The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-02-07
ASEPTOL|N CURE.
Consumption No Longer to Be
Dreaded, Says Edison.
A New Salt, With a Solution of
CarbOlic Acid,
WILL KILL GERMS.
The Liquid is Perfectly Color
less, Looking Like Crystal.
The New York Doctors Remedy
Receives Favorable Notice.

New YORK. Feb. 7.-Dr. Cyrus
Edison, who was at one time commits
sioner of health of the city and county
of New York, and who has been for
years one of the we11-known contribu-
tors to the leading magazines, pub
fishes an article in the Medical Record
under the following title: "a Ra-
tional Trea tment for Phthisis Pulmo-
nails, Together With Some Notes on a
New Remedial Solution" Under this
headline comes the description of a
discovery made by DIR. Edison, which,
it is said, may solve the hitherto I'M
solved problem of the cure of tubercu-
losis.
In order to understand DIR. Edson's
discovery, it is necessary to remem Der
that Pasteur and Koch discovered
and established the fact that germ
diseases had as their ultimate cause
the presence in the body of minute
organisms, called germs, microbes and
the like. Scientists long ago discov
cred that disinfectants would kill
these germs outside the body. Some
OF them experimental with solution
of phenol or carbolic acid as an in
lection to kill germs in the blood The
idea was abandoned, however. It
occurred to DIR. Edison that the failure
was due to the fact that the proper
solution had not been found, SO he
continued the experimenting.
After long and tedious experiment
he produced a fluid which he calls
aseptolin. 1t is perfectly colorless,
looks like crystal, and smells strongly
of carbolic acid. 1t contains 2.75 per
cent of carbolic acid, and to every
ounce of it there is added one-hun-
dredth of a grain of a new salt dis
covered by DR.. Edison during his work,
a salt called pilocarpin-ph hydrox-
ide- The aseptolin is injected under
the skin, and thus directly into the
blood. The dose is 100 minims, or
drops, injected with a hypodermatic
syringe once in twenty-four hours.
Now, what happens after this in
lection? If the total amount of blood
in the person be rememb ered, it will
be seen that after the injection the
blood becomes a liquid, having one
1900 parts of blood. In other words,
it is liquid of from two to two and
half times as strong with the acid as
was the one to 5000 solution which
killed the cultivated germs. The cir
culation of the blood applies this car
bolic solution to every part of the body
many times an hour. Wherever there
is disease, and germs which cause it,
that spot is being continually washed
with this carbolic solution in which no
germ can live more than a few hours.
tuberculosis - consumption is
germ disease, being caused by what
are called the tubercle bacilli. DIR.
Edison discovered aseptolin in Septem-
Der, 1895. To date PIT persons having
consumption have been treated with
it. OF these. four showed no improve
ment, and of the four one died. The
rest, 213, showed improvement. Of
these, % have been discharged cured;
81 will, in the opinion of the physi-
clans having the cases, be discharged
cured, making 80 in all. In 81 cases
the patients have been under treat
ment for too short time to enable the
attending physicians to say saything
except the patient is art better. In 81
cases the improvement was only tenn
porary, but this record means about 40
per cent of cures, and these cases have
been those of patien is with the disease
in all stages.
About fifty physicians in the coun-
try have procured aseptolin from DR..
their practice. 1t has cured every
case of malaria and la grippe in which
it has been tried, seventy-seven in all
of malaria and fifty one of la grippe.
After all, it is merely what DR.. Edison
calls it: "a Rational Treatment" 1t
is killing germs inside the body, just
as they had been killed outside ever
since the first colony was cultivated,
and it is using for the purpose the
agent nature herself creates of Sc
cretes to do this work. Upon author
ity of Professor Henry A. Mott, asepto-
lin is composed of: Water, 81. Pill per
pin-phenly-hydroxid Q.O188 per cent.