Omaha daily bee., 1900-09-30
4 PARIS DOCTORS NEW CURE.
lie Infuscs FormnIdcbydc Into the
Lmngs for COms N ID don.

The medical faculty of Paris is devoting
considerable attention to a new cure for
mlcrobe destroying drugs by means OF
electric currents passed through the pa.
the treatment, which has been submitted
TO severe tests at Paris and Bordeaux dur
Ing the last four years, Is attributed to
NJ Francisque Crottc of Paris, and ex-
haustiVe reports on the results of the ex-
perments were read before the interna-
Ional medical congress recently by Dr.
Bertheaii, medical delegate to the con-
grcss from the city of Paris, and by DR..
Ducamp, delegate to the congress from
lect was submitted to the congress by Dr.
Labadie.
dispatch to the New York Tribune. are
emphatically I'm favor Of the new treat
ment and this view is shared by Prof; yir::
chow of Berlin and by DR.. Brouardel of
likely to receive the sanction OF the med
ing to tho, patients constitution and tenn
lcal faculties Of Paris and Berlin Tor adop-
ton in the public hospitals of those cities.
The Paris physicians consider that NJ
Crotte,s discovery may have far-reaching
powerful antiseptics to be introduced into
the human system and pormeate the It's
may be killed without injury to the pa
tient, which would result II the same drugs
were absorbed by the system through the
stomach or by other means hitherto em-
ployed.
A long series of experiments has con-
vlnced the physicians here that solution
of formal known as formaldehyde, con-
tainin& iodide and mercury, is absolutely
when applied I'm the form of vapor. This
exceedingly powerful antiseptic cannot
without great danger be taken through the
stomach and reports submitted to the med
ical congress by Drs, Bertheau, Ducamp
and I.abadie show that by static electricity
the yapor of fOrmaldehyde has been trans
iusfd mo me tissues or the chest and
lungs, thereby destroying the bacilli of
tnoeTcHiosis tGe ana preyenng reproduction
Since NJ. Crotte communicated the tho
ory OF his discovery to the French Acad-
emy OF Sciences In 1894, 800 tuberculosis pa
tients In France have been treated by his
method and 600 OF these have been com
whose treatment has been SET forth IN
clinical detail by the reporting physicians
and submitted to the congress is thirty
DR., Bertheau eleven by DIR. Decamp and
twenty-one by DR. Labadie All the cases
method are divided into three categorios--
nrst patients who are I'm the first stage of
tu6erc4loss; second those who, have
where the progress of the disease Is so
advanced that under ordinary ciroum-
stances they would be considered incura-
The statistics submitted to the congress
show that the proportion of cures obtained
by the TRANSMISSION method applied to pa
uents Of the first category was 100 per
cent me percentage of cured patients
the proportion of cures IN the third cate
CORY was, 80 per cent; These results are
'pllAlutIcu HlBnlN bhllSldclDIy ana nave
made a decided Impression on the leading
physicians in Paris, and especially upon
those who make q specially OF tubercuo-
sis. Elaborate experiments have been
made with guinea pigs and rabbits to prove
the exact quantities of formaldehyde trans
mtted 10 the tissue of the lungs by the
application OF electric currents and also
TO show how the intensity of TRANSMISSION
can be regulated,
The method Of eatmGnt Is simple The
patient IL placed on an Isolated chair In a
static machine and towels saturated with
a solution OF formaldehyde are applied TO
the chest and back. The solution varies
TO the degree OF the disease and accord
ing To the patients constitution and tenn
permanent The machine Is then started
and the current, with efIiuVia or sparks or
with both, is passed through the lungs
While this Is going on the patient inhales
the formaldehyde with the electric efiuvia
obtained by placing saturated sponge In
contact with one of the poles OF the in
strument.