The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1896-02-11
DISCOVERY
OF SCIENCE
DR.. EdSon Has Pound a Method Of
EffectuOlIy Killing Germs
Of Tuberculosis.
AsEPToLIN DOES TIE WORK
Great Booa for consampti,ss and Those
Tfoubied With Similar Diseases
Problem Believed 10 be Solved
By q kati0asl Treatment.

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patch was received by the Astorian, bu
through misunderstanding was not re
leased In tlmo for publication Sunday
Owing 10 It's public Importance J
published this mroning.l
New York. Feb. 9.-Dr. Cyrus Edison
who was at one time commissioner o
health OF the city and county OF New
| York. and who has been for years on
Of tho well known contributors 10 th'
leading magazines. win publish an article
tomorrow In the Medical World-th'
Lancet among ths medical journals In ih'
United stAtcn--under the following tile
- Rational Treatment for Phthisin Pul
monallA. together with some notes on
new Remedial Solution" Under thli
line comes the description OF new dis
coyery made by DR.. Edison. which. Il u
said. may solve the hitherto unsolyet
problem Of the cure ofstubcrculosiE
or all tho diseases which aiiiict the hu
man race. tuberculosis. In one form Of
another, II the most fatal. Among this
people OF nations sufficiently civilized e
keep records OF deaths with their cause
about one third are charged 10 tuherculo'
sis. The most common form OF the dis
Ease ia conauurptlon, and all men remetn
Der tho sensation which followed the an
nouncament by Prof. Koch. that he hop
ed that he had discovered remedy. But
Tuberculosis kills thousands OF babies
when Il attacks them In the bowels and
II causes many men 10 walk with
crutcheR Tho disease is protean In char
acter. there Is scarcely a portion OF tn,
body Il may not invade, and Il kills
about one-third OF all who die.
In order 10 understand DR. EdEon's dis
coyery. II Il necessary 10 remember that
paHteur and Koch discovered and estab.
lished the fact that germ diseases had as
their ultimate cause the presence In the
body OF minute organisms, called germs,
microbes and tho like, II was not long
before theao germs were cultivated. as II
was called. That L. some germs from a
diseased person were transferred 10 some
bullion. Irish moss. or some substancs
on which they would grow placed In a
machine where the temperature was
maintained at that OF the blood. and
there allowed TO increase and multiply
which they did with amazing rapldlty.
These cultivated germs were identical
with those In the diseased person, MS was
proved not only by the experiments with
guinea pigs, but by the fact that many
OF the scientific men studying them have
by accident been innoculated with them
and have died as the result.
Having the cultivated colonies. the sci
entliic men have made many experiments,
They found disinfectants would kill these
germs. They found. for example. that II
a mixture OF one-part OF phenol or car
bolic acid, 20 three thousand parts OF
water were fioated over n colony OF germA
and left there for twenty-four hours. all
these germs died. II naturally occurred
TO them that N carholic acid would kin
germs outside the body. Il would kin
them inside. and the conclusion that II
they could kill all the germs In the
body, they could destroy the cause OF
the disease and thus cure the latter was
apparent The experiment was promptly
tried. The result was some OF those In
whom these injections were put. develop
ed ahscesses at the point OF injection.
Far more. however, were poisoned by the
acid and the idea had TO be given up.
II was too fascinating, though Declat.
OF Paris, made mixture of one OF the
acid to one hundred OF water, and put
ting In a little salt, continued the iujeo-
ticns, getting from them a larger per-
centage OF cures
ifs fuhOn Uhu HIS ANltHAlOU NlftAttA III
this subject in the early part OF 1896. and
he began the study OF calbolic acid He
found Stadler. Merck. Brieger. Salowski
and other great chemists agreed In de-
ciaring that phenol was normal con-
stituens OF the urine in man. the horse
and the COW. As whatever is In the urine
comes from the blood after II has been
strained through the kidneys, this meant
phenol or carbollc acid was always In
the blood OF man, Merck's figures were.
In the urine OF a healthy person. 0,O04
grms OF phenol to the litre: Salowski q
clared that during disease this amount
rose to i6ST5 grts per Hire, In other
words, nature herself Increased the
amount OF carbolic In the blood over one
thousand times as soon as the person
became sick. Yet, all observers agree
carbolic acid could not be injected into
the blood without poisonous effects.
In other works. DR.. Edison had the
problem before him about as follows.
Here Is a substance, a known antlseptic
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 cannot be injected
without poisoning the patient, WhyP
DR.. Edison answered his own question
by saying; because we have not yet
found the right form or solution OF 1t.
u we find that we can inject"
He began the search and after a long
and tedious experiment produced fluid
which he calls Aseptolln. 1t is perfectly
colorless, looks like crystal, and smells
strongly of carbolic acid. 1t contains
ais per cent of carbolc acid, and Ia
every ounce of II there Is added one
hundredth OF grain OF new salt dis
covered by DIR. Edison during his work,
salt called pilocarpin- n-phenyl-hytrovide
The Aseptoiin Is injected under the skin
and thus directly into the blood The
dose Is 100 minlms or drops, injected with
a hypodermatic syringe once In twenty
four hours.
Now, what happens after the injection
II the total amount Of blood In the per.
soIf be remembered II will be seen that
after the injection the blood becomes a
liquid having one part OF carbolic acij
to from 1900 TO 1900 parts of blood, In
other words II Is a liquid from two to two
and one-half times as strong with the
acid as was the one to three-thousand So
luton which killed the cultivated germs.
The circdlatlon of the blood applies this
cerbolic solution to every part OF the
body many times In an hour. Wherever
there Is disease and the germs which
cause II. that spot is being continually
washed with this carbolic solution in
which no germ can live more than a few
hours.
osls-consumption-ls germ
disease being caused by what are called