The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1909-03-10
CARBONIC ACID sSNOW" is THE
ONLY KNOWN REMEDY FOR
THE DISEASE.

The gas that bubbles in a glass
of beer, that sparkles in numberless
carbonic waters, the same gas which,
unconfned, gathers in sluggish pools
in coal mines and chokes to death
the incautious miner, the vapor
known as carbonic diOXide or, more
popularity, as carbonic acid gas, hith-
erto unused except for commercial
purposes, has been found recently to
be one of the most remarkable cura-
tive agents known to medical science.
1t is the only known cure for a dis
ease hitherto deemed beyond rene
dy, malady whose cause, even, is
not known, but which resembles cry
sipelas and is cancers first cousin,
lupus erytheuratosus.
Lupus, as this disease commonly
is called, is a chronic malady Of the
skin. 1t appears on the cheeks gen
orally, spreading from one to the
other across the nose, forming an IT.
ACe3 pa I'LL VI iiilAlc anu Aio1l III
ing Inflammation. 1t comes without
warning, attacking men and women
apparently in perfect health, but
more frequently those whose blood
is thin and anemic. Hitherto moth
ing has been found to eradicate it.
About two years ago Dr.. w. A.
Pussy of Chicago, after many years
of experimenting, finally hit upon the
proper method of employing carbon
EoXide gas under high pressure as a
cure for lupus. This remedy has
been employed so successfully since
then that its efficiency as a cure of
lupus is established beyond the shad-
ow of a doubt. On account of it's
cheapness doctors are beginning to
use it more and more in their private
practice.
The carbon dioxide gas is impris-
oned under great pressure in steel
cylinders weighing a little more than
so pounds each. These are equipp-
ed at one end with an ordinary stop
cock. Over this, before the gas is
allowed to escape, is tied a little
pouch Of three thicknesses of chamois
skin Then the stop cock is turned
there is a Kissing as the gas rushes
out through the folds of the cham
OILS, and in two minutes the pouch is
full of what looks like snow.
Snow is what the doctors call it,
for lack of a better name, but it is
colder than any snow that ever
whitened the earth It's temperature
is 100 degrees Fahrenheit below re-
ro-as cold almost, as would be
the snow of the interstellar spaces.
Snow as cold as that burns the skin
like the touch of a red-hot iron.
This snow does not melt, but,
if allowed to remain long enough eX-
posed to the air disappears gradual
ly in vapor. 1t will retain it's
original form, however, for Is or 20
minutes without appreciate diminu-
ton. The physician scoops up this
snow in a metal cylinder half an
inch or so in diameter and three or
four inches long and packs it solidly
within by ramming it down. When
the cylinder contains enough for his
purpose he pushes out the white stick
of snow" from the cylinder, takes
1t up carefully in several folds of
channels, to protect his fingers, and
applies the end to the PATIENTS dis
eased skin. If but a small spot is
to be touched up" he whites down
the cylinder to a pencil point.
The time it takes to cure case
of lupus and the number of treat
ments necessary depends, of course,
on the progress the disease has made.
Generally from 10 days to two
weeks time is sufficient to cure the
worst cases. No after-treatment is
necessary, and it is not even essen
tial that the place that has been
touched with this burning snow
should be covered after the SNOW
has been applied.
Next to liquid air, with its tenn
perature of $50 degrees below zero
Fahrenheit, this carbon dfoxide
''snow" is the coolest substance
Known. Liquid air, it now has beer
bund, will accomplish practical,
the same results in skin diseases O
this sort but it is a hundred time
more expensive than the Snow"