Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-19 | Page 8 | New Treatment for Gas Asphyxiation

NEW TREATMENT FOR GAS ASPHYXIATION Chicago, Jan. 18. The first case of blood-infusion in a caso of gas asphyxiation, asphy-xiation, performed at the county hospital hos-pital here today, bore great promise of success tonight. Dr. Karl A. Meyer, who performed the operation on Gustave Mussell, who was brought to the hospital in a dying dy-ing condition, said that the patient continued to gain strength, although i two or three days must elapse before the experiment may be called con- elusive Dr. Meyer gave credit for 1 k . the discovery to Dr William H. Bur- J melster, coroner's physician of Chi- . cago, who conducted, exhaustive ex- j periments on animals. J