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John Francis Knott, born in Austria, brought up in Iowa, had been drawing pictures for the Dallas News for five years when in 1910, aged 32, he knocked off work and went to Munich to become a painter. Another Austrian who had once loped to study art was in Vienna at that ime; but Adolf Hitler had been advised to try some other profession. Meanwhile, Student Knott returned to Texas, went back to the News as a cartoonist...
Scarcely had he settled to his task when his doctor friend begged him to come and irradiate his sister, who was dying of septicemia. Since the case was hopeless, the other physicians in the case consented. Mr. Knott irradiated the woman's blood; she recovered. Today she is strong and healthy, the mother of a husky child...
...James Tate Mason, onetime president of the American Medical Association, heard about this case, encouraged Mr. Knott to go ahead with his experiments. But Dr. Mason soon died, and for five years Mr. Knott could find no doctors who were willing to try so radical a procedure...
Last week, to the A. M. A. meeting in Manhattan, Mr. Knott took his latest model irradiating machine, an oblong box of stainless steel, about two feet long. All week long, young Dr. Miley, aided by his associate Dr. Alfred Tuttle, demonstrated the machine to thousands of curious doctors, showed them a sheaf of experimental records from Hahnemann. Of 27 irradiated cases of septicemia (bloodstream infection), said he, 22 recovered; 71 irradiated cases of other bloodstream infections, including peritonitis and septic abortion, all recovered...
Principle of the Knott Hemo-Irradiator is simple. A small amount of blood (two cubic centimetres per pound of body weight) is withdrawn from a vein in the arm, mixed with citrate to prevent clotting. The citrated blood is passed through a rubber tube into a small, round quartz and steel irradiation chamber. Against the quartz window the doctor fits a lamp, like a flashlight, which emanates ultraviolet rays. An automatic shutter turns the lamp off every few seconds to prevent over-irradiation. Length of irradiation varies from nine to 14 seconds, depending upon the severity of the infection. Once...