The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-01-15
IT'S NAME DOES 1T.
A Remedy for Snake Bites
and AspElyxia.
THE NEW CURE FOR CHOLERA
1t Is Much Simpler Than the Name
and Means to lnfuse salt Water
Under the Skin.

The Eastern papers are discussing bypo-
dermoklysis, and great many laymen
are breaking their jaws trying to get that
exact combination Of letters between their
teeth al one time.
One enterprisng journal in Ohio has
offered years subscription to the first non-
practitioner who shall appear personally
before a selected jury OF Russian physicians
and pronounce the new WORD accurately
without producing dislocation of the in
framaxillary.
No one has yet claimed the reward. and
local contemporary hints that the true
reason is that no one cares to read this par
ticular journal.
A still more enterDrising paper has
offered reward of two yearly subscriptions
for the discovery Of the man who invented
the vexed word.
His name is Max Hilderbrand, with an
MD. after it,
He is a practeing physician in San Fran
cisco and member Of the California
Academy of Medicine.
Willie DR.. HiIderbrand does not claim to
be the inventor Of hypodermoklysis he is
undoubtedly its first and most successful
exponent in this country.
And what is ypodermoklysis?
Now, that's weighty question. An i'm
portant one. TOO. and in its answ ering is the
exposition Of @ new and novel life-saving
mechanical remedy that is just now conf
manding the attention of the scientific
world.
1t means the Injection of quart or more
of salt water under the skin.
And what is this for?
To save the lives of those who would
otherwise die of asphyxiation and other
troubles wherein the artificial action of the
heart is required in order TO perpetuate the
life of the patient
ITS the sin plest thing In the world"
says DR.. Hilderbrand. "but by its prompt
use many human lives may be saved.
II read in the papers of this or that per-
son being taken to the Receiving Hospital
to be treated for asphyxia. The doctors did
died." said DR.. Hilderbrand, quoting an i'm
aginary police item from the papers.
"Now, il they would only employ this
system OF hypodermoklysis, / am satisfied
a good many of those patients could be
saved"
THE CALL reporter protested that the
very name of the method might be too much
for weak patients.
"Bab," said the doctor, "the name is as
simple as the remedy. Let me show you
how simple both are.
1.-THE first thing and the most important
is a glass jar which holds quart. Sterilize
it first by placing it in boiling water for ten
or fifteen minutes, so as to destroy any DOS
sible disease germs which may be lurking
abaut
"Do you know this is the age OF bacteria?
Everything nowadays is bacteria from a
medical standpoint. The very air we breath
is filed with living organisms which. under
suitable conditions, can be depended upon
to breed in our bodies and produce one kind
or another OF disease. That Is why hypo-
dermoklysis is so valuable as a remedy. BY
the injection OF a certain fluid under the
skin il kills all the bacteria.
But suppose this is case OF asphyxia,
and what Is necessary IS 0ieach the heart
by some artificial means and set 1t In ac-
ton?
1--WE have sterilized the glass lar In which
the salt water is 10 be placed. Now boil the
water thoroughly till it is well sterlized.
Wien 1t has cooled off to about 11e degrees
Fahrenheit fill tho glass jar In the water
put two teaspoonfuls of ordinary table salt.
when 1t has dissolved we have fluid
that is equal in saline properties TO the salt
In our own bodies. That is seven-tenths of
] per cent OF salt. We call it the pbyso-
logical solution.
'You see this long, hollow needle, which
we call trocar. Steriize it first by wash
ing it in carbolc acid and then rinsing off
the acid by the steriizcd water.
Treat this long rubber hose In the came
fashion. Now all is in readiness, and the
patient is lying on the bed or operating table.
Place the glass jar filed with the saline
solution high above on 2 shelf, then make
siphon of your rubber hose after placing the
hollow needle on the end.
ut is better to Inject the fluid under the
feeh OF the abdomen In this case, for il will
then reach the heart quickest Place the
needle under the skin just the same as YOU
would the nozzle OF hypodermic syringe.
Let the pressure of the water force its
| way under the skin.
"A large tumor will form, but In a short
time that will disappear and the solution
will pass all through the system, not only
reaching tie heart and setting that organ