Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1896 — CURE FOR PHTHISIS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CURE FOR PHTHISIS.

“ASEPTOLIN” SAID TO BE A .CERTAIN REMEDY. r A*. IC4*oii Discover* a Beneficent Form of Carbolic Acid-It Kills Germs, tout Does Not Harm the Human Tis* -nwea. . - -to Sacooragiag Number pf Recoveries. , Jftr... OA r ut_^twn a ex-conim7ssionerof health for the city and county of New | York, announces that he has discovered s remedy for consumption. Already, he declares, many victims of the dread dwvmo have been cu rod' "by ft. In the last issue of the Medical Record, under the caption “A Rational Treatment for PhthisisPuhnonalis, Together With Some Notes on a New Remedial SoluI tton,” the doctor gives a description of his discovery. The name of the new remedy is “Aseptolin.” It is a beneftcient Corm of the ordinarily dangerous carbolic «.-id and is injected under' the skin, by .which operation it finds its way into the blood and to the seat of disease. Upon authority of Prof. Henry A. Mott, asepkolinls composed as follows: (Water .97.2411 per cent Phenol . 2.7401 percent. flMocaipiu-phenyi-hydrox- , ide .... . O.lSSpercent 1 In order to understand Dr. Edson’s discovery it is necessary to remember that Pasteur and Koch discovered and established the fact that germ diseases had as their ultimate cause the presence in the body of minute organisms, called germs, . «nicnobc« -aud tlie like. It was not long before these germs were cultivated, as it Having these cultivated colonies, scientific men made many experiments. They (found disinfectants would kill tiicse girms. They found, for example, that if a mixture of one part .phenol dr carbolic acid to three-thousand i>arts of water were floated over<a’ colony of and left

there far twenty-four hours all' these gp-rtns died. It naturally occurred to (them that if carbolic acid would kill germs -•utslde the body it would kill them inside. •nd the conclusion that if they could kill •II the genus in the body they could destroy the cause of the disease and thus wure the latter was apparent. The ex*eritueat was promptly tried. The result iwas some of those in whom these injections were put developed abscesses at the point of injection. .Far more, however, •Kero poisoned by the acid and the idea Jiad to be given up. It was too fascinating, though. Declat of Paris made a Wiixture of one part of the acid to one kmttdredof water and. putting in a little •ait, continued the injections, getting from tbe*n a larger percentage of cures. Aseptolin Is Produced. Dr. Edson had his attentioif directed this subject in the eariy part of 1895. •nd after a long and tedious experiment produced a fluid which he called aseptoEn. It is perfectly colorless, looks like crystal. and ahiells strongly of carbolic acid. •It contains 2.75 j #er cent of carbolic acid, •nd to every ounce of it there is added euejuuidredth of a grain of a new salt discovered by Ur. Edson during his work a salt ealied piioearpin.-piienyl-hydrox-toe.. The aseptolin is injected under .the •kin and tbus direvtly intothe blood. The dose is 100 minims, or drops, injected with • hypodermic syringe once in twentydour hours. Now, what happens after the injection? If rhe Total amount of blood in the person be remembered.it will be seen that • fter the injection the blood becomes a liquid, having one part of carbolic acid to from 1,200 to 1.500 parts of blood. In •they words, it is a liquid from 2 to 2 1 -, times as strong with the acid as was the •no -to 3.000 solution which killed the cultivated germs. The circulation of the * i<hhl ?UP lips carbolic Mh-tfeh Jto •very part of the body many times in an tour. Wherever there is disease and the germs which cause it that spot is being continually washed with this carbolic solution, in which no germ can live more •han five hours. Tuberculosis—consumption—ls a germ disease, being caused by what are called tubercle flbcilti. Dr. Edson discovered aseptolin In September, 1805. “To date, according to the doctor’s statement. 217 persons having consumption have been treated- with it. Of these, four showed no improvement, •nd of the four one died. The rest, 213. •bowed improvement. Of these, twenty-', •three have been discharged cured, sixty•even will, in the opinion of the physlwiana haring the cases, be discharged •cured, making ninety in all. In ninetygne cases the patients have been under ■vestment lor too short a time to enable ftbe attending physicians to snv invthing t “The patients are better.’” In ' Mh’rty two cases the improvement was >Hly temporary, but this record moans •sbont 40 per cent of cures, and these cases •are been those of patients with the disJease in all stages. ( - * I As the result of Secretary Chamberwin’s representations, Messrs. Philips, Crrar and Fitzpatrick and Col. Rhodes re been released on bail at Johannesburg by the Transvaal authorities. ft is stated that a movement is under w»y by large stockholders in the United States wall paper trust <o dissolve that corporation because of its failure to pan ■ay dividends since last April on $8,000,•00 of preferred stock. ■ The total- amount received and for•warded to Turkey for relief .work thus hr Frank ILWiggin, assistant treas- ' hirer of the American board, is After haring been aground off Fire ’Hand for nearly a week the Wilson Line Meaner Otranto has been floated.

DR. CYRUS EDSON.