New-York tribune., 1901-12-23
NAY PREVENT MUCH DLSEA Sc.
DISCOVERY BY PROFESSOR NOVY. OF
MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY, EXPECTED
TO DO AWAY WITH INTESTI-
NAL DISORDERS
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Ann Arbor. Mich, Dec 22.-"Benzozone" is
the Name of laboratory discovery made by
Professor Frederick G.. Novy of the University
Of Michigan, which his colleagues and students
believe will revolutionize the world of sickness
and do away with all such diseases as AsiatiC
cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery and the like
which have their seat in the intestfnes. An alb
solute intestinal disinfectant and antiseptic is
the way the new found preparation is described
and its effects upon five students who submitted
to seven days experimentation have been truly
wonderful DR.. Novy is of the great bac-
terlologists in the country and last winter dur
ing the bubonic plague scare the Pacific
Coast he. with other eminent specialists, was
dispatched by the national government to in
vestigate and devise means with which to COM
bat the malady. Bacteriology and physiological
chemistry are his specialties and his students
are confident that he has at last discovered the
long sought but almost despaired Of prepara-
ton to nullffy the pOisOns that produce typhoid
and cholera.
Students and professors of the Michigan Med
ical School are eagerly awaiting the detailed re-
port which DR.. NOvy Will shortly issue upon his
experiments. Until then he is not allowing any
undue hopes to be raised of what his discovery
may be able to do. and he refuses to go into any
details as yet preferring to let his mere expert
ments stand for just what they really accom-
plish, and wait now until he tries his prepara-
tion on actual cases of typhoid and cholera
Five students offered themselves as subjects"
upon whom the experiments might be made
AFTER week of constant analysis. during which
they had nothing to eat and only sterilfzed milk
10 drink, the announcement is made unofficiaIIy
that success attended the trials and new
weapon is given man to combat disease
me- he,
named. is believed to be an absolute intestinal
antiseptic, which will not merely cure disease
but will also rid the system of the germs and
prevent diseases entirely.
If this discovery proves as successful in actual
practice as in the chemical la boratory no longer
Will dysentery be the most deadly enemy of
military camps. Now more soldiers die from
dLsentery in prolonged campaign than from
bullets, Asatic cholera and typhoid fever are
terror to all countries. and in large cities the
latter has been especially prevalent this last
year These three diseases produced by
filth in the first place. and they have been prac-
tically impossible to combat The patient
has died or covered depending on his strength
to resist the attack Professor Novy's discov-
cry reaches what the medical profession has be-
heved to be unattainabIe
An absolute intestinal dntiseptic that would
destroy the animal organisms in the intestines
producing the disease has long been hoped for.
yet generally considered impossible to secure.
Such preparation would purge the body of the
source of such diseases as have been named
and so render the person free from the cause
as well from the disease itself As stated in
a thesis on this subject OF absolute antiseptic.
DR.. DuJardin Beametz said:
Man in the physiological state necessarily
produces poisons more less viruent and the
condition Of health for him consists in the reg
ular and rapid elimination of these same poi
sons by the action of the body organs. kid
neys liver and intestines. Let something in
terrupt this regular action, let these organs
cease or become impaired in their functions. and
disease may result
DR. Novy's "benzozone" it is asserted, does
what the healthy system does. 1t prevents these
bodily posons from developing disease In time
of susceptibility to these diseases it is a sub
stitute for the bodily action and removes the
cause of disease When seen and asked for
statement as to what he hoped to accomplish by
his discovery, Professor NOvy declined TO COM
nit himself. He said: so far l have been eX-
permentng Experimental results are not TO
be spoken OF by experimenters outside of scien-
tifc periodicals. L have concluded my labora-
tory tests. but do not wish TO say what hope
their results will be-
Although professional ethics keeps Professor
Novy from celebrating on his discovery never
theless the enthusiasm among his students
shows better than words that the great dis
Covery is more than had been hoped for.
The five students looked worn and tagged after
their week of sterilized milk. but they stuck to
ii faithfully. None of them really the worse
for the trials and. far being liable 70 dis
ease is concerned. they are practically immune.
being completely free from the poisons that
usually are to be found in the body
The methods pursued by Professor Novy in
his work of experimentation were simple. To
the five students was fed nothing save the sterfl-
ized milk It's contents of animal organisms
were determine BILE. The micro organisms pro-
duced by the body were also determinable by
ANALYSIS But by Of the 'benzozone" there
was brought about total destruction of these
poisons. At each meal time the five students
went to the laboratory and had dose or pen
zozone" Then they took their portions OF ster-
Iized milk. Repeated chemical analyses were
made of the bodily refuse of these students and
the results were very fatter1ng. II benzozone
Is so efficient in ridding the healthy body of the
poisons with which IT is filled, 1t is the belief
that II will also serve in case of bodily break
down to carry off the organisms which. If left
N the body would produce Asiatic cholera, ty-
phoid fever, dysentery or other equally terrible
diseases.