The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-02-15

om the New York American and Jour- lal.
 A5r. Charles Clifford Barrows of New York performed the test operation which resulted in giving to the world the cure for the most formidable danger attend ing the function of motherhood, and in aarning for him the title of "the pr. ,orenz of mothers
 Since then perhaps twenty successful esests of this new formalin treatment have been tried on rich and poor in New York and throughout the country.
 Dr. Barrows found himself confronted with a dying patient after he had ex- hausted every resource known to med- he. A sample drawn from the patients m showed her blood was thick with le baeeilli of blood poison known as streptococei. With the death rattle all ready sounding in the sinking woman's throat, Dr. Barrows determined 10 try beroic experimental it failed there was then nothing to regret. It was the pow erful antiseptie formalin, vruent po,s- ln. Dr. Barrows injected directly into tho patients arteries and in a few mo- mdnts a speeiment of the blood revealed thu astonishing fact that the swarming stfeptococei had been almost swept clear. A Miraculous Rescue From Death. The subject of the experiment was a negress, whose vitality had been lowered by many years of hard work as the cook in a large boarding house. and by a pre- ,ious premature birth Mrs. Alice Bent ey. who is twenty-six years old, is of hort statue and slight build, weighing carcely more than one hundred pounds ne had fallen and injured herself three nths before her little one should have been porn, with the result that the child was dead for three weeks before the birth took place So, at least believes the mother, and the physicians who att tended her think 1t probable.
 Mrs. Bentley gave birth to the child on Christmas morning at Bellevue hospital Blood poisoning had set in. Her tenn perature was 104 3-10 uegrees and her pulse correspondingly high. Local surgi- cal measures were employed to counter act the raVages of the disease and both temperature and pulse dropped for a few hours. In spite of these measures the temperature rose to 105, 106 and then to 107 degrees.
 Dr Barrows drew a small portion of blood from the woman's arm and a cul- ture was made in broth in a glass tube This was examined by Dr. Buxton q bacteriologist of Cornell Medical college He found that the culture was loaded with virulent bacteria of septicaemia, hieh are called streptoeoeei pyogenes. | the time the result of this examina- | oe was made known 10 Dr. Barrows. | patients tempera ture was JOS degrees | her pulse 1G0.
 ich a height of pulse and tempera- | } had always been regarded az fatal. |
  IS was believed to be ly5t. In the eyes all the physicians who were watching case the woman was dying. all, at st. save one
 IT. Barrows decided that he was justi- in resorting to extreme measures He ermined to try formalin, one of the st drastic of antiseptics. Into one of r. ye veins in her right arm he in- s 70 cubic centimetress of formalin,
 forty per cent solution of for
 le gas in water. At the time of
 'tion the woman was in a state
 etc cola pse. Her skin had taken |
 tshen gray of the dying negro ~& bled in the low muttering de-
 tt almost always immediately |
 leath in cases of septicaemia.
 was intermittent and only
 rceptib1e. <
 neous Action of the Injection.
 ect of the injection was instan-
 md seemingly magical The tenn
 had dropped 10 i0l degrees by | day, and there was a corre- drop in the pulse rate.
 'cember 27 there was a slight lapse
 patients condition. The tempera-
 ,se to 102, and on the next day it q le degree higher.
 n a blood culture was made, which
 led the fact that although the num-
 i steptoeocei was greatly reduced
 lvere still in evidence
 | ond injection of formalin in higher ion, 75O centimetres. was made Fee hours the temperature dropped 'rmal and pulse beats to S6 per min
 The next day an examination of |