The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1903-01-23
FORMAL |. S NE'y USE.
Successful q ested III 4 Case
of Blood Pois oning.
DISCOVERY OF DIR. 9. o. BARRoWs


He saved Dying Woman bys IN
u jectinE = Solution or tho Antfseptfs
/ into Her veins-- there was an IN.
mediate improvements Tenn
y perature Masked 1OS.
What Is regarded by many physi4
clans as one Of the most importanf
medical discoveries of the day has
been made BY DR.. Charles g. Burrows,
a gynccolog gist, who is onesof the visit
ing physic clans to Bellevue hospital. n,
New ss Il ork, and has been connected
with that institution for sixteen years:
Revolutionizing the method Of treat
ing blood poison. DR.. Barrows pecifilcs
for such it may be- tends to rob that
disease Of its terrors and, some Ine en-
bei,s Of the medical fraternity belieye.
will prove most valuable iii other nj all
aides that usually have q fatal result.
says the New York Herald The one
patient whom DR.. Burrows has treated
hy his new method was at the point sof
death when he was called ID. Now she
is practically we'll sss sa
BY destroying the bacteria that ere
ate blood poisoning does DR.. Burrows
battle the disease To do this he es4
chews the use Of medicines and Sinjects
into the patients veins a weakened sos
luton Of what is known as for1nalin.
J This is 40 per cent solution OF for
maldehyde gas in water. This gas,
which is an oxidation OF methyl alco-
hol. has strong germicidal qualities, be
sg stronger than carbolic acid and
st.:hay shghtiy inferior 20 corrosive sub,
innate. fOrn,. ssp. it's solution in wa-
ter, is a powerful antiseptic and sis fre-
quently applied outwardly In surgery.
For years it has been used as a pre-
servative for food products s.
In his observation Of the many cases
of blood poisoning which came under
his notice DR.. Barrows arrived at the
conclusion it was absolutely necessary
to destroy the bacteria IL the disease
was to be fought successfully. In his
search for an agent by which the end
might be gained he thought OF for
malin. and q careful study convinced
him it might be employed eff1caciously.
with no harm to the patient.
He found his first opportunity OF put
ting his theory to the test in Bellevue
hospital. Alice Bentley. q negress,
twenty-six years old was To ken to the
institution on Christmas day suffering
from blood poisoning. She had fallen
downstairs il month before, injuring
herself severely. When she entered
the hospital, her temperature was 104.3
degrees and her pulse was l24. After
the birth Of baby she had a severe
chill, and her temperature was 1O5 de-
grees. She was transferred to the
genealogical ward aud her tempera-
ture increased to 1868 degrees. She
became worse daily, and when DR..
Barrows was called in. on Jan. 2. she
seemed to be at the point Of death. She
was semicomatose and was muttering
incoherently. Her respiration was rap
i'd and labored, her pulse ranged from
$50 to 100 and her temperature was
s10S degrees. Never had d person in
such a condition been known to re-
cover.
1t was reported to DR.. Barrows that
on Dec. 80 a small portion Of the pa
dents blood had been drawn from her
arm and that DR., Buxton, a bacteriol-
ogist connected with the Cornell Med
,ical college, had made a culture. which
showed the presence Of the virulent
bacteria of septicRmia. or streptococci.
She had blood poisoning in its most
virulent form: Into one of the large
veins of the right arm DR.. Barrows
tried to inject one liter OF formalin So
luton. of the strength OF one part of
formalin to 5000 parts Of water. but
the. woman's delirium and restlessness
made this difficult operation and a
small quantity OF the formalin was
lost. about 800 entimeters Of the so.s
tuition finding its way into the circula-
HOn. s8
The result was such as to make the
physicians marvel. The temperature
fell almost immed ediately. and the pulse
showed an instanta neons Improvement
This continued. and at 8 o'clock the
next morning. sixteen hours after the
Injection. the temp perature was 101 de-
grees instea ads Of 1Oss, and the pulse had
fallen from lG0 to lO4 But as the day
passed the temp ture rose to 1924
degrees ana then fell A gain until it was
only 95 The mex / day tile patient,
whose genera condit ION had improved.
had q relapse, and her temperature re-s
corded lob degrees
The day after the lection another