Arizona republican., 1902-05-16
A NEW WARFARE
 ON WHITE DEATH
Doctors of Phoenix Witness
 the FraIiCk Treatment
The New Germ Destroying Fluid Sent Through the Veins and Arteries of Three Tut erculosis Patients at the Sisters Hospital

All the physicians from the city and many from abroad were gathered at the Sisters hospital yesterday after neon at three o'clock to witness what to them was most interesting eXperi- ment. To pr. Wilfred G. Fralick of New York. at whose instance they had leone together, it was more than an eX- rc:'iment. it was the welding of a cer- tain and effective weapon against the dreaded White Death. It was the application of the now famous Fralick system for the treatment of tubercu- l losis. As has been before printed in the Republican it is new less than q year since Dr. Fralick entered upon tho experiments cut of which his powerful! .-nd mysterious Gerlnicidc has grow q, and it is hardly more than six months since the world was made aware of the result Of the experiments. The treat meHt has been applied in only three places in the world: the Metropolitan hospital New York. the Memorial hos pital. BrcChlyn. and yesterday at tht, Sisters hospital, Phoenix.
 The following physicians of the city were present: Drs. Plath. Slusher, Dameron, Hughes. Mcintyre, Foss, Thomas. Bell. Hawley. Ward. Martin. Stroud. Palmer. Dufficld. Craig, Phelps, Dodswcrth. Yount and Mrs. w. c. Rob bins of Phoenix: Dr. H. w. Fenner of 1 TucsCH. Dr. Drare of Mesa, pr. FCutz and q half dcZen other physicians from various parts of the country.
 There were three subjects and it had been announced that the application of the treatment would he begun at three ! C. lock. Considerable time was spent !
 most part of the disinfection of the surroundings. When the operation be- gan. q little before four o'clock there could not have been q live germ in the i cpcr2 ting room. The table, every ban dage, sheet towel, and even the outer garments of Dr. Fralick and his as sistants had been subjected to the dis i injecting process. All the operators had bathed their hands in disinfectants until the very pores were empty. Their heads were bound with white disinfect- cd towels that no drop of poison might fall from their hair. Their loose and belted operating robes were white and GermIess.
 The first subject was Judge Henson i Kennedy of Carlisle, Ky. He had been prepared for the application of the treatment in another room. The upper side of the left wrist had been shaved i with raZur. He Was brought into the operating room where the visiting phy
 sicians had assembled and was placed upon the table, A bit of cocaine was injected into the wrist to prevent pain He finched slightly at the entrance oi the needle. when Dr. Fralick assured him that no part of the operation ought to he more painful than that had been
 The doctor then asked the spectators ! to subject him to an inquisition re- garding the treatment. IL was so new that at first no questions suggested themselves. The doctor explained the deadliness to bacteria of the fluid he was about to infuse and its friendlness to blood and tissue. It was strong enough. he said. to destroy even an thraX. the most resisting of all forms of bacteria. His assistant. Dr. ThCm- as Grant Allen CT Chicago produced 2
 bottle co1taining sixteen ounces oi
 fluid, dear except for a slight bluist
 tinge and slight odor of chlorine.
 Dr. Fralick had made an incisior
 lifted q vein and ligated thC lower end of it with thread of catgu,
 tied SC tight that it damned up tho
 blood c1 it's way to the heart. He stated that the fluid was of tempera-
 ture of 115 degrees. though he knew ot
 no reason why a temperature of 9S de
 grees would not serve the purpose jus
 as well. But the books suggest II.
 degrees. He said though. it was moi
 necessary to take extraordinary pre-.
 caution against letting air into the vein
 though the books say that even .
 slight bubble of air might be fatal. H(
 had once poured as many as thirty-si2
 cubic inches of air into a vein without
 a disastrous result.
 A very small incision was made il
 the upper part of the ligated vein, z