The Washington herald., 1913-10-01

an atmosphere rich in active oxygen, has
been found to have so marked an effect
on persons suffering from anaemia. Z
how IL Is Made.
A technical word as to the gas and
its generator.
Terpezone is a definite chemical SUBJ
stance consisting OF minute particles or
aggregates of molecules of pinine ozonide
suspended in a large excess of air. The
PARTICLES are of a camphor-like nature
that is, they possess a high vapor ten
sion and become gaseous and invisible
without losing their chemical identity.
Terpezone is formed by internkning
gaseous oZone-made by oZonizIng drv
air-and dry pinine vapor, the latter
made by passing dry air over the surface
Of pure gaseous pinine.
generator is provided in which air,
preferably from an outside source. is first
dried by being passed through Jumps OF
fused calcium chloride. This air stream
is then divided into two parts. one OF
which passes over the surface of neutral
pinene and the other through an ozone-
generating device. The two air streams
are combined in a gas-mixing chamber
This generator IS operated by the ordl-
nary electric illuminating current.
Treatment of consumption and other
diseases by inhalations and gas genera
tors is not new. nor are efforts TO employ
ozone and oxygen. In fact, only the irrl-
tating effect of ozone has prevented its
general use its virtues as a germfcide
and vitalizer of the blood having been
long recognized. Similarly the value of
pinene as a nerve sedative and stimu-
liant of mucous membranes is well estab-
lished, and its therapeutic properties have
not been neglected. Terpezone, while
containing no free ozone, and being dis
tinct chemical entity, pinene oZonide,
seems to possess all the beneficial proper
ties of its constituent elements and none
of those that are harmful.
The practical medical use of Terpezone
can be more simply described, being
shown in medical records of work done.
Destroyer of Disease Germs.
One of the striking properties Of the
gas is its germicidaI efficiency. This has
been demonstrated by a series of bacte-
biological tests made by DR.. Albert G.
Bennett, instructor OF bacteriology. in
Bellevue Medica! College. He regards
Terpezone as one of the most complete
destroyers of disease germs. His tests
were simple and conclusive. Using broth
cultures of the germs of such diseases as
pneumonia, diphtheria, and typhoid, he
tNpOStu one SET 10 ltEp-LOHt a pch
jar for periods ranging from twenty-five
to ninety minutes, the other (controD sets
being kept apart. Both sets were then
incubated. In every case it was found
that the set exposed to TerpeZone showed
no grOwth-the disease germs had been
destroyed. The sets not exposed to Ter
pezone showed marked growth OF disease
germ coloniesThey were very much
alive. Even without the use of the hood
and exposed to the gas merely in a room
permeated with il, the air OF which DR..
Bennett breathed without the slightest
discomfort. disease germs were as effec-
lively destroyed. this being as true of the
germ of the deadly anthTas as well as Of
pathogenic germs of less persistent vi
tality.
Experiments GU BInrkwcIIs Island.
For the last eighteen months or more
experimental study of Terpezone as
therapeutic agent has been carried on in
the metropolitan Hospital on Blackwells
Island by DR.. Ephraim D. Klots, where
five of the generators have been used;
at Riverside Hospital by Dr. Bertram II.
Waters. chief OF tuberculosis clinics of
the Health Department and in private
clinics The machines have been used also
by several physicians in private practice.
The medical results obtained II is not
for a lay journal to Judge II may be
said here, however, that among many
others-3Os or 4oO-fifty-three victims OF
have been treated in the
Hospital, of whose cases
records have been kept. DR..
Klots. while unwilling to discuss his
for a lay newspaper and
preferring to await the appearance of a
paper dealing with Terpezone, which he
DIR. Waters was preparing for
the medical press, was induced to make
these general remarks:
Il will say that l believe most valu-
able therapeutic agent has been given
the world. The results that l have OBJ
tanned have been eminently satisfactory.
In anaemic patients the gas has built
the blood count to normal and above in
a short time. Any physician knows what
that means
I'm tuberculosis 1t has proved OF great
value In the earlier stages of the dis
ease we have succeeded in completely ar
resting its progress in a number of cases.
Even In. advanced cases the gas has
proved of inestimable benefit. as ii has
the patient of much of his suf-
fering.
II have found the new gas of value
in the treatment of other diseases, and
careful investigation has shown that it
has no deletertOuS enectS on any OF the
organs. including the kidneys. Where
there is plethora (over-fulness of blood
1 do not advise it,
Records of Fight Cases.
Dr. Waters, like the inventor. Mr..
Knox, has been interested mainly in the
effect of Terpezone on the blood, and
his studies have had to do largely with
this aspect of its application. In most
Of the cases treated by him he has noted
R rapid rise in the number of red blood
cells The number of these cells in n
person of normal health is about 5,O00.OO0
TO the cubic millimeter. Consumptives
nave many less. sometimes under 100000
and in the last stages under 100000. In
eight of the earlier cases observed by
DR.. Waters the count before treatment
-anged from 3,4SOOOO to $4,000. In every
Instance the use of TerpeZOne when regC-
arly administered caused a decided in
,rease Subioined is a condensed state
nent Of obServa tiOns:
''The first was a woman of twenty
our in the third stage of tuberculosis,
symptomatically for about A
ear before treatment; general condition
,oor: both lungs affected; little toxaemia:
;putum gave positive evidence Of tu-
,ercle bacilI Treatment was in this city
n a room with a north exposure opening
m a court and no direct sunlight Re-
iult in 90 days, disease arrested: red
ellis increa sed from 100000 to 5,552OOO;
,ain in weight from 81 to 105 l-2 pounds.
THE second was a woman Of twenty
our in the third stage of the disease,
suffering symptomatically for more than