Arizona republican., 1900-09-11

The conclusions of the three reports are cmpkatically in favor of the new treatment. and this view is shared by Prof. Virchow. of Berlin, and by i1r. I3ruuarGel. of Paris. Who pr-dict tha: the treatment is likely to receive the sanction of the medical faculties If Paris and Berlin foI' adoption in the public hospitals of those cities.
 The Paris physicians consider that NJ. Crotte's discovary may have far reaching consequences. for it enables extremely powerful antiseptics to be introduced into the human system and permeate the tissues and even the bones so that the bacilli may be killed with out injury to the patient, which would result if the same drugs Were absorbed Ey the system through the stomach or by other means hitherto employed. Long series of experiments has con- Vinced the physicians here that a solu- ton of formol, known as formaldehyde, containing iCde and mercury, is abso- lutely fatal to the bacilli of tuberCu- losis, evfn when applied in the form of vapOr. This exceedingly powerful an tiseptic cannot without great danger be taken through the stomach, and the re- ports submitted tO the medical con- gress by Drs. B5rthau, Decamp and | I4abadie show that by static electricity the vapor f the formaldehyde has | been transfused into the tissues of the l chest and of the lungs, thereby destroy ing the bacilli Of tuberculosis and pre-
 venting reproduction in their tubes of i cultivation.
 ! Since NJ. CT tte communicated the i theory of his discovery to the French academy of science. in 1894, 800 tuber- Culosis patients have been treated by hi- method, and coo of these have been i completely cured. The number of pa | tients whose treatment has been set i forth in "clinicaI' detail by the report ing physicians and submitted to ihe i congress is thiriy-two. Of these ten Wcr- reported upon by Dr. Barthaau. eleven by Dr. Ducamp. and twenty 1 cna by Dr. Laba1ie. All the cases known to have been treated by the new method arc divided into three cat go- ries; firs t, patients who arr in ;he first stage of tuberculosis: second those who ! have reached the second stage. and ] third. those Wi r. the progress of the l disease is 90 advanced that under or ] Ginary circumstances they would be l considered incurabic. The statistics
 submitted to the congress show that 1 tn, proportion of cures obtained by i the transfusinn method applied to pa ;ients of the first category was 100 per ! cent. The percentage of cures of pa- ] tientS of the second category was 75 Der cent. and the proportion of eur in l the third category was 20 per cent. ! These results are considered highly ! sa atisfactury. and have made u decided
 impression on the lea ling physicians f
 Paris. and rsp- cially upon those who
 make q speciality of tuberculosis.
 Elaborate experiments have bee,
 made with guinea pigs ana rabbits to
 prove the exact quantities of formal
 dehyde transmitted to the tissue of the
 lungs by the application of the electric
 currents, and also to show how the in
 tvnsity of the transmission can be regu-
 lated. The method of treatment is
 simple. Tho patient is placed in an
 isolated chair of the static machine,
 and towels saturated with a solution
 of formaldehyde are applied to the
 chest and the back. The solution va
 r:es in strength from 1 to 10 Der cen:.
 according t0 the ds%r a of disease and
 according to the patients constituti. II
 and ,emL mLeramsnt. The machine is then started and a current wi h .fluVil OF
 with sparks, CT with both. is passed
 through the lungs. While this is going
 on the patient inhales the fOrmalde-
 hyde with electric effluYia obtained by