The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1899-07-21
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Wonderful Results From
LIQUID Air
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rsusprp,s WIN Tn, Recon,
Discovery.
(San Francisco Bulletin.)

II some experiments made In the
New York City hospital are borne out
by further experience there Is reason to
hope that leprosy and lesser endemic
diseases may be cured by the applica-
ton of liquid air.
| Certainly erysipelas and ulcers have
been arrested in this way by DR.. T.
w. Murray. senior physician at the
City hospital, and though he is very
modest about claiming startling effects
for liquid air in skin diseases. the
demonstrations were most promising
As the Sunday World was the earliest
newspaper to describe, photographical-
ly and otherwise, the successful ex-
periments OF Professor Tripler in the
application of his prodigy to mechanics
and likewise his proposition to use !,
for embalming the dead. 80 today 1t Is
enabled TO set forth vastly more i'm.
portan. function than any yet discov-
cred for liquid air.
BY series OF experiments suggested
by the Sunday World and carried out
under the direction of the senior ply.
stefan of the City hospital, it is now
a demcnstrable fact that liquid air will
arrest the progress OF endemic diseases
which is to say In other words, that 1,
will cure them.
my first test" said DR.. Murray
was simply extraordinary in results
1t was case Of migrating erysipelas
The patient was man In otherwise
robust health-that is. his physique Is
|splendid or I might have hesitated In
making an innovation. He is between
SO and 40 years of age. In cases Of
erysipelas Of the migrating sort the
flesh becomes pulled up in darkly in
famed ridges as the poisonous matter
spreads.
TO these ridges or inflamed parts
applied liquid air, using swab-stict
with cotton swab saturated in tn,
liquid. One application was sufficient
The effect in a few minutes was magi
cal. The flesh gradually turned white
the bacteri having been destroyed b!
the intense cold. was careful not I,
sea-. the normal flesh by contact will
the liquid air, but I gave the iniiame'
parts a quick. liberal treatment will
the result stated. The flesh remained
white and firm after the freezing pro
cess had killed the germs"
With q temperature Of 3l2 degrees
below zero to handle, 1t was only to b,
expected that DR.. Murray should us,
the new remedial agency gingerly. HI
thinks the explanation Of It's effective
ness may be found simply in the freez
ing It gives the bacilli or germs, ant
Luat it need have no evil effect on bon'
or muscle II judiciously applied.
i Or. Knoepfel of the New York Uni
versity, at Bellevue Hospital Medica
College, stated that he was both sur
prised and delighted to learn OF DR.
Murriy's successful tests which wer,
undoubtedly the first OF the sort.
IF this is true" he said. land as t
, its truth this college will, OF course
make an immediate Investigation, tn
medical profession will be given ;
brand new instrument for use In tn
saving OF human life. II erysipelas cal
be eradicat5d, then SO can leprOsy
Wha. 4 wonderful thing that woul,
be-"
rs !eprosy in the same class"
Yes, in q sense; 1t Is an endemi
disease. They are not sure. but the.
think they have found the bacteria
germs. or course If we kill soh.. germ
We kill all germs that the new mem
Der of che e.hal group can be employees
, On, and II we kill the germ We xii
the disease itself"
Dr.. Knoepfel thinks that liquid al
ought now to be tried In hospital ward
for disinfection-in the absence OF tn
patients, OF course-and that 1t be trle,
definitely instead OF cocaine In surgica
operations. II should be used mediate
ly, however, not directly. until after
while It's effects on the tissues are nm
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