The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-05-08
NEW OPERATIONS PROVE EFFECTIVE
 IN TUBERCULO OSIS

Washington, May S.-Two kinds of operations are proving effective in the treR tnent of tuberculosis, accord ing4to Drs Edward Archibald of Mon treaL who read paper on pulmonary surgery before the clinical section of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis here today.
 The first method explained by Dr.. Archibald aims to produce collapse of the affected lung through compres sfons effected By introducing into the chest cavity outside of the lung q certain amount Of nitrogen gas. By means of this scompression, the tuber- culosis lung, being set at rest and pre- vented from filling it's natural fune-sl ton, is. more readily healed than it ] could be under normal conditions
 The second method which he advo- cated was the removal of the ribs, or portions of them, that atm mospheric pressure may act upon the lung through theNsoft yielding structure of the thoracic muscles, Or that the ribs may be allowed to fall in upon the1 lung beneath and so exercise compres- sion In either case the movements of breathing. are abolished, and the lung is put out of function.
 E Of couse, he said, such operations were of value usually only in cases where one lung was affected, the other los that the German and French physi- cisns had reported good results in us ing the second method. Great care must be taken, however, he, added,
 in either method to treat only those cases where an x-ray examination and that good may result, since such. oper- ations are fraught with great danger.''
 In paper entitled -sSubsequent Re port of Patients Who Received Injec- tions of F'riedmann Vaccine a Year Ago" pr. George Manufacturer of New F'riedmann vaccine had exhibited neither curative nor preventative powers,'' and that it could not there fore be reconimended
 s'In March, 1913." said pr. Mann heimer, eighteen patients were treat ed under my supervision. Of these fifteen can be followed up, and of that number three are dead. The mum Der of injections in these cases were one, two, and four respectively Of the remaining twelve patients, ten re- ceived one, and two received four in :. jections. Five of the ten patients who. received one injection developed ab- scesses at the site of the injection and were therefore unsuitable for further injections, according to the inventor. The other five patients were not re-. infected, either because they did not see IH6 improvement they naO been led to expect, Or because they had be come worse and had lost confidence in F'riedmann. As to their present con dition, five of them are now unchanged and five are worse than a. year ago.
 One patient. who had four injec-. tions, feels we'll and presents signs of an arrested lung process, but he has not gained in weight and has devel- oped new tubercular process in an other part of the body. The second patient with four injections has tu-. decidedly worse than before. The in filtrate of the fourth injection broke. down and discharged pus.
 Where abscesses resulted at the site of the first injection the vaccine apparently produced, no additional harmful effect. The disease remains uninhuenced. Friedmann neglected to prevent scess-fornation, although lie claimed to know how. To be very charitable, one might judge from one. singes case, that decided natural heal ing tendencies, aided by common sense treatment, will not be hindered by the Isremedy.
 When in a quiescent case, the first subjective and objective symptoms of a new outbreak appear and2one wishes to check it, the remedy is absolutely worthless for that purpose. It can not prevent the tendency to spread, if a case is so disposed. The method of it's administration has been any thing but careful and intelligent. For. these reasons, and on account of the absence of curative and preventative powers in this series, it cannot be rec ommended.'
 Sentence was postponed until next