The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-12-20
THE "sFREEZING CURE"
New Scheme for Removing Old Dis
eases From the Human Body.
New York Dec 2O-The Herald saws:

New York, Dec. 2O.-The Herald says:
RaouI Pictet, the famous Swiss
savant, Chevalier Of the Legion OF
Honor, discoverer of the liquefactiOn of
oxygen and member of more than forty
scientific societies in France and Ger
many, has come to America to demon
Strate to physicians and scientists here
what he is convinced is a cure for dis
eases of the lungs, stomach, the circula-
ton and the kidneys.
La Frigotherapie,'' the name of his
new discovery, may perhaps be rough
ly translated in English as the freezing
cure" The necessary machinery con-
siStS of a well of metal lined with thick
furs, in which the patient descends, the
depth being about five feet. This well
is surrounded by an outer shell. while
the cavity between the outer and inner
walls is filled with a combination of
sulphurOus and carbonic acids known
to the scientific world as "Hquide pictet''
after it's discoverer. This gas is kept
in a liquid state at ITO degrees below
zero and is continually forced into the
cavity by pumps.
NJ. Pictet says the patient surrounded
by the furS and the icy liquid has no
impression of cold whatever and in fact
his temperature rises after three sec
Onds' treatment, increasing from one
half to one degree in five minutes. A
period of treatment ranging from five
to fifteen minutes, is always sufficient
for the time being, the number of need
full repetitions varying in each individ-
ual case.
NJ. 9lCIeC says ne nlInSeIT, AFTER nfTe0n
years of Illness was cured after eight
descents into the well. The Prince of
SerVia, he says, was absolutely cured
by six descents after twenty years con-
tinuous i'll health.
NJ. Pictet said that he made his dis
covery of the beneficial effects of the
"tiQuide plctet' some six years ago and
had waited for years in order to secure
a, thorough and scientific test of the
new method by recognized physicians.
In 1896, COrdes and ChOssatt, two scien-
tific medical men of Geneva, took up
for the last two years have devoted
their entire time to the study. Their re-
port was published two months ago and
is a remarkable document.
According to this report, 200 persons
suffering from various Affections OF the
were subjected to every possible physi-
illogical test in connection with the re-
suits of descents into the well, while
many others were examined less rigor-
ously and the astounding statement is
made that in every single case thu
treatment was absolutely successful
and the particular disease cured. A
quarter of an hour after the descent
one-half of the Superf1uouS and dis
ease breeding albumen sugar of phOS-
pilates in the body have entirely diSap-
peared and the appetite of the patient
has been materially increased.
NJ Pictet said he had not made known
his discovery to the world before be-
cause he wished scientific and eXhaus-
tive research to prove the value of his
discovery. He believes that in five or
six years every town of ten thousand
and estimates that it will take an out
lay of ten million dollars to install them
throughout the United States "A COM
plete apparatus with the compressor