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Andf fic Interesting Scientific Experiments
With Sunlight Cures Which Are Now
Declared to Have Led to the Discovery of
a Method of Destroying the Malignant
Microbes of Cancer and Consumption
SUBJECTING THE DESTRUCTIVE GERMS OF A RODENT ULCER, A MALIGNANT CANCEROUS GROWTH,
TO THE WITHERING EFFECTS OF THE NEW CHEMICAL LIGHT.
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Hoir the tnberanlar patient la prepared for the" "ti.
atroke" treatment. The mk la worn, to shield the
face and eye" from the intense light.
REMOVING A CANCEROUS GROWTH ON THE LIP BY APPLICATION OF
ARTIFICIAL SUNLIGHT.
This rock crystal, from which the quarts lens or
tube is made, is subjected to 3800 decrees of heat
without melting; or cracklns.
The quarts tube which permits of the projection
only of certain chemical rays ot light deadly to
malignant disease germs.
Tn one way at least, as medical science
discovered Ions ago. disease microbes are
somewhat like human beings. They vary.
Some are easy to dispose of. Others seem
to bear charmed lives. The slightest puff
ot a cold wind will kill one. Others can
be boiled, baked, half-butchered, suffo
cated, asphyxiated, drowned. poisoned,
electrocuted and even burned alive and
still they survive, apparently little Uxe
worse for 111 treatment.
It is with this particularly tough and
practically unkiilable microbe of disease
that medical science has had its greatest
battles In the past and the microbe gen
erally won because scientific research
failed to produce any Instrument, gas,
poison, fire or liquid that would kill lt.
But today, according to the declara
tions of Dr. A. J. Ochsner of Chicago, Dr.
Donald McCasky of New York and Dr.
Ieonard K. Htrschberg, formerly of Johns
Hopkins university, there la a different
story to tell. Tenacious cancer germs and
other malignant microbes which seemed
capable of resisting every known method i
of assault are succumbing to a tiny ray
of light which, when it can be made to
reach them, gives them an artificial sun
stroke from which, medical science tri
umphantly asserts, they never recover.
This little ray of light, somewhat sim
ilar to the ultra-violet ray with which
many Interesting and valuable experi
ments have been conducted during recent
years, has to be projected through a disc,
or tube, capable of withstanding S800
degrees of heat.
The ray. which contains all the ele
ments contributory to a fatal sunstroke,
is so powerful that during an applica
tion of the light for the extermination
of disease germs, eye and hand shields
. must be used by the operator, and in
cases where the ray is projected toward
the face, the patient's eyes must be hooded
and the lace masked to prevent burning
and even blindness.
Just what the ray Is, how tt may open
up a new field of bloodless surgery by
effecting cures which were considered im
possible without surgical operations, and
how it is being successfully used in the
treatment of cancerous growths is de
scribed in the following article which Dr.
Hlrschberg has prepared specially for this
page.
BY DR. LEONARD K. H1RSHBERG
A. B.. M. A.. M. D. (Johns Hopkins Unl
versity.
"w TJTNTjIGHT has been proved more
. helpful to health, vitality and hu
man happiness than fresh air. A
thorough coat of sunburn is a vitality
builder and a source of strength, ca
pable of restoring health to the Je
bllitated.
Fortunately, perhaps, you need no
longer give up your work and retire
to the seashore, the mountains, or the
country to take sun baths, acquire
solar energy, and take on a heavy
coat of tan. All this can be done now
in the dingiest of homes or the dark
est of doctors' offices.
Curative Value of Light.
As you perhaps know, it is not the
bright light or hot rays of the noon
day sun that turns you as red as a
boiled' lobster or as bronxe as a Sioux.
Neither the heat rays nor the light
waves of Old Sol have much to do
with It. Rather is It a somewhat
mysterious, Invisible ray from the
source of the Uluminant. In other
words, it Is a radiant energy beyond
' the red, pink, orange, yellow, green,
blue, violet end of the spectrum a
species of ultra-violet ray not per
ceived or sensed by the human eye,
which tans the skin and has now been
found to possess remarkable curative
qualities in the treatment of cases of
cancer and even consumption.
Whitish light, wbTether from the
sun, a candle, a lamp, a gas jet, an in
candescent wire, a white hot iron, or
an arc light is really a mixture of all
the colors of the rainbow. The rain
bow is - called a spectrum, which is
white light analyzed dissected, or
split up Into the real colors visible to
the eye. Oodles of raindrops act as
bubbles or prisma, of water Instead of
glass and refrct back against the
clouds or sky the dissolved yellowish
sunlight, which has peeped out from
behind the clouds. The returned light
is split up into the natural colors red,
pink, orange, yellow, green, blue,
violet.
If a crystal, a prism of glass, a bit
of quartz, or certain other solid,
transparent object is interposed be
tween any source of light and a
smooth surface. It will split the light I
in .the same way as . raindrops do a 1
rainbow. The result Is called "the
colors of the spectrum" or "the spec
tral colors."
If man had perfect eyesight in the
meaning of the terra with X-ray,
radium, spectral meaning "of the
spectrum" and if he also had trans
lucent powers, then much knowledge,
which Is obtained now only Indirectly
by scientific instruments of precision,
would be acquired In a direct way for
the benefit of mankind in general.
For Instance, It has been discovered
through the use of these tools of
science that there are thousands of
other sets of radiations beyond the
violet end of the spectrum as well as
thousands of others beyond the op
posite or red extremity.
Chemical effects as Indicated by a
changed film or plate, a burned skin,
a blackened or tanned pigment in the
flesh, are now known to be caused by
one of these extreme rays just as
freckles, tan, sunburn, motion pic
tures, photographs, rain, clouds, grav
itation and electricity come from the
sun. mercury-vapor lamps, quartz
lights, and similar sources of light.
Sickly, pale, anemic, waxy, tuber
cular individuals do not freckle or tan
as easily as do healthier persons.
Nevertheless, these Invisible, cheml'
cal rays of light which cause freckles
and tan, seem most necessary to the
anemic arrd tubercular. In the labor-
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BEFORE AND AFTER REMOVAL OF A DISFIGURING BIRTHMARK BY "SUNSTROKING" THE BLEMISH
WITH ARTIFICIAL. SINLIGUX.
atory and the experiment. It has been
proved that the germs, microbes and
bacteria of disease are quickly des
troyed by "sunlight," or rather the
chemical rays of light that produce
freckles and tan.
The average business man or house
wife, unluckily, is not able, as a rule,
to leave his or her affairs for three
months or a year to receive the strong
sup. baths recommended by the doctor.
When anemia, lowered vitality, sap-
MOSQUITOS ARE ENDOWED WITH
SUPER-INTELLECTS OF ATTACK
Proof of Reasoning Power and Genius in Lower Animals Exists in
Tiny Craniums of Ferocious Flies of Prey.
By Jsmes J. Montague.
THE yellow fevo" mosquito buries
his beak in one of your capil
larieA. Iufna a ffw forma tVAr
and In a week or two you are out of
your misery.
The typhoid mosquito will do the
same thing for you, unless you hap
pen to have a strong constitution,
and can live on a diluted milk diet
for two months without getting
hungry and roDDing the ice box.
These mosquitoes bear the same
relation to the domestic mosquito that
the enthusiast does to the late Mr.
Torquemada. And yet there are those
who allege that the domestic mos
quito is perfectly harmless.
Of .course the average commuter
will tell you- that there are no mos
quitoes in his suburb. Finned down
and put on oath he will admit that
season before last a few were seen
on one of the back streets. While he
is telling you this,. if you happen to
be visiting him, he will probably be
nailing screens around his porch. The
screens, he will tell you. are to keep
the flies out. Hut that doesn't ex-
plain why ail the beds that are occu-
pied by members of his family are
swathed in mosquito bar. Flies ap
parently all belong to a union whose
rules forbid night work In any of Its
forms. Mosquitoes don't.
Of course mosquitoes are more
plentiful in some suburbs than in
others. In the state of New Jersey,
for example, they frequently stall the
local trains; as did the buffaloes of
old. A homing business man if he
has to walk any distance between the
station and house is so thoroughly
mosquito-plated by the time he
reaches his gate as to be unrecog
nizable save by the dog, who employs
his scent, as a means of identifica
tion. In Westchester county we have
fewer mosquitoes, but they are far
more intelligent. One could in fact
call them super-mosquitoes without
flattering them in the least.
They are not as large as the Cape
Cod mosquito, whose bulk approxi
mates that of a small Pekinese dog,
nor as ferocious as the . California
mosquito, which keeps the bobcats
and mountain lions mastheaded above
the snowline on the Sierras through
out the summer months.
But they are a living proof of the
presence of reasoning power and
even genius In the lower animals.
And if any animal is lower in the
matter of character and criminal
tendencies than a Westchester county
mosquito, I have not met with him
in my very considerable wandering
over this continent.
Our house of course is thoroughly
screened. We have no pose about
mosquitoes- If we had we couldn't
keep it ten minutes after a guest
arrived.
There are springs on all the screen
doors so powerful that they shut like
rat traps when opened, and it re
quires practice for a human being to
get through one of them without In
Jury to his person or clothing.
' Each member of . the family on
reaching the house is isolated in a
screened room while his clothing is
searched for mosquitoes.
You would think that these precau
tions would be sufficient. But you
would be thinking without adequate
knowledge of the craft and deter
mination of the Westchester county
mosquito.
I don't know how they get in. I
sometimes suspect that they bite
through the screens, although ento
mologists assure me that they have
no teeth. It is also possible that they
are conducting a hatchery somewhere
in the cellar, though we never have
found it.
I can testify, however, that they
do get in not in flocks or even
gangs, but in sufficient numbers to
force the family to sleep watch and
watch, or not to sleep at alL
When we retire for the night there
are usually six or seven waiting for
us, concealed in various inaccessible
parts of the room.
They have a patience which equals
their cunning. Never by any chance
not even if they are famishing for
food do they betray their presence
while the light is on.
But as soon as it Is turned off they
descend on us with a chorus of shrill
growls. Growls Is the word.
It Is too late then to do anything
but pour ammonia on the wounds and
try to hunt them to their lairs.
If they have had time to take long
refreshing droughts of our gore they
appear to get tipsy although for the
last six months there has been no ap
parent reason why my blood should
thus affect them.
Then it is comparatively easy to
overtake and destroy them. Destroy
ing the first attacking wave, how
ever. Is as little use as it was to de
stroy the advance guard of Germans
before Liege.
For every mosquito we kill two
obscurity, and as soon as the gloom
i restored fare forth to the charge.
Off goes the light; out come the
mosquitoes, and chanting their weird
battle song, make for any portions
of our persons that are not swathed
in blankets.
We sleep now with the lights
blazing full on, while two of the fam
ily sit up with clubs to protect those
who slumber.
It breaks Into day, but It is the only
method we have devised. The mos
quito is a comparatively small crea
ture, and his head is almost micro
scopic But if the same kind of gray
matter filled the craniums of us hu
man beings the forces of nature
would long ago have been harnessed
and we would be looking back on the
milieu ium.
Copyright. 1920, by the Bell Eyndleate. Tnc.
Germany Imports Perfumes,
Silks and Cigarettes.
Poor Are Clanorlng for Oatmeal
and Condensed Milk.
CITIES ALL OVER COUNTRY
ARE GETTING WAR TROPHIES
Thousands of Relics of All Kinds Brought From Battlefields of France
Now Being Distributed at French Mission in New York City.
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BERLIN, Aug. It. Since the raising
of the blockade Germany has im
ported 10,000,000,000 marks' worth of
silks, perfumes, chocolates, oranges,
cigarettes and other luxuries from
abroad, and the poor are clamoring
for oatmeal and condensed milk, ac
cording to German advocates of "the
simple life."
A new movement, known as the
League for the Regeneration of Ger
many, which preaches plain living and
high thinking, a return to old-time
simplicity, coupled with a revival of
intellectuality, as opposed to the crars
materialism of the present day, has
been started here. It deprecates the
dally issuance of 26,000,000 marks in
paper currency by the government.
An appeal is made to the people to
confined themselves, to the essentials
of life no more foreign-made clothes
or luxury food, no more expensive
pleasure trips abroad, no more costly
presents.
The promoters, among whom are
former Finance Minister Count Roe
dorn, the exonomic expert Walter
Rathenau and a dozen well-known
professors and social-welfare work
ers, emphasize that they are not
ascetics or prohibitionists but that
they make a plain appeal to the com
mon sense of the people to restrict
their general expenditure for the sake
of the fatherland.
It Is claimed for the movement that
it Is entirely nonpartisan and that It
has the official Indorsement of the
government.
Oxford Honors Harvard. Head.
OXFORD, Eng. The degrees of T.
Lltt. (honoris causa) has been con
ferred on A. Lawrence LowelL nresi-
avenging mosquitoes rise out of their dent of Harvard university.'.
EW YORK, Aug. 21. Thousands
of war trophies brought from
the battlefields of France for
use during the liberty loan and other
drives are being distributed at the
warehouse of the French mission
here. The material includes guns of
all kinds used by the French, British
and Germans, cavalry swords, cuir
asses, shells and soldier equipment.
Large demands for trophies have
come from inland cities, according to
Major Jean Malye, director of the
bureau of Information, direction gen
erate des services Francals aux Etats
Unls. now In this city.
One of the largest single collections,
with the exception of that given to
Washington for the national museum,
was presehted to the Army and Navy
club of America. The trophies will
be preserved In a suitable environ
ment to be Included in the plans for
the new 3,000,000 clubhouse that ts
to be erected tn honor of the officers
killed In the war.
The collection of bu pieces is made
up of cannon, flame throwers, trench
mortars, machine guns, bayonets,
rifles, swords, cuirasses, wire-cutting
machines, trench stoves, brasiers,
marmites, shells and shell baskets,
marine signal flags and other inter
esting and valuable trophies. The
selection was made by Captain-Adrian
Duane Doty, U. S. signal corps, rep
resenting the club.
Tanks and. German field pieces
weighing from one ton to ten recently
have been given to cities like Chi
cago, St. Louis, Chattanooga and
others as far away as Texas. ,
A huge German listening post has
been given to Bloomfield, N. J. Mont
clalr received a whippet tank, while
the national museum at Washington
was awarded a large 16-man tank.
Other valuable pieces were sent to
Washington, including an airplane,
sample pieces' of all the foreign ar
tillery used during the war, uniforms
and field kitchens.
The prize of the collection, a Big
Bertha, was claimed by Mt. Kisco,
N. Y., and will be placed In a promi
nent position there. The State univer
sity of Baton Rouge. La., has re
quested the immediate shipment of a
German minnenwerf er. Chattanooga
has been given a German 150-rr.illi-meter
gun weighing three tons.
The Chicago collection was chosen
by Colonel E. M. Marr. It will be
shipped to that city within the next
few days. Sergeant Fred Aneth,
French army, who has been in charge
of the material for two years, an
nounced. An idea of the demands
made for trophies, he said, could be
gained from the fact that more than
3000 French helmets and an equal
number of uniforms had been dis
posed of.
To various posts of the American
Legion, field pieces have been given.
All requests are filed at the office
of the director generale 65 Broadway,
before permission is given to Inspect
and select the trophies.
LARKIN'S RELEASE URGED
Agitation In Ireland to IVee Pris
oner In America Renewed.
DUBLIN. There is a renewed agi
tation In Ireland for the release from
prison of James Larkln. now serving a
sentence in America. Some of the
new town councils have taken up the
matter, and are busy passing resolu
tions about it.
At, Mulllnger the town council de
manded Lark in s release, and Mr.
Brett, a member of the county coun
cil, said that, as Larkin was an Irish
citizen any communication with ref
erence to him fisom the American
government should be made through
the Irish republican government and
he thought that the matter should be
placed in the hands of the minister
for foreign affairs of the Irish re
publican government. Other Irish
councils are acting similarly.
Jewish Kmlgratlon Arranged.
WINNIPEG. Man. Emigration of 90
Jewish families from Winnipeg to
Palestine is being arranged by two
societies, Holker and Hoachuso, It
was learned recently. The former
has sent representatives to Palestine
to purchase land, while the latter al
ready owns 30,000 worth,
ped energy. Intellectual or physical
fag, tubercular glands, or what not,
call for a trip to the Adirondacks,
Atlantic City, the Rocky mountains,
or a farm, the average person, know-
ing how Impossible this would be, has
no alternative but to stay home and
grow worse."
The Indoor Snnbnrn Core
But no more. The radiant energy
needed to fight the disease can now
be obtained at home. In other words,
thanks to an elaborate series of
mercury-vapor lamps and quartz
bulbs, put Into practical use by Dr. A.
J. Ochsner In Chicago, Dr. Donald Mc
Casky in New York, and by others
prominent in the medical and surgi
cal field, the victim . of tubercular
glends or tuberculous peritonitis,
whose needs must be treated by sun
light, can go to one of the treatment
rooms of a hospital or office and be
sunburned right Indoors In a dark
room.
Fitted out in such establishments
are a number of sun-treatment rooms
where the microbes of disease are
subjected to a treatment which
amounts to a fatal attack of sun
stroke for the microbe.
In each of these rooms Is a hugs
reflector, inside of which is a mercury-vapor
quartz lamp. An attend
ant brings in the patient, who Is
placed upon a camp cot or couch for
treatment.
At first these powerful rays of arti
ficial sun ara focused on the neck,
shoulders, chest, and back for only
three minutes. So concentrated are
these solar rays however, that the
subject quickly becomes as sunburned
and red as a hard boiled crab. Sun
burn lotions are then required to ease
the pain of the artificial sunburn.
The victim peels Just as if he had
gone fishing or swimming in mid
summer. The next treatment given is
a few days later.
Gradually as tne peeling stops and
a tan begins to take its place, the in
door sunshine treatment is continued
for 15 minutes to half an hour.
While sunlight raying is not a
panacea or all-healing method, it has
worked some extraordinary results,
for victims of high-blood pressure,
enlarged glands of the neck, anemia,
and emotional instability.
Dr. Donald McCasky of New York
has been' for some years one of the
advanced research workers in this
field. His .reports of the successful
use of indoor, artificial sunburn con
vince many conservative physicians
that for tubercular glands of the neck,
cancerous growths, debility, anemia,
disbetes, tuberculosis, and similar
maladies, and even for the oblitera
tion of blemishes the "sunstroke"
remedy is going to prove a valuable
, forward step in medical science.