The San Francisco call., 1898-02-10

gen, veal and bacilli, is entirely neutral. It is of no value save for the oxygen that may be present and the food value Of the veal. Fortunately for pr. fi1rschleider, his veal bCuillon would not keep, and to preserve it he added per cent of borlc acid. This one fact may perhaps hand his name down to posterity as one or the workers trying to destroy the greatest enemy of mankind. For if oXytubercu1n cures consumption, boric acid cures con- sumption.
 Dr. Daywalt believes his deduction is not to be marveled at He goes on to state that boric acid is most soothing to infiamed surfaces, and that trioxide of boron is the basis of nearly all the popular antiseptic dressings; that it is a non-irritative preservative of animal tissue; will stop necrottc processes; is healing; that animals dy- ing upon the bOraX fields or this State do not decompose but absorb the boron until even their entrails do not fer ment. but become odorless.
 Actual experiment" he states, dem onStrates that a culture medium con- taining only three-tenthS of l per cent of boric acid will inhibit the growth of tubercular bacilli. Some five months ago these thoughts induced me to com mence the hypodermic injection of c. P. boric acid. I soon found it diffi- cult to get pure water from the aver age druggist, let alone pure acid, but I finally succeeded in having prepared a pure, synthetic liquid, which is named an oXygenated solution of bo- ron oxide, or oXyboron It is a pen toxide and contains five parts of oXy- gen ito one part each of boron and hy- drogen, with slight excess of oxygen (about l per cenD in mechanical solu- tion.
 "Of this I introduced hypodermically from five to twenty c. c. at one sit ing. The injection causes but little pain. Of course. it is too early yet to say cure but the results are certain ly very gratifying. His eyes become bright and his color changes from the gray hue of tuberculosis to one more nearly resembling that of health. The appetite rapidly returns and with it a feeling of vigor, which is most pleas ant both to patient and physician "
 The doctor also says that the con- sumptive is generally dyspeptic, and that his food is net assimilated or oXy- geniZed. The boron, he claims, will, in addition to acting as an antiseptic, give up its oxygen to convert the ab- sorbed food into vital energy. At the least, he thinks there is a wide field for investigation, and will probably be rewarded both by loud approbatiOn from some quarters and a storm of criticism from others.
 A friend of the writer furnishes the information that in one case the oXy- boron was injected into a man whose weight had been reduced from 160 to 11S or forty-tWo pounds, through a years sickness, who was a dyspeptic suffering with night sweats and much approximation. He asserts that of his own knowledge the mans weight in- creased to nearly 150 pounds. his di- gestion became good, he ceased to be troubled with night sweats and ceased eXpectorating mucus entirely. This patient had to go East, but others are declared to be improving at a rapid rate.
 Dr. Daywalt will say nothing re- garding his discovery. His only words are: T refuse to be interviewed"