Report Cases Treated Warwick Ionization (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Report of Cases Treated by the Warwick Ionization Method. The Burdick Corp, Milton, Wisconsin. Internal document, 11"x8" housing 15 16"x 8" sheets of results of application of their "ionization" method to help relieve symptoms of asthma and hay fever. Mostly the reports are some sort of early photomechanical reproduction, the large majority being manuscript in different hands, and outlines about 25 cases per sheet or about 350 cases overall. Data recorded includes: case, age, duration of symptoms, previous treatment, results of application of ionization process, and anesthesia (almost entirely some sort of administration of cocaine). The cover is homemade and has a variety of chips, scuff, and dusting. Provenance: Library of Congress, with their stamp on the front cover. GOOD condition. [++] I don't know anything about this though I did find a paper written by H.L. Warwick in JAMA defending this ionization process which I suppose must be the person giving their name to the process. We read: "To the Editor:  I have read with interest the article "Disappointing Results from the Ionization Treatment for Hay Fever," by Dr. Maximilian A. Ramirez (The Journal, January 25, p. 281). I am at a loss to understand why Dr. Ramirez secured such poor results from a method that has been satisfactory not only to me but to many leading rhinologists of this country. I know there is no way of "guaranteeing" to cure anything about the human body, but the results that I have secured from my own method, as compared with results obtained by the use of pollen antigen, have been superior as far as it is possible to estimate from the statistics available. Also, it is interesting to note that a large percentage of the patients treated by ionization had previously received treatment, by injection of pollen extracts, at the hands of some of our most prominent allergists." H.L Warwick, "Ionization Treatment for Hay Fever." JAMA 1936 106 (11): 939.