The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-26
MAY CURE COLDS WHOLESALE
Experimenters With ChlOrin Gas Hope
 For Much From New Remedy


 The whole city of Rochester, N. l., is periodically dosed with iodine through its water system to prevent goiter. The similar possibility of disseminating chlorin gas throughout the air of the aters, churches and assembly halls, to cure colds, influenza, diphtheria, etc, when there is an epidemic, is noted by Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, health com missioner of Chicago. In the Weekly Bulletin of his department A great deal of publicity has been given recent ly to this use of chlorin gas mixed with air in the treatment of respiratory diseases. It was reported to have been used successfully on President and Mrs. Coolidge, the secretary of war, senators. congressman and thousands of other citizens; while boards of health, direc- tors of hospitals, and the medical fra ternity in general are displaying inter- est in the possibility of adopting it at clinics, hospitals and the private offices of physicians. We read: -
 "To Drs. Edward B. Vedder and Harold P. Sawyer of the medical corps of the United States army is credited the method evolved for eastt, safe use of chlorin as medicament in colds and other respiratory diseases where the disease producing germs are located on the lining membranes of the air pas SageS.
 The first convincing application of this remedial agency was made in the summer of 1922 in Camp Perry. An epidemic of severe colds struck the camp with many cases of acute bronchitis. The medical officers of the brigade fixed up a gas chamber and in it sprayed some chlerin gaS-air mixture. Fifty per sons at a time were treated in the room. All that was necessary was that they should breathe. Inside of 24 hours it was reported that their colds were cleared up"
 The results obtained and published by Vedder and Sawyer and other workers mentioned above, Dr. Bundesen tells us, are being determined in a number of public institutions, among those being the clinics at the government institu- tions at Washington, number of health department clinics in the larger cities of the country, and private agencies such as hospitals and individ- ual practitioners. The Chicago health department is experimenting simply to determine the Nalue OI lne treatment just as it does with other preventive measures" and it is not quite ready to give final definite answer as to the value of the administration of chlorin. Dr. Bundesen goes on:
 "The city of Chicago has the dis tinction of having one of the first com pletely and accurately equipped clorin breathing chambers in the country.
 At the Iroquois Memorial hospital, the department has established an OK perimental chlOrin room, where from 30 to 50 patients an hour can be treated for the private physicians who are invited to participate in these ex- periments. Not only is the chlorin ad- mitted to the room measured accurately, but to eliminate any possibility of dis comfort to the patients, or inaccuracy in administration, the air in this cham Der is being continuously analysed and it's chlorin concentration indicated by an electrical device to the doctor and chemist in charge of its operation.