Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-12-30
SWISS SAVANT'S DISCOVERY.
N. Pictst's Freezing Cure" for Consumption
and Other lls
New York Herald

and Other Is
New York Herald
Raoul Pictet, the famous Swiss
ca,nnt, oLc~alior of the Legion OF
Honor, discoverer of the liquefaction
of oxygen, and member OF more than
40 scientific societies in France and
Germany, has come to America to
demonstrate to physicians and scien-
fists here what he is convinced is Il
cure for diseases of the lungs, stomach,
the circulation and the kidneys
1" La Frigethcrapio,' the name of his
new discovery, may be roughly trans
lated in English as the" freezing cure
The necessary machinerary consists of
we'll of metal lined with thick furs,
III 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 combination of
sulphurous and carbonic acids known
to the scientific world as "Liquide
Pictet,' after its discoverer. This gas
is kept in liquid state at ITO degrees
below zero, and is continually forced
into the cavity by pumps.
NJ. Pictet says the patient, sur.
rounded by the furs and the icy liquid,
has no impression of cold whatever,
and, in fact, his temperature rises af
ter three seconds treatment, increas-
ing from one-half to one degree in five
minutes. A period OF treatment rang
ing from to IL minutes is always
sufficient for the time being, the num-
ber OF needful repetitions varying in
each individual case.
NJ. Pictet says he, himself, after 15
years of illness, was cured after eight
desccnts into the well. The Prince of
Ser' ia, he says, was absolutely cured
by SIX descents after 20 years of con-
tinuous ill-health.
NJ. Pictet says that he made his dis
covery of the beneficial effects of the
Z" "Liquide Pictet" some six years ago,
and had waited for years in order to
secure thorough and scientific test
of the new method by recognized
physicians. In 1896, Cordes and
ChosSatt, two scientific medical men
OF Geneva, took mp the investigation
OF VI. Pictet's we'll, and for the last two
years have devoted their entire time to
the study. Their report was pub.
lished two months ago, and is Il lie
markable document.
According to this report 200 persons
suffering from various afflictions of the
lungs, stomach, nerves and kidneys,
were subjected to every possible physi-
illogical test in connection with the
results of descents into the we'll, while
many others were examined less rigor-
ously, and the astounding statement is
made that in every single case the
treatment was absolutely successful,
and the particular disease cured. A
quarter of an hour after the descent
one-half of the superfuous and disease
breeding albumen sugar of phosphates
in the body have entirely disappeared,
and the appetite of the patient has
been materially increased.
NJ. Pictet said he had not made
known his discovery to the world be-
fore because lie wished scientific and
exhaustive research to the value of his
discovery. He believes that in five or
six years every town of 10000 inhabi-
tants will have one of the wells, and
estimates that it will take an outlay of
$l0,O00,O00 to install them throughout
the United States, complete appar-
atus, with the compressor and all
necessary machinery, costing 1900.
While the cost of the treatment was
borne by the two doctors who con-
Quoted the test in Geneva, one of whom
had cured himself OF chronic bron-
chitis by the freezing cure" the poor
OF Geneva are receiving gratuitous
treatment at this time.
NJ. Pictet is sanguine as to the ac-
ceptance of his treatment by medical
authorities OF this country, and believes
that the cure will be in general use in
America in two or three years. The
action of the well, he says, is extreme
ly rapid in all cases, and has been n
success III consumption as in other
diseases, the effect being similar to the
action of high mountain air on dis.
eased lungs.
InsuIted
Mr.. Lawhead-Whv do you treat
me so coldly? Why didn't you an
swer the note | wrote you last Thurs
day?
Miss Brushley-Sir, | don't wish to
have anything more to say to you.
You began your note by saying you
thought you would drop me line"
| want You to understand that I'm not
a fish,