Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-12-05
CONSUMPTION CONQUERED
An Accredited Scientist WIN
Test KOch's Cure.
He viii Bring Back a Supply Of
the Lymph.

DR.. II. 2. LOOMS, professor OF pathology
in the Medical Department OF the University
Of the City of New York. and a member Of
the STAFF Of visiting physicians OF Bellevue
Hospital, has sailed on the steamship Trave
for Berlin, where, as the representative of
three New York hospitals and it is said,
also Of the Federal Government. he will per-
sonaLy investigate DIR. koch's dlscote cry of a
cure Tor consumption. The hospitals DIR.
Lcomis represents Bellevue. Eoosevelt
and the New York, from each OF which hs
has letters TO DR.. Koch. He Is also the aos
credited representative OF his own medical
college and of the New York CITY Depart
ment OF Public Charities. DR.. Henry g.
Stems. 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 DR.. Koch,
and obtain from that scientist as much in
formation as he can about the consumption
cure by incubation, but also 10 obtain a sup
ply of the lymph or fluid used by the celebra-
ted German for the public hospitals Of this
city. A lively interest is taken by the hos
pital authorities in the plan for supplying the
hospitals with lymph, and DR.. Loomis has
already been assured OF the hearty co-opera-
ton and assistance of several wealthy phi
lanthropists who are are connected with the
charity hospitals.
DIR. LOOMS has notified DR.. Koch's assist
ants in Berlin of his desire for information
and material, and has received from Dr.
Liebertz. who manufactures the lymph for
DR.. kOck, the assurance that he will be sup
piled with the material he desires. DR..
LOOMS was asked about his visit to Berlin
He said: II have been thinking of the
journey since the first announcement of DR..
Koch's discovery. Dr. Koch is one of the
greatest and most learned Investigators that
the 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 bacterlaology,
which he added to the science of medicine,
and tubercular bacillus. which he discovered.
l shall take to Berlin with me- letters from
the New York hospitals and from one college
and one city department. l shall also have
assistance from far more powerful source,
which has desired me to attain all the infor-
nation to be had, and which has made the
request that be given this information and
such material as | shall need for the intro
duction of DR.. Kochs methods into this coun-
try. The University of the City of New York
will send Dr. Sterns of the Charity Hospital,
on the same steamship, and understand that
several well known doctors of New York City
have engaged staterooms also. They are all
bouno on the same errand.
II 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 l viii
be absent much longer, but l think l can ac
complish all that desire in from four to siS
weeks
what is your opinion of the merit Of Dr.
Rocks discovery was asked
Il must decline to give any opinion, be
cause l know no more about DIR. koCh's dis
covery at present than what have read
That has been very indefinite. The infor
nation given in the newspapers has beer
exceedingly eYcaDt the
case where DR.. Koch published a paper on
his discovery, but even that did not give any
idea of the actual methods. have the great
est confidence in DR.. Koch, though, and ]
shall hear with great interest anything COM
ing from him. DIR. Koch has made some
most remarkable discoveries, and has added
greatly to the scientific knowledge of medi-
cine. 1t was DR.. Koch who discovered this
cause of Asiatic cholera, and after that the
cause of consumption. His investiga-
tions gave to medicine the new branch
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
DIR. Kochs 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
lowed the announcement of his discovery.
'tDr. Koch has been criticised for keeping
secret the formula for preparing the lymph
he used in his experiments and for not hav-
ing made public the knowledge of other de-
tails of his discovery, but l think that is un-
just. The announcement of his discovery
was made prematurely, l 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 a secret
of it long DR.. Koch has been engaged in
investigations relating TO bacteriology for
years, 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 DO
known to the world now within a very short