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Proceedings of Royal Society of Edinburgh. [dec. 5, 
In tlie British Medical Journal for December 18, 1886, there is 
an article from the pen of Dr J. H. Bennet (of Paris) on Dr Bergeon’s i 
treatment of pulmonary phthisis by means of anal injections of two ' 
gases. Bergeon found that sulphuretted hydrogen and carbon I 
dioxide gases were absorbed by the intestines without any poisonous 
effects. He uses the natural “Eaux Bonnes” water from the 
Pyrenees as his source of pure sulphuretted hydrogen, — and by 
repeated anal injections of these gases has cured the worst cases of 
pulmonary phthisis and other pulmonary diseases (see Cowfptes 
Rendus, July 12, 1886, p. 176, and Bulletin de V Academic de 
Mededne.^ 2nd ser., vol. xvi.) ; and Dr MDaughlin (Physician of 
the Philadelphia Hospital) recently reports the cure of thirty 
Salicylic Acid Crystals, crystallised from Salicylic Acid Crystals, crystallised from 
alcohol. X 340. ether, x about 95. 
patients in the last stages of consumption, solely by using Bergeon’s 
method. Bergeon has found that sulphuretted hydrogen, prepared 
from any other source than Eaux Bonnes ” water or carbon 
disulphide, will prove a failure. He “ does not propose his method 
as a microbicide treatment, but merely as one that succeeds,” and 
that ‘‘the injection of sulphuretted hydrogen is decidedly antiseptic 
and curative of local lesions.” 
Therefore, Bergeon’s treatment of phthisis is by anal injection of 
several litres of the mixed gases into the intestines. There the 
gases are absorbed into the venous system, and pass out by the 
