The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1886-05-29
DIR. PIPER's CURE FOR CHOLERA.
A Theory Which at Least Is Worth a Fair
and Careful Test.
Baltimore American.

Baltimore american.
The May number of The Sanitarian, edited by
DR.. A. N. Bell, of New York, contains very in
teresting and important article, entitled "Internal
Distinction in Cholera" by highly esteemed
and accomplished physician of Towsontown, DIR.
Jackson Piper, who is also president of the State
Board of Health. 1t seems probable that the
doctor has discovered successful mode of treat
ment of the hitherto fatal disease of cholera, and
this probability is deemed of sufficient Importance
to justify bringing the matter more fully before
the general public than is presented through the
narrow channel of a medical journal.
He says that shortly after the announcement of
the discovery of the cholera bacillus by Koch, it
occurred to him that this dreaded scourge of hu-
manity might be successfully met by new method
of treatment-tnat of internal disinfecton, by in
jecting, per rectum, the fumes of burning sulphur
or prepared sulphur dioxide in gaseous form
properly diluted with atmospheric air.
DIR. Koch, he says, has shown, in over one hun
dred post mortems of cholera bodies, that the
comma bacillus finds its Judgment in the mucous
membranes of the small intestines; that it does
not possess high degree of vitality; that it per-
ishes in slight acids that at first it is local ir-
ritant; that it mutiplies itself with amazing ra-
pdity and speedily generates poison which kills.
LIT. ripper, from personal experience Win
cholera at the Baltimore county and city aims
house during the summer and fall of 1884, found
the complete uselessness of all medicines by the
mouth, and does not believe in the possibility of
giving, in this way, germ destroying medicines in
doses sufficiently powerful safe and speedy to eff
feet a cure. He, therefore, by an ingenously con-
structed instrument, instituted series of expert
ments to test its safety applied to human beings
as germicide in this disease. He quotes Boem,
Gutenberg and distinguished German au-
thorities- to show that suphqrous acid gas is
comparatively innocuous, except when inhaled
into the lungs. He shows by experiments made
by DR.. Sternberg, U. S. A., and Drs. Koch, Ray
mond and De Ia Crox, that the gas is fatal in
very small quantities to many well-known, life
destroying germs, and he has satisfactorily proved
by series of experiments upon animals that it
can be used in large, long and frequently repeated
sittings with perfect safety to the animal He
infers, by analogy, that it is safe for human be-
ings, and that, as it is destructive to germs of o
high degree of vitality, it must prove Of like effect
to cholera germs, which Koch declares possess q
low vital organism.
Public attention is invited to Dr. Piper's arti-
Gle, for the next best thing to keeping the disease
out of the country is to know how to treat it sue
cessfully should it come.
DR.. Piper is now in communication with DIR.
Koch, of Germany, for the purpose of having his
original and ingenious remedy tested upon cholera
germs in the German professors laboratory. The
result of the experiment is looked forward to with
great interest by medical scientists who have been
advised of his method of treatment.