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CONSUMPTION CONQUERED.
An Accredited Scientist Will
h Test KOch's Cure.
BE Will Bring Back a Supply Of
the Lymph.

DR.. q, P. Loomis, professor OF pathology
in the Medical Department of the University
of the City of New York, and member OF
the staff of visiting physicians of Bellevue
Hospital, has sailed on the steamship IraVe
for Berlin, where, as the representative OF
three New York hospitals, and, it is said,
also Of the Federal Government, he Will per
sonalIy investigate Dr. Koch'S discovery OF
cure for consumption. The hospitals Dr.:
I,oomis represents are Bellevue, Roosevelt
and the New York, from each OF wnlcn ne
has letters to DR.. Koch He is also the &C,
credited representative Of his own medical
college and of the New York City Depart
Sterns. also of the University of the City of
New York. and Dr. Ernst, of the Medical
Department of Harvard College, will 60
with him. DR.. Loomis's mission IS not only
to investigate the discoveries OF LIT. hocn'
and obtain from that scientist as mucn IN
formation as he can about the consumption
crre by inoculation but also to obtain sup
DIV of the lymph or fluid used by the celeora-
ted German for the public hospitals OF thus
CITY. A lively interest is taken by the nos
pital authorities in the plan for supplying the
hospitals with lymph, and DR.. Looms mas
already been assured of the hearty co-opera-
tion and assistance of several wealthy PM
lanthropists who are are connecteo "i'n 'ne
charity hospitals.
DR. foomis has notified DR.. Koch's assist
ants in Berlin of his desire for lnformatlon
and material, and has received from Dr.
Iiebertz, who manufactures the lympn LOT
DIR. Kock. the assurance that he will be sup
plied with the material he desires: Dr.
ioomis was asked about his visit to beriin.
He said: II have been thinking OF the
journey since the first a1nouncemens OF o. Hr, r.
greatest and most learned Investigators that
fhe scientific world has ever known, and
ANYTHING that comes from him in regard
TO his discoveries is worth the most
careful consideration. This IS especially
true about his discoveries in bacterlaoloSy,
which he added to the science OF medicine,
and tubercular bacillus, which he discovered.
shall take to Berlin with me letters from
the New York hospitals and from one college
and one city department. I shall also have
assistance from far more powerful source,
which has desired me to attain all the lntor-
nation to be had, and which has made the
request that be given this Information and
such material as I shall need for tie intro
duction o. DR.. Koch's methods into this coun-
try. The University Of the City OF New YORK
win send DR.. Sterns, Of the Charity Hospital
ON the same steamship, and lunderstand 1na0
several well known doctors or New orK ClCy
bouno on the same errand.
81 expect to return to New York in about
four weeks By that time wards will have
been set aside in both Bellevue and New York
Hospitals for testing the merits OF the koch
treatment. 1t may be, though, that VIII
be absent much longer, but ! THINK can ac-
complish all that desire in from 'ur to SIX
weeks"
"What is YOUR opinion Of the mer' t Of DR.,
Rock,c disc0yery?' was asked.
81 must decline to give any opln. On, be
cause know no more about DIR. Kochs dis.
covery at present than what have read
That has been very indefinite. The lnfor.
nation given in the newspapers has been
exceedingly meagre, except IN inc one
case where DR.. Koch published paper on
his discovery, but even that did not gave any
est confidence in DR.. Koch, though, and
shall hear with great interest anything COM
inc from him. Dr. Koch has made some
most remarkable discoveries and has added
greatly to the scientific knowledge of medl-
cine. It was Dr. Koch who discovered the
cause Of Asiatic cholera, and after that the
cause of consumption. His nVestlga-
tions gave to medicine the new oranch
To-, of bacteriology, and he has con-
tinued his investigations increasingly up to
the present time he has made and an
nounced many important discoveries and
never has he had to take back anything he
has said. His last discovery is entitled to
grave consideration. especially so because
DR.. Koch's investigations Of the cause and
course of consumption have proved to the
satisfaction of the medical world that the
disease is due to the tubercular bacilli, though
there was no limit to the skepticism that fol-
lowed the announcement Of his discovery.
'Dr. Koch has been criticised for keeping
secret the formula for preparing the lymph
heusei in his experiments, and for not hav-
ing made public the knowledge Of other de-
tails Of his discovery, but think that is un-
lust. The announcement Of his discovery
was made prematurely, think, and DR..
Koch is waiting until he has obtained more
convincing results before giving his discov-
cry to the world. He evidently did not in
tend to make any secret OF it, be-
cause he told a number OF physicians
the formula for manufacturing the lymph,
and it would be impossible to make secret
of it long. DR.. Koch has been engaged In
investigations relating to bacteriology. for
wears, and he never kept secret any of his
former discoveries. The German Govern
ment sent him to India, and there he found
the germ which caused Asiatic cholera. His
discoveries concerning tuberculosis were
made known without hesitation, and his
method for curing consumption must be
known to the world now within very short