Evening star., 1932-09-09
MEDICAL SOLUTION
J CURES LUNG ILLS
Results Of Experiments Told
Physical Therapy Session
by New Yorker.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 9-A meth
cd of treating chronic lung and bron
chial infections by the direct application
of medicinal solutions in the interior
Of the lungs was described here today
by DR.. M. Joseph Mandelbaum, New
York specialist
Addressing the eye, ear. nose and
throat section of the American Con-
gress of Physical Therapy. on "a new
method of broncho-clysis, DR.. Man
delbaum told how he had administered
such treatments by the use of small
specially devised rubber tubes.
The method, he said. was perfected
after 10 years Of experiments on hu-
mans. Earlier experiments, he said
were made on laboratory animals,
notably dogs.
Although he made no claim of OBJ
tanning so-called cures" Dr. Mandel-
baum declared the treatment has re-
iieved distressing coughs and other
symptoms" both in tubercular and
non-tubercular cases.
Promotion Of Health.
"It has been found effective in pro-
noting better health and has proven
practically inocuous in thousands of in
stances in which this method has been
used on human subjects" he said.
Describing the actual treatment, DR..
Mandelbaum said after the infection
has been located by X-ray the patient
is given local anesthesia and the tubes
Inserted through the mouth.
When the tubes reach the affected
area an antiseptic solution then is
forced in at the rate of 40 to so drops
minute.
1T is a perfectly painless process" :"
the specialist said, land because Of
the ability of the pulmonary system to
absorb watery matter rather pro-
longed contact of the solution with the
surface of the diseased areas is per-
mitted."
After the antiseptic has penetrated
the affected parts the accumulated toxic
products then are flushed out, he said
The number of injections necessary to
heal the infection is determined by
x-ray studies.
With respect to the danger of spread
ing the infection, DR.. Mandelbaum
said:
"A great many ill-founded deduc-
tions have been presented in the past
10 years relative to the dangers of
spreading the infection in individuals
suffering with an infected lung on,
one side and healthy lung on the
other.
Occurrences Held Rare.
Very rarely. and then only in the
active stages of pulmonary infection
with high fever chills, sweats and other
signs of Sepsis, are such complications
apt to happen. have repeatedly shown
both in animals and patients
that the mere aspiration Of infected
material from an infected lung into the
opposite lung, or into uninfected por-
tions Of the same infected lung, does
not in itself necessitate an expansion
Of the disease process"
He emphasized that only watery So
iutions should be used in the treat-l
ments, as some medicants have oc-
casionally been shown to produce seri-
Gus LESSONS of the lungs"
He said the extensive trial Of the
treatment was justified because Of its
simplicity and safety"
The use of tubes in the treatment OF
bronchial infections first was suggested
in 1855 by Marshall Hall, an English
anatomist, DR.. Mandelbaum said. In
that year solutions successfully were
injected by means of q primitive syringe.
DR.. Mandelbaunn was graduated from
the Albany Medical College In 1902. He
Is 81 years old and Is associated with
the clinic at Gouyerr1eur Hospital here.
Ions Aggravated Rheumatism.
Ions, which are electrically-c charged
particles, are LII the air. DR.. William
Bierman told the congress that their
number and size vary under different
climatic conditions.
Before thunderstorms, for example.
the number # positive ions increases.
This, rather than the associated condi-
ton of lower barometric pressure, has
been shown to be responsible, he said,
fer aggravation Of the pains Of rheuma-
ttsm and gout. In sunshine negatively
charged ions preponderate.
He described a machine developed by
Prof. Friedrich Dessauer OF Germany
which produces concentrations Of ions
IN air. Experiments, he indicated, show
promise of the value Of this machine In
the treatment of certain variety Of
high blood pressure, certain sinus In
fecticns and types Of asthma.