The daily gazette., 1877-02-23
Important Medical Dis
u.IN eOYerYc 1877 In.

scARLET gEvHR. DfPHrHERIA AND KIN.
DBRD DIsBAsHs OAUsKD By LIVING Or
eAHIsMs IN THE BLooD--suLPHuR--
cARBoLATB OF SODA AN ABSOLUTE PRE-
vrNT1vE AND RENEDY. ~ p. 'i '"s. so
DR.. G. D. Belize. a leading ply sician
OF Chicago, OF the homeopathic school.
has published brief treatise on scarlet
fever diptheria, erysipelas and kindred
diseasts in which he advanced and sup
ports with much ability some entirely
new views in regard 10 the nature and
treatment OF these diseases. As the re-
suit OF a series of microscopic observa-
tions, confirmed by experimental treat.
ment, he has satisfied himself that
these diseases are caused BY living or
ganisms in the blood, infinitssimal par
asites which are generated and distrib9.
ted according to fixed laws Of nature.
Having found their way into the blood.
blood poison. From this startling point
he inferred that the way 10 euro the dis
ease was to remove the cause, and &C.
cordingly began the administration Of
carbolic acid by the stomach to destroy
the poison germs. The writer says:
In diphtheria the result was 10th
prompt snd gratifying, many cases re-
covering rapidly under the administra.
tion OF this antiseptic, when other meas
ares offered bat little hope. Observing
how seldom erysipelas appeared in sur.
gical cases where ] used carbolic acid
dressings, was led to regard this dis
ease OF septic origin; and to-day the cer-
tainty with whicha case of erysi pelas 10
arrested by the internal administration
Of an efficient antiseptic Ia as complete
demonstration of the presence Of sep.
tic germs in the blood. or is at least, az
convincing to my mind as though the
germs could be seen through the mi
croscope." ....,
The same line Of treatment has salts
fed him that scarlet fever il as clearly
Of septic character as diphtheria
and he says that during the last two
pears he has treated hundreds of cases
OF scarlet fever and diphtheria ON
this plan, administering the sulpho-car-
bolate OF soda "a chemical combination
OF carbolic acid with the sulphite Of so.
da with unvaryi ing success. He has
satisfied himself by its administration
the blood and tissues OF the human bodJ
may be thoroughly disinfected without
exciting any toxic effects of the drug
Administered to children breathing an
atmosphere loaded with scarlet fever OF
diphtheric contagon, it acts as in abso.
Lutte preventive, with exceptions 80 rare
and with symptoms so light when any
appear, that ono is forced to believe that
the fault was rather in an insufficient
dose than in the agent. Given when
either of the these diseases has devel.
oped an attack, and within few hours
the activity of the disease has ceased
and the remaining SYMPTOMS speedily
fade out into health.
The writer cites number u towns
and neighborhoods where this remedy
was used, and in every instance it opera
ted either as a preventive or a complete
cure while the disease was raging very
fatally all around. In conclusion he
says: .Il
Il earnestly commend it to the atten.
tion of the boards Of health in all ouI
larger cities, and of the true physician
everywhere. In bringing forward this
mode of treatment gave it first to the
profession and afterward to the public
desiring that my name should appear
only in so far as it might commend the
treatment to those who had confidence
in me. My task is ended when the sui
pho carbolate of soda shall have won its
way to public confidence, as it has to my
own. cannot dismiss this subject with.
out warning to those who pretend to
make use CT this agent, but use SO small
quantity as to be utterly valueless
do not know that this agent possesses
any other therapeutic properties than
as an antiseptic; and, to be useful as
such, it must be given in quantity sufi.
cient to disinfect the blood otherwise il
will be as useless in the face of these
diseases as spray Of an atomizsr in ex-
4 n o h
The remedy is 80 simple and available
that the discovery is one of great i'm
portance, and deserving of the careful
attention of the medical profession
everywhere.