The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-01-20
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Dir. EDSON'S GOOD TIDINGS.
New YorIS's Health Board Doctor Thinks
He Has a Real Cure for Most Cases of

New YorIx's Health Board Doctor Thinks
He Has a Real Cure for Most Cases of
Consumption.
The medical world, says the New
York Times, is awaiting with interest
the publication of the formula of asep-
sin, with which DR.. Cyrus Edison, for
marly of the health board, has been
making successful treatment in eases
of consumption.
Il do not pretend" DR.. Edison said
yesterday, that / have discovered an
absolute consumption cure, or even
anything which is altogether new in
the treatment Of that disease. But, in
the report which I am not preparing
for publication in the Medical Reesrd,
shall show that this asepsin treat
ment is a very rational one. and that 1t
has been successful in about seventy
per cent of the cases treated.
81 claim for it no positive and certain
cure, as was claimed, for instance, for
the Koch lymph, but shall publish my
experiments in about two weeks, with
full description, and give also the for
mula for asepsin. =
DR.. Edison was averse to speaking Of
the asepsini treatment yesterday, and
said that a partial report would only
do harm 3aE
II see the papers have already taken
the matter in hand he said, "and I
think the information was given by a
patient of mine, who imagined he was
doing me good turn"
Remarkable results have been OBJ
tanned in cases Of malaria and interrnft-
tent fever by the use of asepstn. This
has been proved by a series Of expert
ments made during the past fcar
months by DR.. Edison and other physi-
clans. Nearly two hundred persons
suffering from consumption In New
York are being treated with asepsin,
and eighty per cent. of them are on a
fair way to recovery.
The principal drawback to the treat
ment is that it must be administered
by an expert. /"
The treatment consists, 50 far as
could be learned from DR.. Edison, Of by
podermic injections. Asepsin Is a
germicide. 1t is preparation of mas
cent picnic acid 1t is intended for the
cure Of diseases originating from germ
infections, particularly tuberculosis
and malaria. 1t may be injected in
small quantities into the blood without
producing any local irritation or abb
scesses.
"The beneficial effects of picnic acid
4 II fcfe
mouth to tuberculous patients suggest
ed to DR.. Edison the idea Of preparing a
fluid containing the acid in nascent
form which could be injected hypoder-
mically without producing irritation
and in sufficient quantity to reinforce
the system against germ invasion; or,
in other words, to turn the scale of nat
ural resistance in favor of cure.
1.-THE dose in case Of phthisis begins
with from fifty to seventy minims, and
is increased ten minims daily until one
hundred minims are given. The pa
tient should also be sprayed twice a
day with a solution consisting of ten
parts of iodoform and ninety parts of
| ether"
| Or. Edison prefers to inject the as;p-
sin into the abdominal particles, but
when this course seems inadvisable the
| fluid may be injected into the muscles
of the back. It's action is more efficient
| if it is absorbed slowly into the circua-
ton, and if the treatment is kept UP for
at least thirty days after the disappear
ance Of the bacilli.
| In the case of malarial infection the
mode of administration is somewhat
different. Two hundred nlinims Of
asepsin should be administered in two
| injections into the abdominal particles