The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-19
"A LEPR0SY CURE.
Wonderful Results From
Liquid Air
apartments Made IN New York
Hospitals with This Recon,
Discovery.
Csan Francisco Bulle,inJ

II some experiments made IN al,
New York City hospital are borne OIL
by further experience there l. reason :,
hope that leprosy and lesser Sniemi.
diseases may be cured by the a29,ica
tion OF liquid air.
Certainly erysipe,ls aad ulcers hlv,
been arrested in this WY by Dr. T.
". Murray. senior physician n IN,
City hospital. and though he + yer,
modest about claiming startling effects
for liquid air in skin diseases. che
demonstrations were most promising
As the Sunday World was the esrlies,
newspaper to describe. phOtographicai-
y and otherwise. the successful cX-
perimen;s o. Professor Tripler IA the
application of his prodigy 20 mechanics
and likewise his proposition % us, =
for embalm.ng the dead. 50 toda. Il l.
enabled - set forth n vastly more i'm
portant function than any We; l.scoy-
cred for liquid air
BY series az experiments sugs .sied
by the Sunday World and carried out
under the direction OF the senior ply
stefan OF the City hospital. It is now
a demClsjrahle fact that liquid air will
arrest the progress OF endemic dis.ls -.
which is 20 say In Other words. that d
will cure them.
My first test said Dr. Murray.
was simply extraordinary in results
1t was case OF migrating erysipe'as.
The patient was man in otherwise.
robust hellth-that is. his physlqu. s.
splendid or I might have hesitate1 in
making an innovation. Tie Is between.
30 and 80 years OF age In cases o.!
erysipeIas OF the migrating sort enc.
flesh becomes pulled up in darkly in.
famed ridges as the poisonous matter.
spreads.
ITO these ridges or infl.rmed parts 7
applied liquid air. using n swab-stick
with cotton swab saturated in the.
liquid. One application Was sufficient.
cal. The flesh gradually turned white.
the blcteri having been destroyed by.
the intense cold. 7 was careful not to.
scar the normal flesh. by contact with
the liquid air. but I gave the iniiamed
Iarts a quick. liberal treatment with
jhe result stated. The flesh remained
white and firm after the freezing pro-
cess had killed the SerU,s.''
With a temperature 81 81: degrees
below zero tn handle. q wss only % be
expected that DR.. Murray should use
she new remedial agency ssuEcr.y. He
thinks the explanation of its effective
ness may be found simply ~ the freez-
ing it gives the bIcilI CT germs. and
tuaj II need have no evil effect on boae
or muscle If judiciously applied.
d.. Kroepfel OF the New YORK Uni-
vsrsity. ut Bellevue Hospital Medical
College. STA ed that he we bCth sur
prised and delighted 20 learn os DIR.
Murray's successful tests which were
undoubtedly the first Of the sort.
IF this is true he s;Sid. and as to
its truth this college will. OF course.
make an immediate investigation. the
medical profession will be given 4
brand new instrument for use in the
saving OF human life. II crysipelas can
be eradielted. then 81 can leprosy-
What a wonderful firing that would
be-"
lis leprosy in the sstrne class?"
Yes. in u sense; 1t Is an endemic
disease. They are not sure. but they
think they have found the bacterial
germs. OF course IL we Kill some germs
we kill all germs that the new men,
Der OF the ethal group can he employed
On. and If we kill the germ W. kill
the disease itself"
DIR. Knoepfel thinks that liquid air
ought now to- be tried in hospital wards
for disinfection-in the absence OF the
patients. OF course-and that Il be tried
definitely instead OF cocaine in surgical
operations. II should he used mediate
ly. however. not directly. until after n
while its effects on the tissues are IN
derStood.