The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-06-20

Kill she germ but to build up and restore
10 their natural vigor the lungs.
DR.. A. II. Burns Is an enthusiast. He
mas spent many years in study and ex-
pertinent. and believes himself now
equipped 10 battle with the tenacious
baealli or consumption. He thinks he can
Kill them as they lie entIenched before
the delicate Notifications OF the lungs.
Ills system - not complex. and might be
considered the more meritorious since
Or. Burns does not claim for il
the accomplishment Of wonders. He,
no more than any other specialist
in this field, holds out the hope to
the victim on the verge OF the grave But
he does insist, and that emphaticaily, that
In the hr-t and second stages his treat
naent Will cure. IL faithfully carried out.
In the lower hall OF the Masonic temple,
entered from Second avenue, the doctor
has partitioned of spacious apartments,
fitted with the necessary equipments OF -
process. The principal room Is set with
a row of ten tables and their accompany
ing chairs. On each table sits glass re-
eeptaeie Of gioouiar shape ia which Is
brownish fluid. Each receptacle is con-
nected by a rubber tube. with a pipe run
ming along the wall OF the room An
other rubber tube is for the use of the
patient Through the agency Of COM
pressed air. carried by the rubber tube
from the pipe into the glass receptacle.
and thence through the second rubber
tube sn outlet. the patient is enabled 20
fnhale dry fumes arising from the brown
fluid in ;he receptacle. The fluid Is
compound of the most powerful germicides
known. being made up chiefly OF such
volatile elements as carbolic acid and ere
osote. Any one of the ingredients IS so
strong that a drop on the tongue would
instantly cause IL TO blister. and a ringer
dipped in the compound would be numb
ia as he =
most caution. therefore, in preserving the
fumes 10 be inhaled free of moisture. IL
Is IN this that tHe perfection of DIR.
Burns apparatus Is seen.
Nor is dependence placed alone or the
inhaIsnt. In another room Is an appar-
atus TO manufacture oxygen. and hy
means OF rubber tube the pure ozone
can be inhaled, its reViyifyins strength
goiag 10 build up the diseased membranes
Of the lungs. To make assurance douhIy
sure. the patient is given hypodefmic
Injection OF oxytUbercuiun. This IL RAN
ufactured By Prof J. .. Hirschfelder Of
the Cooper Medical College. and by its
manufacturer Is used alone in the treat
nlent u consumption. In fact. either of
the first mentioned treatments is cousid-
erred sufficient under ordinary cIrcum-
stances 70 cure consumption. IL is by
naszin< them that DIR. Burns hopes 10
prove most effective.
HE treatment Us +1Bl-Alt ptittR - 4lt--e-N~
sariiy "a Slow process" said Or Buras.
''as the disease requires the asa % msdi-
CineS "a which tha patient must become
accustomed gradually. Stronger medicines
than ths average person can stand must bs
given "a successfully cope with cousgwr-
tian ard also wtta catarrh. For twenty
fve years / have been experimenting With
iahalants Before the germ theory was
expe0nded and generally accepted. / used
- max oxygen Ira uy kitchen stove b.
l}essag IL Is be the sovereign remedy
When the necessity q "a germl~
eide became apparent. began 10
experiment with the Nolrs hot-
tie USING the same Huid con-
pound vcu SIRE here" pointing 20 tae glass
rer~ptseles spoken 81 before.
- have Seen trying "a perfect the use og
}his tuha3ant. ant also 70 combine tre adj
mtnIStrs5fon ~ other specifics Ia make
the result more certain. Il required Years
Of experiment 20 combine these powerful
Ingredients iu a agia AT oDce effective aHsI
safe ! have solved the problem can
not AEree 20 cGra Is perscn who has
reached the third stage of consumption
rl4a9xh ssv~n "a these car grant q rev
lease o. hte. witA sEroGg possibilities OF a
cure.
l3r kissrns 81 graduate ~ ira Bellevue
Hospital 8u8 Medt-sl college ~ New YORK
fis b. an ej3erly IRAN hWt when Ne sagks
~ hls process hts face ltEA1s Up VITA rae
enthusiasm oE yC8ta-
Il als j. ere frt4e system for the treat-
neeus az ccn$ametiou. SeAtfie viii Aero uga
the Mes X lgya]3sS nef oniy So t}sls state,
buI ia sG pasfs ~ tee world