The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-21
People Restored to Health BY the
"Freezing Cure"
N. PICIEL'S DISCOVERY
\DIsEAsE GERMS DESTROYED At
10 BELOW ZERO.
Frenchman Places His Patients In
fur-lined Well, Surrounded By
Liquid Gas-Cures All Diseases of
the Lungs, Stomach and Kidneys
Many Cures Recorded.

New York, Dec. 2O.-The Herald says:
aaoul Pictet, the famous Swiss sa-
want. chevalier Of the Legion of Honor,
discoverer of the liquefaction of oxygen
and member Of more than forty scien-
tific 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. stomach, the circulation and
the kidneys
La frige therapie," the name of his
new discovery, may perhaps be roughly
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 she'll, while
the cavity between the outer and inner
walls is filled with a combination of
sulphurous and carponic acids known
TO the scientific world as ''iquide Pic
Jet" after its discoverer. This gas is
kept in a liquid state at 10 degrees be
low zero. and is continually forced into
the cavity by pumps
NJ. Pictet says the patient surrounded
by the furs and the icy liquid has nc
impression of cold whatever. and. in
fact, his tempera ture rises after three
Seconds treatment, increasing from
one-haif to one degree in five minutes
a period of treatment ranging from
five to fifteen minutes is always suffi-
Gent for the time being, the number
OF needful repetiJions varying in each
individual case
NJ. Pictet says he himself. after if
teen years Of Illness, was cured after
eight descents into the well. The Prince
of Servia, ne says, Was absolutely cured
by six descents. after twenty years of
continuous ill-health.
NJ. Pictet says that he made his dis
ccvery of the beneficial effects of the
"hquide 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 1895 COrdes and Chossatt, two scien-
tic medical men of Geneva, took up
the investigation OF NJ. Pictet's we'll and
for the last two years have devoted
their entire time to the study. Their
report was published TWO months ago,
and is a remarkable document
According to this report 200 persons
suffering from various Affections Of the
lungs, stomach, nerves and kidneys,
were subjected to every possible physi-
illogical test in connection with the re-
suits of descents into the we'll, while
many others We're examined less rig
orously. 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 superfluous 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 10 the world before be-
cause he wished scientific and eXhaus-
tive research TO the value of his dis
cOvery. He believes that in five or six
Years every town of 10000 Inhabitants
rh'ill have one of these wells, and es1i-
mates that it via take an outlay of
SlC.O00G00 TO install them throughout
the United States, a complete apparatus
with the compressor and all necessary
machinery costing $4,000.
While the cost of the treatment was
met by the two doctors who conducted
the test in Geneva, one of whom had
cured himself Of chronic bronchitis by
the freezing cure the poor of Geneva
are receiving gratuitOuS treatment at
this time
". Pictet is sanguine as to the ac-
ceptance Of his treatment by medical
authorities of this country, and be-
lieves that the cure viii be in general
uSE III +AlllEl4tc III TWO OF LnfGG years.
The action of the well, he says, is ex-
tremely rapid in all cases. and has
been a success in consumption as in
other diseases, the effect being similar
to the action of high mountain air on
diseased lungs.
N. Pictet has, however. adapted his
"Hquide Pictet' TO other uses besides
those Of a medical and healing nature.
BY its aid, he says, he has been enabled
to produce a highly refined and purified
quality Of aceEylene gas, which, he be-
lieVeS, viii reVolutionize the method
now used Of lighting. heating and mo-
tive power. Fur flying tn a etyl n gas
at a low temperature by the aid of the
'liQuide Pictet," a combination is OBJ
tanned thas he asserts win not explode.
burns without smoke and makes a light
arOm twenty TO twenty-five times more
bright than that Of the ordinary illu-
minatinS gas. Scientific purity is at
tanned at a temperature Of 213 degrees
below zero, while for the ordinary de-
mends of commerce ITO degrees below
zero is considered sufficient
" Tie "liquide Pictet.' he says. does not
[pUrify acetylene gas alone, but is now
being used in Europe to purify drugs
more particularly chloroform. sulphu-
rOus crheT, etc. The refined chloro-
form is the most important product. be-
ing rendered absolutely pure at no de-
grees below zero. Fifty kilograms Of
''liquide Pictet" per hour are necessary
for all these refining forms, the ma
chine having eighty horse power and
being valued at 100000.
N. Pictet intends TO remain a consid-
cradle time in this country. and viii
visit all the principal colleges and uni
versities Of the north and west He
expects to remain in this city about
five weeks, and viii finally visit scien-
tifc men of the universities and
schools. From this city he win go tc
Harvard then to Philadelphia, and
later TO all the large colleges of the
country.