New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-12-18
THE THREAT OF TYPHOID.
HOW ANYBODY MAY CONTRACT Ir-How EVERY.
BODY MAY PREVENT IT-BUT NOBODY
SHOULD sUCCUMB TO IT UNDER HARM
LESS ANTIsEPTIC TREATMENT

SHOULD sUCCUMB TO 1T UNDER HARM
LESS ANTIsEPTIc TREATMENT.
Every one knows that typhoid fever. as well as
most If not all, other diseases is caused by germs
Nearly every one knows that typhoid fever may be
contracted at any time, in any one of several ways
but in ninety-nine out of one hundred cases 1t will
be through the agency of the drinking water or the
milk. simple precaution which will practically
insure immunity from the disease is to att
cally disnfect these articles of drink. There are
many disinfectaats, all potent to kill the detri-
mental microbes, but many of them are fully az
dangerous the diseases they are designed to cure
or prevent. There is. however one disinfectant
that does positively harm TO the patient while
II is sure death to all disease germs. Hundreds of
thousands of people, victims of malaria hay fever
or other forms Of germ infection, go to the noun
tains, or the seashore. or the woods to reap its
benefits hardly knowing what they seek. but con-
infectant. us
which yields thirty times its own volume of nascent
oxygen. and, used in the proportion OF ounce
yestige OF disease germs. II is not unpleasant to
The water supplies of this and many other cities
are under grave suspicious at present. Boiling kills
is dead water not Mt to use and likely to cause
serious stomach and intestinal troubles, besides
ing insipid TO the taste. Filterng drinking water
produces result pleasing to the eye but the mis-
chlevous little microbes can go through any known
filter. 1t is best to take chances. little Hydro
zone should be ADDED TO all drinking water milk.
equal claim 10 public gratitude when used in
Ing typhoid fever a. when employed as prevent
i've well known physician of this city; firm be-
lever In and extensive practitioner of antiseptic
treatment in such cases, has positively announced
his conviction that ANY physician, having the
means Of antiseptic treatment (peroxide of hydro
gem a: hand, who loses typhoid fever patient,
should be prosecuted for manslauGhter."
DR.. +. II. Wiggin, No. 81 West Thirty sixth-sJ..
in article published in The New-York Medical
Record states that he has used Hydrozone with
highly satisfactory results in the trea tment of
various diseases typhoid fever among them. and
says that IL is 1.-The most powerful nOn-poisonous
germiclde possess" perfectly harmless"
DR.. Robert c. kenner of Louisville, KY. In an
article published in The NewA Albany Medical Rec
ord" first enumeTates the various poisonous anti
septies formerly much employed, and then empha-
sizes the objections their use. and that we
have in Hydrozone the strongest antiseptic known
10 the medical profession.
Dr. NJ A Clark A. NJ. of Macon. Ga, an emil
nent specialist in such diseases typhoid fever in
a paper published In The Medical and Surgical
Reporter" OF Philadelphia. thoroughly endorses this
treatment and In part says
II give from twenty TO thirty minms of March
and's HydFozone, well diluted every two or three
hours until slight nausea Is produced. and then
every four six hours TIL convalescence Is estab
lshed. II this is attended to from the out
of the disease the sO-calied typhoid phenomena
low muttering delirium. subsultus tendinum pick
ing the bedclothes. and on, Will not occur
medical and Surgical Reporter.