The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-24
PARIS DOCTORS NEW CURE
He Infuses Formaldehyde Into the
Lungs For Consumption.
(New. York Tribunel

NEW YORK Tribune-)
Paris.-The medical faculty OF Paris is
devoting considerable attention to a new
cure for tuberculosis through the trans
fusion of microbes destroying drugs by
means of electric currents passed through
the patients chest and iungh. The dis
covery of the treatment. which mas been
submitted TO severe tests at Paris and
Bordeaux during the last four years, is
attributed to NJ. Francisque Crotte of
Paris, and exhaustive reports on the re
suits of the experiments were read before
the international medical congress re
Gently by DR. Bertheau, medical delega te
to the congress from the city of Paris,
and by DR. Ducamp, delegate to the con-
gresS from Bordeaux. A third PAPER on
the same subject was submitted TO the
congress by DR.. Labadie, who attended
the congress as delegate of the Medico-
Legal society Of New York.
The conclusions of the three reports are
emphatically in favor of the new treat
ment and this view is shared by Professor
Virchow of Berlin. and by DR.. Brouardel
of Paris, who predict that the treatment
is likely to receive the sanction of nnedi-
cal faculties of Paris and Berlin for
adoption In the public hospitals of those
cities. The Paris physicians consider tina I
NJ Crotte's discovery may have far reach
ing consequences, for it enables extremely
powerful antiseptics to be introduced into
the human system and Permeate the It's
sues, and even the bones, so that bacills
may be killed without injury to the
drugs were absorbed by the system
through the stomach or by other means
hitherto employed.
WINGED the physicians here that a solution
OF formal. Known as formaldehyde, con-
fatal to the baciIi of tuberculosis, even
when applied in the form of vapor This
exceedingly powerful antiseptic cannot
without great danger be taken through
the stomach, and reports submitted to the
medical congress. by Drs- Berthe3u. Du-
camp and Iabadie show that by static
electricity the VanOF of fOrma dpNVde hq
been transfUsed into the tissues of the
chest and lungs, thereby destroying the
bacilh of tuberculosis and preventing re-
production in their tubes of cultivation.
Since M Crotte communicated the
Academy of Science in 1884. 500 tubercuIo-
sis patients in France have been treated
by his method and GOO of these have been
completely cured, The number of patients
whose treatment has been set froth in
clinical detail by the reporting physicians
and submitted to the congress is thirty
two or these ten were reported upon
reported upon by Dr. Bertheau, eleven
by De; Ducamp and twenty-one by DR.
1abad1e- All the cases known to have
been treated by the new method are di-
vided into three categories-first patients
who are in the first stages OF tuberculo-
sis; second, those who have reached the
second stage, and, third those where the
progress of the disease is so advanced
that under ordinary circumstances they
would be considered incurable
The statistics submitted to the congress
show that the proportion of cures obtained
tients of the first category was 100 Der
cent The percentage of cured patients o.
the second category was 70 per cent and
the proportion of cures N the third cate
CORY was 90 per cent These results are
considered highly satisfactory and have
made a decided impression on the leadine
physicians in Paris. and especially upon
those who make speciality of tuberculo-
sis. Elaborate experiments have beer
made with guinea pigs and rabbits tx
prove the exact quantities of tornado,
hyde transmitted to he tissues of the
lungs by the application Of electric cur
rents and also TO show how the incensit,
OF TRANSMISSION can be regulated.
The method of reatmenE is simple TIL,
patient is placed on an isolated chair in
static machine and towels saturated
with a solution of formaldehyde are an
piled to the chest and back The Solution
varies in strength from 1 to 10 per cent
according 20 the degree of the disease an,
according to the patients constitution anf
temperament The machine is theT
started and the current. with ef1uvia N
sparks, or with both, is passed through
the lungs. While this is going on the p9
tient inhales the formaldehycee with Ii.
electric effluVfa, obtained by placing .
saturated sponge in contact with one al
the poles of the instrument