The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-07-30


the condition Of the generous tissue. The
treatment for the most part. although the
cancer was frozen solid. was rot painful
DR.. White explained that while the flesh
was frozen it was not frost bitten. and
that 1t would recover its former STATE. Only
wet cold causes frost bite. whereas LIQUID
air is absolutely dry. DR.. White tells Of
an experiment in which the ear Of a live
rabbit was completely frozen by pacing
it IN liquid air. II was SO sim that a
piece easily snapped off in the fingers with
out pain and without any flow Of blood
In ten minutes circulation was re-estab-
lished and the ear regained its former tenn
perature and color
Dr.. White has experimental longest with
ulcers, assesses, boils and other sores He
says of them:
Il have now treated so many cases that
l can say positively that medicine has
nothing a its disposal to-day which will
so quickly thoroughly and with as Httle
pain, clear up the edges and stimulate the
healing of an ulcer as liquid air does when
properly applied. Only one freezing Is
needed to cure an abscess. boil or carbuu-
Gle in the early stages. II the case is more
advanced several daily applications may be
necessary. In all cases pain is instantly re-
lieved after the liquid air has been spray
ed on the sore and the healing begins in
stantly and proceeds swiftly"
DR.. White has been making careful In
vestigations to explain this powerful cura-
tive action of liquid air He has come 70
the conclusion that the air does not kill the
germs of the various diseases; IL is not an
antisepic. not a germicide. Although a
temperature of 100 degrees of heat destroys
all germ life DR. White has discovered
from careful experiments in the New York
~ fol
the cold of liquid air. 3l2 degrees below
zero, VIII not njure the germs of typhoid
fever anthrax and diphtheTia. He submit
ted all of these germs, not only directly
TO the liquid air, but immersed them in
the air in glass tubes. In every case the
bacilu terminated when removed from the
effects of the intense cold. DR. Huddlestou
tried liquid air on vaccine virus and found
that 1t was effected for short exposures no
more than the germs. Prof. McKondrick
has found that even the seeds of common
plants like cucumbers, wheat, squash and
so on, will terminate almost as well as
ever after being submitted to a cold of 800
degrees below zero. Lord Kelvin, in dis
GUESSING the origin of life on this planet,
once suggested that the first seeds may
have been brought here through the cold
of intersteller space in a meteor, although
he didn't explain how the seed could find
their way into the meteor In the first
place.
If, then, liquid air is not a germlcide,
where does il get its curious and wonder
full curative properties?
you must remember" explains Or.
White that liquid air is over 400 degrees
colder than the human body. BY no other
means than its application could we pro-
duce so sudden and extreme a shock 10 a
certain part OF the body without Injury to
the tissues. 1t takes only a moment to
produce locally the most extreme cold and
but a little more than that time for the
part TO regain its temperature, thus Sc
curing very great local stimulation. The
Involuntary fbers and the blood vessels
are made to contract to the last degree,
only to diate forcibly on the removal of
the spray Cold also retards the activity
Of bacteria, and this, with the stimulation
of the ordinary curative agencies Of the
body brings about a cure"
In other words liquid air is great help
er TO nature, allowing nature to do her
own work in her own way.
In this connection il is Interesting tC
note that a Russian professor Is using the
stimulating effects of liquid air In another
and even more novel method than EN-
ployed by Dr. White. He reduces the
temperature Of room by the use of liquid
experiments dog was confined under
these conditions for ten hours without in
furious effects, and at the end OF the
period Ii was found to be not only in good
health but prOdi2eous,y hungry. The SCI
enlist then ventured 10 try the expert
ment on himself. After a fun day in the
dry. stin. cold atmosphere, he found him
self exceedingly exhillrated and the in
tense combustion required to keep his
body warm resulted in a great desire for
food. He continued these experiments
some time and declared himself TO be
much more vigorous and robust
Dr. White thinks that medicine Is just
on the borders of the vast field of useful
ness for liquid air. He thinks it may be
used In the pulmonary diseases, in the
reduction Of fever and so on, although the
subject has as yea received comparatively
little attention. He intmates that In the
near future a place will be arranged,
probably In some hospital or clinic, with
all the facilities for making and admins
tering liquid ara liquid air hospital, 50
that physicians can take their patients TO
it as they would TO private hospital and
conveniently apply the treatment.
Two other physicians have been maxi
ing somewhat extensive experiments with
liquid air supplied by Mr. Tripler. one
of them, Dr. J. William Giles of Nyack,
N. y, recently performed an operation
for cancer in which he completely froze
away the generous tissue with most en-
coura ging results.
THE results OF my cancer treatments"
he said "are fun of promise. II Is IN
doubleday a fact that the application OF
liqu.d air viii relieve the agonizing pain
OF cancer This has been proven be-
yond a doubt Its use viii IN many cases
retard the advance Of the disease, and
l am confident that I'm certain forms Of
cancer 1t Is curative. 1t is quite remark
able that up to this time the use Of liquid
air has not been followed by any bad re-
suits"
DR.. G. Fish Clark OF Brooklyn believes
growths Of all kinds liquid air will even
tunlly supercede the knife.
'"The process" he says, lis this: When
the tumor is frozen the circulation is at
once stopped, and growth ceases. When
the tumor is thawod out there IL stag
nation and nature begins at once 10
throw off the dead tissues. Deep down
under the frozen tumor a new skin sur
face is gradually formed and the tumor
aau,, a1fndet i'm perceDtib1V RhTiulta