Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-12-04
KOCH'S TREATMENT.
How the Wonderful Curative
Lymph is Produced.
Discussion of the Doctors Methods at
Berlin-What Several Other Ply
sicians Have 10 Say.

BERLIN, Nov. 21.-The Frank Cotr-
ier states that the lymph used by Prof.
Koch for the cure OF tuberculosis Is
prepared i'm an incubating stove, with a
space that is Theoretically sealed and
sterilized, and thereby rendered free
from fungus. The interior of the air
tight space is divided by an unglazed
porcelain diaphragm into an upper and
lower section.
In the upper section is placed a salt
ed meat broth in gelatinous state con-
tanning colonies of the tubercle germ.
This mass gradually liquefies and the
gelatine liquid drops slowly through
the porcelain plate into the lower Sec
ton.
The liquid then contains all the secre-
tory products, but is free from all liv-
| ing or dead germs or reproductive
spores, and is the lyph as used. By the
| injection of the lymph the tubercule
germ is killed and at the same time the
| Injected particles retain sufficient
strength to detach and expel the dead
germs, together with the dead tissue.
The seperative process ensues and heal
ing follows.
A meeting of the medical society was
held yesterday at which Prof. Virchow,
the celebrated German physician, pre-
sided. Prof. Virchow made an address
in which he defended Prof. Koch
against the charge of having prema-
turely published the facts regarding his
discovery,
The INSTRUMENTATION he gave regard
ing the subject, Prof. Virchow said, was
given to the medical congress recently
held in Berlin, and the disclosures he
then made were in compliance with the
urgent request of a committee OF the
congress and DR.. Won Gossier, Prussian
minister of ecclesiastical affairs, educa'
ton and medicinal affairs,
The Ndchrichten says that Emperor
William has bestowed the grand cross
of the Order of the Red Eagle upon
4 Prof. Koch.
Three patients treated by the Koch
method are reported dead. They were
all in critical condition before they
received the injections.
BERLIN, Nov. 21.--In this weeks
number of the Be,ltsche Medicinischt
there appears report by Drs. Berg
mann, Frantzell and others on the treat
ment of tuberculosis. The article which
is written in technical language adds
little to what is already known.
1t is DIR. FranzePs belief that advanc-
ed cases require a long course of treat
ment before the efficacy of the curative
can be demonstrated. DR.. Frantze
agrees with the other physicians thai
the curative attains its maximum OF
value as a means of diagnosis and In
the treatment of tubercular skin dis
eases.
In diseases of the internal organs the
curative is still of doubtful efficacy.
In cases where the cavities are small
they may cicatrize; but where they are
large, owing to the flow of matter anC
the existence of other micro-organlsms
the wasting process continues and death
is the result.
Many of the foreign physicians now
in Berlin investigating DIR. Koch's dis
covery, have warned their consumptiv'
patients against venturing on the dan
gerous winter journey to Berlin. They
believe it to be better for such patients
to await at their homes the arrival o
the lymph. BY so doing the delicatt
consumptive can secure more restfu
and systematic treatment than is poss
ible in this city, overcrowded as it nov
is with those seeking to escape from thu
scourge.
THE DOCTORS QUARTERS.
BERLIN, Nov. 2l.-Buildings in th'
Moabil suburb of this city have beer
temporarily allotted to Prof. Koch by
the municipal authorities for the pur
pose of assisting him in proceeding
with his experiments in the direction
of discovering cure for infectious dis
eases, such as scarlet fever, measles
diphtheria and typhus fever.
The professor will also pursue his in
vestigations into the nature and treat
ment of cancer in this building. 1t will
be possible to accommodate $50 patient
in the temporary hospital.
Prof. Koch considers that his labor
: in connection with tuberculosis ar
completed.