Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-02-15


this meant phenol or carbolic ACID was
! always in the blood of man. merck
figures were, in the urine or the person
| O.0O4 grammes of phenol to the ltrei
| Salkowsh declared that during disease
this amount rose to 1.5575 grammes per
litre. In other words, nature herseIl
! incraa sed the amount of carbolic acld
in the blood over 1000 times as soon as
| nerson became sick. Yet all observers
a erea carbolic acid could not be inject
ed into the blood without poisonous eff
fects.
In other words, DR.. Edison had the
problem before him about as follows;
Here is the substance, known anti
seqltic which will kill the cultivated
germs; not only present in the blood at
all times. but increased by nature dur
ing disease; which all men say can not
be injected without poisoning the pa
tient. Why?
DR.. Edison answered his own question
by saying: Because we have not yet
found the right form or solution of it.
If we find it, we can inject
He began the search and after long
and tedious experiment produced
fluid which he called 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-hundreth of grain of new salt
discovered by DR.. Edison during his
work, a salt called pilOcarpin-phenyl
hydroxide. The aseptolin is injected un-
der the skin and thus directly into the
blood. The dose is 100 minims or drops
injected with a hypOdermatic syringe
once in "a hours.
Now, what happens after the injec-
ton? If the total amount of blood in
the body 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 1900 parts
Of blood In other words, it is a liquid
from to 21a 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 being con-
tinually washed with this carboIic SO
luton 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. DR.. Edison
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 % have
been discharged cured; 67 will, in the
opinion of the physicians having the
cases, be discharged cured, making 90
in all. In 81 cases, the patients have
been under treatment for too short a
time to enable tho attending physic-
ians to say anything eXcept-the pa
TENTS are better. In 80 cases the i'm
provement was only temporary, but
this record means about 40 per cent of
cures and these cases have been those
of patients with the disease in all
stages.
About so 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. 1t has cured every case
of malaria and la grippe on which it
has been tried, II in all of malaria
and 81 of la grippe.
After all, it is merely what Dr. Ed
son calls it, "a rational treatment" 1t
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; pilocarpin- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
0.01SS per cent.
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