Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-31

Experiments made in tho last ~;
years by a Chicago physician are sal
to show that a cure for tuberculosis i
Its mild stages has been discovered
says a Chicago dispatch. The treat
ments consist of the introduction int,
the veins of the patients of antisepti
solutions in large quantities.
DR. Thomas Grant Allen. an instruc
tor in the Northwestern medical scboo
and formerly professor of chem.str,
at Armour institute, has been a clos,
collaboration of DR.. Wilfred G.. Fralick
OF New York, the first physician to us,
the method In this country. Some 1900
infusions have been made by Drs. Fra
lick and Allen, with highly satisfactory
results, and it is probable that an insti
tuition will 500 he established in Chi
cago for the treatment of tuberculosis
and other diseases by the new method
In telling Of his work DR.. Allen said
today:
THE Fralick intravenous infusion
method is an extension of the method
first used by B%accelli, of Italy. Bac.
celli and his Italian followers used
small quantities of such substances as
bichloride of mercury, %anti-pyrene, sill.
yer, nitrate, gelatine, ergot, choral,
q%uinine and oxygen. introducing these
indictments directly into the vascu.
lar system.
DR.. Fralick's methods differ from
Baccelli's, in that he uses large guam
titles of comparatively nonpoisonous
%antiseptics. He cuts down to the vein,
exposing it for a short distance. Then
the fluid is introduced by inserting
either a needle or a canula into the
vein and allowing it to run in by grav-
ity. A comparatively small vein, such
as the radial, is usually selected, and
the quantity infused varies from 6 to
20 ounces. The temperature of the
fluid is maintained at 10 degrees to
lis degrees Fahrenheit.
THE treatment has been remarkably
successful in the first stages of tuber-
culosis and very beneficial in advanced
stages of the disease. We hope that in
time it may be found possible to cure
the disease in any stage.
Other diseases have also been treat
ed by the intravenous method with
gratifying results. Recently a case
was reported from New York where a
DR.. Barrows was said to have cured a
case of septicaemia, or blood poison
ing, in Bellevue hospital, by a large
injection of formalin into the veins of
the patient, a negro woman. This was
nothing new to the medical profession.
DR.. Fralick treated nearly two years
ago several acute cases of s%epticaemia
by intravenous injections of antisep-
tics, with the result that all evidence
of infection disappeared after a single
infusion. Probably DR.. Barrows had
read of DR.. Fralick's work and applied
it successfully.
THE new method has been used in
cases of carcinoma, lupus and typhoid
fever as well as septicaemia and tuber-
uiColSs Last oulilhlcl uStu tHt
method or myself, for typhoid fever,
and was gratified at the result. On
the selection of the a%ntiseptic to be
used for injection, much depends, and
there is the greatest need of every
aseptic and antiseptic precaution in
giving the treatment. Filter paper,
for instance, can not be used in filter
ing the injection; the fluid must be
passed through a Pasteur filter.
-Four recent cases treated by me
are remarkable. In two of these the
patients were in the last stages of tu-
.berculosis and were not expected to
live more than a few weeks. The treat
ment ceased in July last, but both pa
tients, women. aged 26 and 46 years,
gained flesh; one, who was con-
to her bed is now out of bed, and
the other has left the institution in
which she was treated. In the other
two cases-a mar aged SO and a wo-