.
WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS- Exercise a beneficial effect UQon the kidneys.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18071, 8 January 1921, Page 6
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