The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 6, 1899, Page 28

THE SUNDAY CALL « CURING CANCER BY REMARKABLE SURGICAL EXPERIMENTS BY DR A, CAMPBELL WHITE OF VANDERBILT CLINIC, ~COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, IN WHICH LIQUID AR HAS SUPERSEDED X-RAYS AS THE NEWEST MARVEL. HOW [T 1S APPLIED AND REASONS WHY T EFFECTS SUCH WONDERFUL CURES,. »f this spray, al- a swab made The Wh use AY' YO the atr. {\! rable when we { . such as a wart.” cular case of cancer the n treated only once, but X ¥ it 1t ts ¢ 1id that her face felt better and « tr 1 he I marked im- c T 3 tt of the can- t [ thy « 1 ue treatment for the s i 1 Ity i the cancer was s g the ! hen I not painful t 1 i £ d that while the } s b & flesh zen not frost bit- 1 Neur 1 sciat has i , ten 1at it would recover its for- t 1 ¢ mer state. Only wet cold causes frost g vict - is absolutely i | 7 > sriment 1 - = K was t1 5 > iz it in r i e & piece : ‘ N with- s gt »w of blood. 2 i 5 s stab- - 2 d its former making careful un this power- » 1 quid air. He - ; conciusion- that the : S Eeenieeils erms of the va- Althou ees of heat destro; wn antiseptic, h a tempera- all in the N Wth Hospital liquid air, 312 not injure the thrax and 1l of these e liquid the air in the bacilli m the ef- £ tyj ria. He not « submit direct i them In every c sinated when removed f f the intense cold. Dr. Huddles 4 liquid air on cine virus found that it affected by t exposures no than the ck has common ube vz was hore 1t ds of t like cucumbe wheat, E I will ge ate almost as C g ibmitted to ¥ d 0. Lord . in discu n of life ed that the on this planet, « ! first seeds may have been brought here s a of interstellar s ri r i though he didn’t ¥ I like a hot. how th could find their it T s I B into the meteor in the first pla; T s - said Dr. If, then, liquid air is not a g BRIDGE ACROSS RIVER. SU JSPENSION NIAGARA The above photograph shows most clearly the recently constructed bridge over the Niagara River, which was opened on July 21, 1899, and is but another Umr of the remarkable skill of American engineers. The bridge forms a link it-line electric road service about the Niagara gorge. The cable span is suspended span, 800 feet ; width, 25 feet ; height above water, 65 feet. 1040 feet: FREEZING WITH LIQUID AlR - - CBPYRIGKTED 99" JOSEPH HADAMS NY- N where does it g%t its c ous and won- derful curative properties? “You must remember,” explains Dr. White, “that liquid air is over 400 de- grees colder than the human nody. By no other means than its apr could we produce so sudden ana treme a shock to a certain part of the without injury to the tissues. it s only a moment to produce 10 the most extreme ‘nld and but a llltlo more than that time for the part to re- gain its tempe; thas very great locs ilation blood ve last degree, voluntary fibers and the are made to contract to the FRAN & @‘U DON'T know what can have made us all take Frank Pilsbury for a fool, but I am sure we did so judge him. Some of them, if 1 were to name them here, might arise in their indignation and effrontery and deny that they were ever mistaken about Pilsbur mental caliber, but it would be tne height of in- for me, I free- ity on their part. As sinc Iy confess that I thought him an extreme- Iy simple youth until these things I And for o am going to tell. wh » took him se of several pened which T 1 do not know fool. unless it L outward Indications which we abserved, to wit: He parted his hair in the middie and brushed it smooth on his forehead, which was not high He wore kid gloves all through the sum- mer. He would talk earnestly an hour at a time, giving about how to trim a hat. But that is the worst of these dudes; you never know quite for certain whetner they are fools clear through or only on the surface. This mistake of ours was set right about the close of the war with Spain, or a lit- tle before its close. And It happened as tollows: Late in-the spring of 1898 Jeannette Brennan was showing signals of distress and she let it be understood that the cause of her distress was Frank Pilsbury. It appeared that he was making love to her, chiefly by giving her a great deal of his soclety—with advice on millinery mat- ters—and also by presenting her with flowers, but not artificial millinery flow- ers, but real ones. All this bored Jean- nette, and, as Jeannette was a good sort of girl we boys said that It ought to be put a stop to. Besides, Jeannette was by public opinion assigned to be the fate of one Robinson, who was not at all a fool. like Pllsbury, and was a general favorite. About this time It was reported that Letitia Helmund had at last yielded to the persistency of Fred Stimms’ wooing and had allowed him to call it an engagement. Then a number of the boys enlisted for the war, Fred among them, Frank Pils- bury not. Everybody slapped Fred on the back and called him a good gellow. Everybody felt sorry for Letitia Helmund, because Fred had gone to Tampa and was being eaten by mosquitoes, and everybody felt sorry for Jeanette because Frank would not expose his perfect complexion to the ravages of these spiteful insects. Latitia Helmund was present one day with a girl for her poinés only to dilate forcibly on the removal of th Spr: Cold also retards the activity of bacteria and th with the stimulation of the ordinary curative agencies of the body, brings about a cure In other words, liquid air is a great helper to nature, allowing nature to do he: »wn work in her own way. Dr. White thinks that medicine is just on the borders of a vast field of usefulness for liquid air. He thinks it d in the pulmonary diseases, of fever and so on, may be u in the reduction although the subject has as yet received He inti- comparatively little attention. mates that in the near future a place will be arranged, probably in some hos- pital or clinic, with all the facilities for making and administering liquid air— a liquid air hospital, so that physicians can take their patients to it as they would to a private hospital and con- veniently apply the treatment. Two other physicians have been mak- ing somewhat extensive. experiments with liquid air supplied by Mr. Tripler. One of them, Dr. J. William Giles of Y., recently performed an operation for cancer in which he cam- pletely froze away the cancerous tissue with most encouraging results. BY ebody said, n't we make ury go off to the war? Can't opinion to bear on him?” thinking. no doubt, of and being eaten at mpa. Then she said, in her gentle, mu- sical way. “If everybody wants poor nk Pilsbury out of the way, why not t him to go to Tampa?” ‘Do you think he could be persuaded to go that far?” “T think he might Why was it that nobods & Frank Pilsbury was, ire of dames among us. s simply to go off herself to Tampa so as to be near poor, heroic Fred, when sc Frank Pils we bring public Letitia sighed poor Fred broiling id Letitia. had thought of by emi- Le- and to make Frank go with her as escort. Jeannette thanked her with tears of grati- tude. Everybody called the plan an in- spiration of genius and also a huge joke. The idea of making pretty Frank go to that abominable- den of mosquitoes and hold a sunshade over Letitia’s head so that Fred might make love to her in peace between drills! And Frank consented like a lamb. And the two started together amid the cheers, and alsa the jeers, of all the girls and of all the boys who had not gone to the front before them. The next we heard of those three was by letter. First from Letitia to Jeannette, like this: “Frank Pllsbury has proved a devoted and useful escort. I don’t know what I should have done without him. Fred Jaughs at him and wonders what he does with Limself down here, but I tell Fred that if it had not been for ‘my little dude,’ as he calls him, I could not be here. And it is a great thing to be near one's soldier boy, isn’t it? So I have much to thank ‘my little dude’ for.” Then from Fred Stimms: “Letitia is up at the hotel, and I see her about every day. Frank Pilsbury is all right. He Keeps out of the way when Letitia and 1 are together, which is what he’s here for, I guess. We call him the chaperon. I don’t know how he puts in his time, except it's loafing on the hotel veranda and about the Cuban settlement. They say he talks Spanish like a daso.” Just Defore .the transports started for Cuba—the second week in June—who should turn up at home but Letitia! Everybody said she had done right not to stay till the very last. The parting would have been too severe a trial for ner nerves. She did not bring back Frank Pllsbury with her. She seemed to have mislaid him somewhere and could not teil where he had got to. About the end of July the news from Z was becoming very exciting—the n the papers. Privately the follow- ame from the United States camp antiago. It was dated “Daignon, It was a letter to a mutual Stimms and myself. This is a “Dear Con: I am not well. of us in camp here are .n It isn’t the miss of my reg- the shock A lot of Garcia's soldlers met us on the beach when we landed. They were cheering for ‘los Americanos.’ One of them, in a big straw hat and a friend of true copy: A good many the same fix. ular neeals that hurts me, it I have had little less ragged shirt and trousers than the otke: with a revolver me forw: and »ok hands Then he said, ‘How is Letitia aw that it was Frank Pilsbury i oft from Tampa three weeks ago with some sort of dispatches for the ans and they say he landed at Ma- s and made his way rl{.,ht across and. I couldn’t believe it, but Gar- photographs that he took on_the wa; Frankie one of those little dinky ‘Slap-bang’ cameras with him. The ubans _are afraid of him and think he the President’s eldest son. The Span- ards took him for an English tourist. Now they are going to fit him out with decent clothes and send him to Washing- ton. How he did it all 1 don’'t know. I suppose it was his S h and getting so chummy with all those stiff dudes up at the hotel. I can’t write any more. The shock seems to have given me a chill. 1 believe we shall be fighting to-morrow, Hope I may get Killed. Yours, Fred Stim: This letter set us all in a_ferment of excitement. Everybody went and asked Letitia for information. Everybody felt that there must be more mystery behind this. Letitia smiled and said she had lost sight of Frank during the latter part of her stay at Tampa. She supposed the Government must have sent him on some special mission to Cuba, because he had traveled there thought of and knew the country a little. 1 think we all felt somewhat annoyed. Jeanette unaccountably got downright angry and began treating Robinson, who had been obliged to stay at home on ac- count of his mother and sister, very un- kindly. Poor Fred had one consolation, and that and a big cia ha was that Frank was not at Santiago on in fact, started home with his mysterious dispatches several days before that. Fred's friends also had the consolation that Fred, in spite of his own gloomy ambitions. came out of all that fighting without a scratch, though he did go to grass later on with a severe at- tack of fever. By the Fourth of July Frank came home a little browner and less plump than be- fore. it is true, but with his hair still before the war was ever. TMIING NEGRESS CURED OF ERYSIPELAS BY AN APPLICATION OF LIQUID AIR. “The results of my cancer treate ments,” he said, “are full of promise. It is undoubtedly a fact that the applica- tion of liquid air will relieve the agoniz- ing pain of a cancer. This has been proven beyond a doubt. Its use will in many cases retard the advance of the disease, and I am confident that in cer- tain forms of cancer it is curative. Itis quite remarkable that up to this time the use of liquid air has not been fol- lowed by any bad results.” Dr. G. Fish Clark of Brooklyn be- lieves that for the extirpation of ma- lignant growths of all kinds liquid air will eventually supersede the knife. K PILSBURY'S COUNTERFEIT. # ALBERT R. COLLIER. smooth and parted plumb in the middle. When we asked him to tell us about his mysterious g n, he said he was sick and tired of the Cubans, he said, w y hen he wandered off ssion of the metropolitan fash- thing he did was to rent a small house. Then the local papers statement printed an au- the marriage of itia Helmund thorized of at d day of May, iS5, with full particulars. When somebody asked him what he by breaking the heart of Jeanette nswered: “Her heart is not r hie broken. As son. That was a ruse, you know. Public opinion was against my marriage with Letitia, 50 we had to elude public opinion. Ask Letit Letitia, n aid: “T never to say we give it out, to contradict and it was not my bus M as Yes, the red came home an invalid long before other soldier boys. or three weeks ve all conspired to keep the news from him, so that the shock might not kill hi When he heard the whole truth he .‘ack"k up and went to the Pacific coast.