Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1891 — Electricity for Cancer. [ARTICLE]

Electricity for Cancer.

■ A young physician attached to the Chelsea Hospital for ’A omen has invented and used, it is said with sue. cees, »machine which, in cases es Mncer, will direct a current of aleo. tricity against a diseased cell stroag enough to destroy it and at the same time will not injure a healthy cell. Those that are destroyed are said to tarn into a hard substance, that remains without causing the patient any Inconvenience. . - Believe the Pain of Tooth PnlUag An electric instrument has been in vented which is designed to remove the pain incidental to the extraction of teeth. It consists of adjustable prongs carrying buttons and connected with an electric battery. The buttons are placed on the face over the nerves leading from the teeth tc the brain, and a circuit is established •he moment the extracting instrument tonehen the **>* be reamed.