The herald., 1898-12-21
ONE MORE SURE CURE
FOR DISEASES AFFLICTING
HUMANITY
A PATENT COLD-AIR PROCESS
Fully Guaranteed to Cure All Sorts Of
Affections, From Chilblains to
Consumption
Associated Press Special Wire

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NEW YORK, Dec 2O.-The Herald saws:
Raoul Pctet, the famous Swiss savant
chevalier of the Legion of Honor, dis
coverer of the liquefaction of oxygen and
member of more than forty scientific socie-
ties in France and Germany, has come to
America to demonstrate to physicians and
scientists here what he is convinced is cure
Tor diseases of the lungs, stomach, the circu-
lation and the kidneys.
La Frigetherapie, the name of his new
discovery, may perhaps be roughly trans
lated in English as the freezing cure"
The necessary machinery consists of
we'll of metal Lined with thick furs, in
which the patient dcscends, the depth being
about five feet. This we'll is surrounded by
an outer shell, while the cavity between the
outer and inner walls is filled with a com
bination of sulphurous and carbonic acids
known to the scientific world as Lquide
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.
M. Pictet says the patient, surrounded by
the furs and the icy liquid, has no impress
sion Of cold whatever, and in fact his tenn
perature rises after three seconds treat
ment increasing from one-half to one degree
in five minutes. a period of treatment
ranging from five to fifteen minutes, is al
ways sufficient for the time being, the num-
Der of needful repetitions varying in each in
dividual case.
M. Pictet says he himself, after fifteen
years. was cured after his descent into the
well. The Prince of Servia was absolutely
cured by six descents after twenty years of
continuous i'll health.
NJ. Pictet says he made his discovery Of
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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, Cordez and Chossatt, two scientific
medical men of Geneva, took up the investi-
cation of M. Pictet's well 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 docu-
ment
According to this report, 200 persons suf-
fering from various Affections from the
lungs, stomach and kidneys, were subjected
to every possible physiological test in con
nection with the results of the descents into
the well, while many others were examined
less vigorously and the astounding state
ment 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-halt of the
superhuous and disease-breedng albumen
entirely disappeared and the appetite OF the
patient had materially increased.
M. Pictet said he had not made known
his discovery to the world, because he
wished scientific and exhaustive research to
the value of his discovery.
He believes that in five or six years every
town of ten thousand inhabitants will have
one of these wells and estimates that it
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to to install them throughout the United
States, a complete apparatus with the COM
pressor and all necessary machinery cost
ing $4,000.
While the cost of the treatment was de-
cided by two doctors who conducted the
tes. in Geneva, one of whom had cured him
self of chronic bronchitis by the freezing
cure the poor of Geneva are receiving
gratutous treatment at this time.
M. Pictet is sanguine as to the acceptance
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 extremely rapid in all cases and has
been success in consumption as in other
diseases, the effect being similar to the ac-
tion of high mountain air on diseased lungs.
M. Pictet has, however, adapted his
"Liquide Pictet" to other uses besides 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, he believes, will re-
volutionize the methods now used of light
ing, heating and motive power. Purify
ing the acety lene gas at a low temperature
by the aid of the ''Liquide pictet,' COM
bination is obtained that he asserts will not
explode, burns without smoke and makes
light from 20 to 25 times more brilliant
than that of ordinary Illuminating gas.
Scientific purity is attained at a temperature
of 2l3 degrees below zero, while for the
ordinary demands of commerce ITO degrees
below zero is considered sufficient.
The "Liquide Pictet," he says, does not
purify acetylene gas alone, but is now be-
ing used in Europe to purify drugs, more
particularly chloroform, sulphurolis ether,
etc. The refined chloroform is the most
important product, being rendered absolute
ly pure at ITO degrees below zero Fifty
kilograms of "Liquide Pictet" per pound
arc necessary for all these refining forms,
the machine having eighty horsepower
and being valued at $200,000.
M. Pictet intends to remain n consider
able time in this country and will visit all
the principal colleges and universities of
the North and West. He expects to remain
in this city about five weeks and will finally
visit scientific men of the universities and
schools. From this city he will 20 to Har-
ward, then to Philadelphia and later to all
the larrp colleges Of thn couptrv