1887.] Dr A. B. Griffiths on Micro-Organisms. 63 
municated an account of his experience of the Bergeon treatment 
to the British Medical Journal. He there stated that the results, 
both in his hospital and in his private practice, were not merely 
remarkable, hut astonishing. In the same number of the British 
Medical Journal^ however, a physician of one of the London 
hospital says that not only negative results, or hut very imperfect 
results, were obtained from experiments in the hospital he repre- 
sents. But this scarcely surprised me after the failure at the 
Western Infirmary (Glasgow). Most likely Eaux Bonnes natural 
mineral water was used. I found it quite inefficient. Again, in 
the same journal, another communication gives, as a formula from 
which excellent results had been obtained, the following : — a satu- 
rated solution (aqueous) of washed sulphuretted hydrogen ; J to 2 oz. 
being added to 12 oz. of pure water in the bottle through which 
the stream of carbon acid gas is passed.” 
It will he gathered from the experiments of Mr Snodgrass and 
those of my own — 
1. That inhalation of iodine vapour has the property of cleansing 
the lungs, &c., of bacilli, debris, and Freund’s cellulose. 
2. That both the salicylic acid injection method, and Dr Ber- 
geon’s treatment, are capable of preventing the growth and mul- 
tiplication of Bacillus tuhercidosis. So much so, that Mr Snod- 
grass was comparatively free from the phthisical complaint for two 
months ; although the disease is of longstanding^ and there are 
little hopes of a permanent cure. 
3. That Bergeon’s process has a tendency to greatly increase the 
formation of uric acid in the urine. 
4. That salicylic acid injections lessen the abnormal formation of 
uric acid in the urine. 
5. That in severe cases of phthisis, it is difficult for the whole of 
the gases (in Bergeon’s treatment) to be absorbed by the intestines, 
— the unabsorbed gases causing an ulcerated state of the intestines. 
6. That salicylic acid injections have the power of completely 
curing muscular rheumatism of the kind which often accompanies 
phthisis. 
