Arizona republican., 1896-02-08

agree carbolic acid could not be in- jected into the blood without poison ous effects.
 In other words, Dr. Edson had the problem before him about as follows: Here is a substance, a known anti septic, which will kill the cultivated germs; not only present in the blood at all times, but increased by nature during disease; which all men say can not be injected without poisoning the patient. Why?
 Dr. Edson answered his own uues- tion by saying, Because we have not yet found the right form or solution of it. If we find that, we can inject"
 He began the search and after long and tedious experiment produced a fluid which he calls aseptolin. It is perfectly colorless, looks like crystal and smells strongly of carbolic acid. It contains 2.75 per cent of carbolic acid and to every ounce of it there is added one hundredth of a grain of a new salt discovered by Dr. Edson dur ing his work, a salt called pilocarpin- phenyl-hydroxide. The aseptolin is injected under the skin and thus di- rectly into the blood. The dose is 100 minims or drops, injected with a hy- podermic syringe once in twenty four hours
 Now, what happens after the injec- tion? If the total amount of blood in the person be remembered it will be seen that after the injection the blood becomes a liquid having one part of carbolic acid to from 1900 to 1,500 parts of blood. In other words, it is a liquid from two to two and one-half times as strong with the acid as was the one to three thousand solution which killed the cultivated germs The circulation of the blood applies this carbolic solution to every part of the body many times in an hour Wherever there is disease and the germs which cause it, that spot is be- ing continually washed with this car bolic solution in which no germ can live more than few hours.
 Tuberculosis Consumption is a germ disease being caused by what are called the tubercle bacilli Dr. Edson discovered aseptolin in September, 1895. To date 217 persons having con sumption have been treated with it. Of these, four showed no improvement, and of the four, one died. The rest, 213, showed improvement. Of these, twenty three have been discharged cured; siXty-seven will, in the opinion of the physicians, be discharged cured, making ninety in all In ninety-one cases the patients have been under treatment too short a time to enable the attending physicians to say any thing except-the patients are better. In tthirty-two cases the improvement was only temporary, but this record means about forty per cent of cures and these cases have been those of pa | tients with the disease in all stages. About fifty physicians in the country have procured aseptolin from Dr. Ed sons laboratory, "A Whitehall street, New York city, and are using it in their practice. It has cured every case of malaria and la grippe in which it has been tried, seventy-seven in all of malaria, and ffty-one of la grippe. | After all, it is merely what Dr. Ed son calls it, "A Rational Treatment" It is killing germs inside the body just as they have been killed outside ever
 since the first colony was cultivated
 and it is the using for the purpose the agent nature herself creates or secretes
 to do this work. Upon authority of Professor Henry A. Mott, aseptolin is
 composed of, water, 97.2411 per cent;
 phenol, 2.7401 per cent; philocarpin- phenyl-hydroxide, 0.016S per cent.