Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-25
NEW HOPE FOR CONSERVATIVES.


a highly important therapeutic ex-
pertinent has been progressing silently
during the past few months at the
medical institute, rue la Boetie. Paris.
From the results already obtained II
seems that tuberculosis attacked Wig
orously by rational treatment is
about to capitulate. and in scientific
circles the idea is growing that in n
comparatively short time the terrible
malady will be eradicated, says the
Figaro. At all events, IL is beyond
question that 'henceforth consumptives
in the first and second degree can be
restored to health
There is nothing mysterious about
the method now employed. 1t consists
purely of the simultaneous application
of three methods well known to the
medical faculty. the individual results
OF which have already proved satisfac-
tory. These methods are formalde-
hyde inhalatlons. subcutaneous lnjec-
tons or serum of goats blood. with the
addition of a static electric bath.
The antiseptic power of formic aide
hyde Is well known. In the opinion
of the specialists in tuberculosis its ac-
ton upon the Koch bacillus is decisive.
The difficulty whichw as at first con-
sidered insurmountable. lay In its APP
plication. 1t Is known that the inhala-
ton of formal vapors in the pure state
provokes violent coughing intolerable
irritation of mucous membrane. Con-
sequently 1t Ia dangerous to put deli
cate and sickly respiratory organs un-
der their microbean toxity. Therefore
1t became necessary to discover sort
of go-between method. and one of the
discoveries Of the Medical Institute Of
Paris liz the Introduction of n comblna-
ton OF formaldehyde and carbonic acid
gas. on annsthetic whose association
renders possible daily inhalation OF
twenty-five minutes or more. The
bacillus of Koch, combated directly in
the caverens here 1t thrives prolifically.
rapidly loses its vitality. and ceases to
multiply in a short lapse Of time. The
facilitating approximations diminish,
and the patient experiences marked
improvement.
The readers of the Figary have not
forgotten the impassioned debates to
which the discovery of the subcutan-
eous injections gave rise. II is now
admitted that their dynamite action
is considerable. and that the simple
method of introducing by the hypoder-
mic method few centimeters OF dis
TILED water in the human economy
produces an increase of vital force.
If, instead of aqua simplex, steril-
lied serum is employed, according to
the methods in use in the Pasteur IN
stitute. and If this serum Is extracted
from the blood of n goat, an animal
essentially refractory to tuberculosis,
the Koch bacillus, attacked In Its
vitality by being forced to live in a
liquid unsuitable for its propagation,
fades out and dies in the blood of the
patient that 1t was devouring. 1t lie
the blending of the two methods OF
treatment that constitutes the actual
basis of the therapeutics employed In
the hospital for young consumptives at
Vallipinte, where the mortality has
decreased in such marked degree.
But the medical institute of the rue
de In Boetie add to the first two a
third procedure. which consists in the
application of static electricity. an ac-
ton upon the causes of which there
is at yet nothing absolutely known,
the patient regains his vitality. his re-
sistance becomes accumulated, and it Ia
not rare to fiend patients who seemed
to he literally on their last legs getting
up. recapturing their appetites ana
rapidly gaining flesh.