The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-15
For11a1in" New Discovery
 Which Has Saved Lives Of
 Mothers at Visit of Stork

blood culture proved that all the trepto- cocci pyogenes had been destroyed
 For the succeeding two weeks the wo- mans pulse and temperature were nor mal. She was discharged as cured from Bellvue last week and is going about her household duties at her home, No. $50 West Thirty-ninth street, New York, ap parently as well as before her almost fa- tai illness, except for the cancellation which has naturally followed
 Greatest Discovery of This Generation. Dr. Barrows read a paper before the 1 New York Obstetrical society telling the story of this amazing experiment. At the conclusion of the reading Dr. Egbert Grandin, president of the society, said: Without further trial, and taking this case as it stands, l consider Dr. Barrows' discovery the most important contribu- tion to medical science of this genera tion."
 The news of his marvellous cure of septicaemia spread quickly among phy- sicians, and similar experiments quickly followed.
 Dr. William Francis nonan, attending surgeon of Hahnemann Hospital, WAS the first to follow Dr. Barraws treatment
 The day after the success of Dr. Bar rows experiment was made known, Dr. Honan telephoned Dr. Barrows to ask if he had been correctly Informed about the treatment He was informed that he had, and he at once set about applying it to case that the day before would have been pronounced hopeless.
 The patient was a white woman twen- ty-eight years old. The patient had given birth to a child several days before and when she was brought to tlfe Hahn- emann hospital she was critically i'll with septcaemia. Her temperature was 104 3-10 and her pulse 1iS.
 An examination of the blood proved the unmistaSable presence or streptoeoeci. After bis conference with Dr. BarroWs by telephone Dr. Hopan made he exper- iment of the formalln injection in the presence of several of the visiting sur geons of the hospital,
 He was assist ed by Dr. Roy Upham, the house surgeon of the Hanemann hos ptal
 Dr. Barrows' formula of one part form alin to 5000 parts of sterilzed water was closely followed. Dr. Honan however increased the injection to 700 cubic een- timetrcs because the case seemed to re- quire radical measures.
 A large vein in the right arm was opened, and into it the solution was drained by means of q fine tube. or pp- ette. The solution was allowed to drain, but slowly the operation consuming a half hour, because the surgeons feared the shock of a too rapid injection of so powerful a fluid.
 Thirty minutes afterward the patient was shaken by a severe chill. and this was succeeded by rise of temperature to 105. Fortunately the chill lasted but a few minutes. The operation took place at S3O By midnight the woman's temperature went down to 102h. Her pulse was 124 and respiration 36 The se- we're pains had almost disappeared. and there was every evidence of improve ment. As this paper goes to press she was fast recovering and the surgeons believed that she would soon be able to leave the hospital. The third case was a woman patient of Dr. Edward Watzfeder. at Gouverneaur hospital, New York, This woman is twen- ty-six years old. She was admitted on December 2s with ordinarN symptoms of sepsis (blood poisoning) She grew worse and recovery semed impossible The fluid injection benefited her some, but she re- lapsed, and week aga yesterday she was given another injection, A mistake was made here, and instead of making the solution one part of formain to 5000 parts of water, 1t was made at to 2500, and 1t
 
 aphasia, turned black in the face and the doctors thought sh. was dead, but they pulled her through, and she is now on the road to recovery. --
 The Severest Test Yet Made.
 The fourth, and so far, the most severe test that pr. Barrows' method has yet been put to is the case of a patient at St. Vincent hospital New York. The pa- tient is a woman about thirty-eight years old who has been suffering from double pneumana. A blod culture showed the bacteria of blood poisoning in large quan- titles, and formalin was injected into a vein in the arm, although no use of formalin had never been made in the case of a person suffering from pneumonia. The results were favorable
 Last Monday as Editor N. G. Gonzales lay dying in Columbia, S. C., of the pistol