The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-10-05
POSITIVE SPECIFIC.
Chlorine Sure Preventive OF yell
low Fever and Diphthcria.
TO the EDITOR Of The Post.

TO the Editor OF The Post.
Townsend Building. Broadway ana |
Twenty-fifth Street New York city, Sep
TENDER 29.-The yellow fever Is now
alarming the people of The South. IL this |
scourge could be summariiy obliterated
what blessing 1t would be- Can this DO
done? / think so. but how My answer
IL by the intelligent use of chlorine. And
what is chlorine? II is a greenish. yell
lowish colored gas. which compcsos near
~ 60 per cent OF common salt. and Is
the most powerful anti-septic and germi-
toxic known 10 medicine, George NJ.
stcrnberg. surgeon general OF the United
States army and president of the Ameri-
can Medical Association, IN his great
work on "Bacterology, III speaking OF
chlorine, says: THE haloid elements are
active Germicidal agents especially
chlorine. on account of its allinity Tor
hydrogen. and the consequent release of
nascent oxygen when II comes In contact
with heterogeneous In n most condi-
ton" His experiments also show that
where children were vaccinatod with vi
rus from ivory points which had been
exposed for six hours in an atmosphere
containing y per cent of chlorine that
vaccination was UNSUCCESSFUL In every
case. but successful with the points from
the same lot which had not been ex-
posed to the chlorine, Koch found that
anthrax spores failed to grow after twcn-
ty-four hours exposure In chlorine water,
about 100 years ago. It's wonderful thera-
peutic power has long been known. but
on account of it's suffocatng properties
and caustic and irritating qualities II
could not be readily inhaled. Such is no
longer the case. DR.. Bracelin has sue
ceeded. after many years of experiment
Ing, IN finding an emo!lent corrective
ders 1t as safe and as capable of inhala-
| tlcn as the air we breathe. The corrective
| IL composed of eucalyptol. dsltcylate OF
III hal al
! alcohol. This remedy has been used IN
/ hundreds of cases of dinhtheria and scnr-
| let fever in the North during tho last Gw
| years and has proven to be a specific in
| these diseases and an absolute preventive.
| In fact. to those who know IL II wo~ld
| seem 10 he little less than crime to per-
| nit any one 10 die of diphthefia. II has
been Endorsed by more than i5o physicians
| who have tested 1t clinically' IN their prac-
| tce. Many health officers of different
cities have also recommended It's use
| am so confident that its use Will prove
! n blessing to the South in it's present af-
| fliction that / Will cheorfully contribute
| $50 worth OF the remedy for the purpose
OF making test of the Braeeltn Chlorine
| Bactericide In yellow fever cases.
| If you viii make this communication
| known to your renders through the col
| umns OF your paper II NAY result In s1v-
| ing thousands of lives and much loss OF
| property In the South. The inhalation OF
| this corrected chlorine gas can do no harm
| aud Is administered SO easily as to re-
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| ride OF lime be good as n dislnfectant OF
| sewers and water closets why should not
| the chlorine itself be good as an anti
| septic taken into the human system. II
| is absolutely impossible for any one to
| take diphtheria who will inhale the chic
| rine Ave minutes four or five times daily
| For this and many other reasons l am
| morally certain that no one will take
| yellow fever during exposure, who will
| I'LL his system with this-the greatest of
! Natures remedies. ] Will supply full In
| formation to any one who desires TO In
| n child may use II. Two liquids are sup
piled. They are placed In an inhaler bottle
| In the proportions of Ave to one. and when
| so combined the gas is given OFF and In
| hailed into the lungs ms directed. The for
| miiia has already boon published In ten
medical journals, 10 that It can not be
| termed a patent medicine 4Ror secret
| remedy II physicians who are treating
| yellow fever or who have patients who are
| exposed to the disease Will write me and
| say they will make a test of the remedy
| in the treatment Of this disease and also
| use It as prophylactic or preventive in
| cases of exposure. and report results for
! humanity, I will procure the remedy and
| send II to them at once by express on
| their applIcstion at least to the extent OF
| 800. Should Its value become known IN
| the South and a greater quantity OF IL OH
| tained than the amount which ] am WILL
| citizens OF the South and their friends
! in tho North may be willing TO also con-
| tribute In any event this IL a matter
| OF great public concern and can assure
/ you that in my judgment there IL no
| greater remedy known IN the world today
| for all contagious and Infectious diseases
| of microbic nature thar chlorine.