Arizona republican., 1913-03-16
PHOENIX AHEAD
 IN USE OF CURE
For Long Time Tuberculosis Has Been Treated Here bv Method Claimed by Fl Paso Doctors to Be Quite New

The ideas of the ordinary person of what iS new and what is ancient in tratcd by recent notices of treatments Tor tuberculosis in the daily neWspa- pcrS The F'riedmann cure which IS De- ing hcralded as an entirely New" cure for tuberculosis. the American Medlcai &ssociation Journal recently shows to ne nothing more than an improvement over the old treatments. The treatment of tuberculosis by injection of lINlnS germs was used by Dr. Edward l.. Tru- dtau. the great American specialist many years ago. It was also adVo- catcd bv French teachers before the Germans took il up.
 The principle has been in practice for wears pr Webb of Colorado Springs has used the live germ treat ncut for years and the treatment was advocated by several specialists in the Washington. D. (. Congress of Huber cul0siS in 1910. pr. Friedmann has perfectcd the process of growing the Iivina. germs under such circumstances as rcnder them less harmful if not en- tircIv harmless. and when this is done, N work of generation and of hundreds of rescarchers-but he has not discoV- cred anything new. if the comments of the medical and scientific press are correct
 Another treatment heralded as new by ncwspapers. including one in Phoe- nix was used before the memory of most people in Phoenix. This treat ment consists of CompresSing the ds- caeed lung by means of injection of nitrogen gas This is what is called the Forlanini treatment and was used in the eighties by the Italian specialist o1 that name. For many wears he was the chief advocate of this method. In 1908. Dr. Murphy of Chicago began the treatment and used it extensively until he forsooll the general practice of medicine and confined his abilities to surgery alone.
 Drs Brauer and Lucius Spengler. ot Germany have been the chief workers with this method of treating tubercu- Iosis patients. writing extensive papers and even books on the method. It is sometimes called the Brauer treatment Contrary to the statement in the Phoe- nlN paper the treat lS l''N IltN in this country. nor is it new in the west. IL has been used for three years bz pr. RothschiId of san Francisco who reported d large series of cases al the Los Angeles session of the Ameri- can Medical Association in 1911.
 The treatment is not new to Phoeni2 physicians. It was used at St Luke Home. the Phoenix sanatarium. befor' il was employed in the institution il New Mexico mentioned in the local pa per Dr Watkins states that the, have used the treatment on all Suitabl cases since last October and now etn ploy it on about one fourth of all case admitted. II is also used bY outSid physicians of Phoenix, the gas bein made in the laboratory of St. Luke and delivered to the physician Whe desired. This morning the treatmen will be administered to two patient outside of the sanatarium. one at tn Sisters Hospital and one at the offic of local physician.
 In the beginning the treatment wa employed for checking severe hemorrh ages. but within the past two years it use in acute cases of tuberculosis an eases with large incurable cavitie have proven to be very amenable { the treatment and it is in these otl erwisc hopeless cases that the mo: startling results have been obtained.