The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-01-03
DIPHTHERIA.


j. J. Russell of 1923 Broadway, New
York, is now in this city calling upon
| physicians Mr. Russell was formerly
member of the Iowa House of Repre-
sentatives, having been raised in the
west although native of New York
state. He is a lawyer by profession
but for the past few years has spent
much of his time trying to impress
upon physicians and others the value
of a new discovery in medical thera-
peuties, which he claims will be of more
value to humanity, when known, than
all the other discoveries in medicine put
together.
In speaking upon the subject yester-
day, Mr. Russell said: "Dphtheria
suddenly carries off the young and
pneumonia, the middle-aged and the
old. l can conceive of no subject which
should be of more interest to parents
and others than the one, How to cure
and prevent diphtheria," for among all
the diseases which scourge humanity,
none is more dreaded than diphtheria.
Its stealthy approach, it's rapid prog
ress, the difficulty Of recognizing it with
certainty until too late for the employ
ment of any remedy its extremely
contagious nature, and the terror in
spired by the name itself-all combine
to render it the most terrible pestilence
of modern times"
This disease now" said Mr.. Russell,
need cause no more alarm than an
ordinary case of measles. Since DIR. p.
NJ Bracellns discovery of a proper way
to prepare and administer chlorine gas
we can truthfully say that there has
been a solution of the great problem of
microbc disease | have seen hun
dreds of cases Of diphtheria during the
past four years and l have seen cor
rected chlorine administered in those
cases and have never seen or known of
one to die of this disease, except one
case in the Kensington Avenue Con-
tagious Disease Hospital in Brooklyn,
New York where both chlorine and
anti-toxin had been employed. The
child got over the diphtehria but died
fifteen days later from cardiac failure.
1t might be an interesting fact to state
that in this hospital the Bracelin
chlorine gas was employed, under the
supervision of the New York Board of
Health in thirty-six test cases of true
diphtheria, bacteriologically proven to
be such, resulting in thirty-five com
plete recoveries; and strange to say
the only one to die was the one where
they used anti-toxin in addition to the
What I feel perfectly safe in say
ing" said Mr.. Russell, 'ls this: That
the chlorine, which is administered by
inhalation only, Is better than anti
toxin, is cheaper, Is more easily admin
istered and Is absolutely free from dan
ger. This corrected chlorine can be in
hailed as safely as the air we breathe,
and when so inhaled, will cure diph-
iberia and absolutely prevent it. 1t is
utterly impossible to give any one the
no matter how much ex-
posed, if he will but inhale this gas for
i've minutes three or four times per day
while exposed.
OR. Bracelin did not discover chlor-
ne, nor is he the first physician to use
t in diphtheria He did however, dis
,over a way to intelligently use it and
% deprive it of it's suffocating qualities
md caustic and irritating properties.
No other physician, living or dead, that
We have any record of has done this.
t took DR.. Bracelin ten years time de-
1oted to laboratory work to find what |
elements of nature, when combined |
With Labarrague's solution, would 50
Modify it as to permit it's safe inhala-
ion and without, at the same time, de-
irving it of it's germicidal powers.
The No. 1 is composed of arsenic
hloride, 80 parts; zinz chloride, 20
arts; hydrochloric acid, | part; water, |
8 parts. Solution No. is composed of
horinated soda, standardized to 26 per
ent. of available chlorine, 70 parts, and
he emollient corrective so parts. The
directive is composed of men
hol, camphor, eucalyptol and salicylate
f methyl (oil of winter-green) dis
olved in alcohol and water. These two
guilds are placed In 2 simple inhaler
ottle in the proportions of five to one.
When the two solutions unite the gas
r vapor is given off and when in
aled, as directed, cures diphtheria, the
ore throat of scarlet fever and liqui-
es the fibrinous exudate in pneu-
IONA, ana thereby promptly cures the
isease and absolutely prevents it.
ave found one physician here who has
case of diphtheria now on his hands
e is employing the Bracelin chlorine
nd the child will, no doubt, be well ;
side of the next forty-eight houl $.
he Bracelin Chlorine Bactericide is not
patent nor secret remedy. The for {
ula has been published in The Jour
Al of the American Medical Associa- |