The evening times., 1898-12-20
LIQUID OXYGEN :
FOR HUMAN ILLS
A Frozen Bath Advocated by
a Swiss Sayant.
DIPS In A FUR-LINED TANK
Nj. RaOul Pictet Launches Forth a
Freezing Cure.
Declares That Tests of His Invention Prove
Its Merits-Remarkable Cures
Reported.

Reported.
New York. Dec 2O-M Raoul Pictet a
famous Swiss savant, Chevalier of the
Legion of Honor, discoverer of the lique-
faction of oxygen, and member of more
than forty scientific societies in France
and Germany, has come to America to
demonstrate to physicians and scientists
here what he is convinced is a cure for
diseases of the lungs, the stomach, the
circulation and the kidneys.
La frigotherapie," the name of his new
discovery, may perhaps be roughly
translated in English as the freezing
cure" The necessary machinery, NJ. Pic
tet says, consists of a well of metal
lined with thick furs, into which the pa
tient descends, the depth being about five
feet The well is surrounded by an outer
/ shell, while the cavity between the outer
and inner walls is filled with combina-
ton of sulphurous and carbonic acid,
known TO the scientific world as "Liquide
! Pictet,'' after its discoverer. The gas is
kept in a liquid state at ll0 degrees be-
low zero, and is continually forged into
the cavity by specially constructed
pumps.
Curious and incomprehensible as the
fact may seem, NJ. Pictet says the pa
! tient surrounded by the furs and the icy
! LIQUID has no impression of cold what
! ever and. in fact. his temperature rises
! after three seconds treatment, increasing
! from one-half to one degree in five min
! utes A period of treatment ranging from
five 60 fifteen minutes is always sufficient
for the time being the number of need
/ ful repetitions varying in each individual
case. NJ. Pictet says he himself, after
fifteen years of illness, was cured after
eight descents into the WELL The
/ Prince of Servia, he says was absolutely
cured by six descenrs, after twenty
years of continuous i'll health.
! NJ Pictet said last evening through the
medium of an interpreter. that he had
made his discovery OF the beneficial ef-
fects of the ''Liquide Pictet" some six
years ago. and had waited for years in
order TO procure thorough and scienth he
! test of the new process by recognized ply
! sicians. In 1896 NM Cordes and Chossat,
two prominent scientific medical men Of
1 Geneva, took up the investigation OF NJ.
Pictels we'll and for the last TWO years
! have devoted their entire time 10 this
! study. Their report was published two
months ago. and is a remarkable docu-
ment.
According To this report. 2G5 persons suf-
fering from various Affections of the
lungs. stomach, nerves and kidneys We're
subjected to every possible physiological
! test In connection with the results of des
/ cents into the 'Pictet we'll while many
others were examined less vigorously, and
the astounding statement is made that in
! every single case the treatment was abso-
! lutely successful, and the particular dis
/ ease cured. quarter of an hour after
/ the descent. one-half of the superfluous
and disease breeding albumen, sugar or
/ phosphates in the body have entirely dis
appeared, and the appetite of the patient
/ has been materially increased.
NJ Pictet declares that he has not made
/ known his discovery to the world before
! because he wished scientific and exhaust
i've research TO prove the value of his dis
| covery. He believes that in five or six
! years every town of l0.0GJ inhabitants will
/ possess one of these wells and estimates
| that ii Will take an outlay of coo to
/ install them throughout the United States
| a complete apparatus. with the compressor
| and all the necessary machinery, costing
! $5oGoG.
| While the cost of treatment was decided
| by the two doctors who conducted the
| tests in Geneva, one of whom, NJ. Pictet
! says, had cured himself of chronic bron-
| ehitis by the freezing cure" the poor of
! Geneva are receiving gratuitous treatment
! at the present time.
NJ Pictet is sanguine as TO the accept
| ance of his treatment by medical authori-
I ties in this country, and believes that the
/ freezing cure" will be in general use in
America in two or three years. The action
! of The well, NJ Pictet says is extremely
rapid in all cases, and has been Z s success
! full in consumption in other diseases
| the effect being similar TO the action of
high mountain air on diseased lungs.
NJ. Pictet has, however, adapted his
'Liquide Pictet' to other uses beside
those of medicinal and healing nature
! By its aid he says, he has been enabled
to produce a highly refined and purified
! quality of acetylene gas which its inveu-
| tor believes will revolutionize the present
methods of lighting, heating and motive
! power. Purifying the acetylene gas at a
| low temperature, by the aid of the Lii
guide Pictet," a product is obtained that
! its inventor asserts. will not explode
! burns absolutely without smoke. and
| produces a light from twenty to twenty
five times more brilliant than that of or
! dinary Illuminating gas. Scientific purity
! is attained at ten, temperature of 2l3
| degrees below zero while for the ordi-
nary demands of commerce 10 degrees
| below zero is considered sufficient. A
| French company. organized to develop
this purified acetylene gas has been re-
/ Gently incorporated with capital of
| S1.000,0 600.
The "Liquide Picket does not how
| ever. purify acetylene gas alone. but is
now being used in Europe to purify
drugs. more particularly chloroform. sui
| phurous ether. cocaine and antipyrine
| The refined chloroform is the most i'm
| portant product. being rendered absolute
/ al ITO daOrpaS halnu- &,
| pure, indeed, is this new quality Nj
/ Picket told me that has been used surgi-
! caily for 100000 persons in France with
| no fatal results the percentage of fatality
! in connection with the use of ordinary
/ chloroform being one death in every two
| thousand cases. Fifty Kilograms of Lii
| guide Picket per hour are necessary for
! these refining processes. the machine de-
veloping eighty horse power and being
valued at $20O0
Nj. Pictet intends to remain a consid-
er.sb bile time in this country, and will visit
all the principal colleges and universi-
ties of the North and West. He has
! many acquaintance among scient fic
/ men in the United States and has
, brought with him numerous letters of in
| PRODUCTION, among others letters to Mrs.
Levi p. Morton. Prof Agassiz, of Har-
! ward University, and NJ. Piola, the Swiss
minister at Washington.
The Savant expects to remain in this
| city about five weeks and will first pay
| visits to the scientific men of the uniyer-