Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-11-15
KOCH'S REMEDY.
The Much-Talked-of Cure for
Consumption.
CLAIMS MADE BY THE DssoovERER

Insinuating BacciIIi Is stu on Deck
and Ready for Business at a New Stand
The Doctor Tells How to Administer
the Lymph and Explains Its Eject
When Injected-Oniy Certain in the
Maisdy's Incipiency.
BERLIN, Nov. 15-Dr Koch, the Ger
man professor who has discovered a rem
dy for consumption by incubation writes
as follows to the Deutsche Medinizische-
Wochenschrift German Medical Weekly:
DIR. Koch says that he is as yet unpre-
pared to indicate the source from which
the curative matter is derived Neither
is he ready to explain the method of pre-
paratiOn. The reason he gives is that the
experimental work has not yet been
brought to completion. He states. how
ever, that the curative lymph itself can
now be obtained from DR.. Libbertz. whose
address is p Lueneberger strasse, Berlin.
The lymph Is described as consisting of a
brownish transparent liquid. 1t is so pre-
pared as to he proof against deteriora ton.
When, however, ieis diluted with water
to the necessary degree for use the mat
ter is liable to decay
Must ie Perfectly Sterilized.
IL is necessary, therefore, that the atten-
uations should be perfectly sterilized by
heat and preserved in wadding covering,
or prepared with solution of phenol, so
per centage strong. When taken into the
stomach the curative matter proves to
have no effect. II must be applied sub
cutaneously by means of a valveless syr-
Il @ nd nf nj 1ol l.,
Professor Koch is one furnished with a
small hollow rubber bali. This syringe
acproved itself to him during his bacte-
biological experiments. It's merit is that
II can be easily and surely rinsed with
absolute alcohol and kept in a perfectly
aseptic condition. In thousands of cases.
ne says, where 1t has been used for sub.
! cutaneous injections, not a single abscess
| resulted. The lymph is usually injected
near the loins
Effects of the Injection.
Human being are more suscep-
tible to its influence than Guinea
pigs Two cube centimetres of
the substance affected Guinea
| pig but slightly. while twenty ffvs-one-
thousandths of y cubic centimetre pro-
duced marked effect upon IA healthy
man. The lowest limit of effective
centimetre. This quantity in n healthy
body produces but n slight reaction or
none at all. This is also true of its appli-
cntlon TO persons suffering from other
| than tuberculosis affections But with
tuberculous subjects it produces gen
| eral and local reaction; the general re-
action consisting of u febrile attack, the
| temperature rising to 80 or IL centigrade,
| with coughing, irritation, exhaustion
| sometimes nausea and vOmiting; and
there Is sometimes an eruption resembling
| that of measles on the chest and neck.
The Reaction in Lupus.
! The attack begins four or five hours
| after the injection, and lasts twelve or
| fifteen hours Afterward the patient
feels better than before the injection. The
local react on is best observed in cases of
| lupus. Within few hours after the in
| lection the lupus sores swell and redden
| This effect increases during the period of
fever until the lupus tissue assumes a
dark brown tint and necrotic condition.
After the fever departs. the swelling de-
creases, and possibly vanishes. In two or
three days the lupus centres become
covered with scabs, which fall off in two
or three weeks. The local reaction in the
lungs it is impossible TO observe, apart
| from increased eXpectorati0n and cough.
| The symptoms described always follow
in tuberculous patients when hundredth
/ part OF "A cubic centimetre il in iected
| This treatment, therefore, will afford au
| Indispensable auxiliary to diagnosis
Will Cure Incipient Consumption.
Professor Koch believes that the RENE.
| dy will cure incipient consumption.
| Whether the cure will be final is as vet
not fully proved The remedy does not
| kill baccili, but tubercular tissue. IL
does not affect dead tissue, but only liy-
| ing. Therefore, the tuberculous tissue
/ killed by the remedy must be removed.
| Every effort must lie made to accomplish
| this by surgery. When this is impossible.
and secretion can only proceed by the self
| help OF the organism, the threatened liv-
| Ing tissue must at the same time be pro-
tected by continual applications of the
remedy to guard against the re-entrance
of the parasites. The fact that the rem
| edy Kills only tuberculous tissue explains
the possibility of applying rapidly in
1 creasing doses
Increased Doses Necessary.
At the outset, when there is much liy-
! ing tuberculous tisse, a small portion of
the remedy sufhces to produce strong
| reaction. Each injection k lis certain
| quantity Of tissue. Ii naturally results
that Increased doses are necessary to OBJ
tain the same degree of reaction. When
| patients treated with increased doses ex-
| perence no greater reaction than unaf-
| fected persons it can be assumed that all
the tissues open to reaction is dead In
cases of lupus Il hundredth of a cent?
metre should be injected and after the
reaction has taken its full course a sec
ond injection should be made, and so on.
| Consumptives are more susceptible, and
the first dose should he only thousandth
OF a cubic centimetre, the doses being in
creased by one-thousandths until they
gradually reach hundredth and up
wards.
Length of Time of Treatment.
Consumptves still comparatively
strong may reach the increased doses more
quickly and with cOrrespondingly more
favorable results. Patients treated in the
early stage of consumption are entirely
freed from .lorbid symptoms sometimes
within four or six weeks. CONSERVATIVES
with large cavities in their lungs will
probably Experience the benefit of the
new remedy only in exceptional instances.
though most are temporarily improved.
Professor Koch holds that the treatment
should be applied only in suitable institu-
tons. He emphasizes the Importance of
early treatment, as it is only in the incip-
lent stages that the remedy j, frlIy eff
gent.
A RascaiIy Banker SEN. =. ID.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Nov. l5.-Judge David
Mclean, ex-president of the Savannah
Savings bank. at Savannah, Mo. was