The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-27
KOCl's CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.
The Wonderful Discovery Still Creating
Great Interest Throughout
the World.
From the New York Herald. I

DR.. Carl Hochsenger, of the Rudolph
Hospital, and his earnest advice to pa
tients IS at present to refrain from
going to Berlin. The influx of doctors
and patients is SO very great that it will
not be possible for Koch to hold back
the composition of a remedy which is
being applied for to such degree that
it would be cruel not to place other
cities in 4 position to make the lymph
for themselves.
DR.. Hochsenger was five days in
Berlin, and has had every opportunity
of watching the Immediate effect Of
DR.. Koch's remedy upon tuberculous
diseases. He saw the injections made
by Drs Cornet, Krause and Levy upon
consumptive adult patients, cases of
diseased larynx and scrofulous or tu-
berculosis children, whose glands or
bones were infected
He says it is as if Koch's lymph bot
tie contained some magic fluid, the
immediate influence of which, watched
by physicians eye, is indeed mira
Gle. A miiligram, the thousandth part of
cubic centimetre, was injected under
the skin of a child which had scrofu-
lous glands on the neck, each as large
as mans fist. Six hours after the in
lection had been made the glands began
to swell, the skin over them Redeemed
and became hot and gave pair. Still
the gland did not burst nor show signs
OF becoming an abscess. Six hours later
the swelling had abated and the glands
were hard and gave no pain. They
were only third smaller than before
the treatment began.
The impression produced upon a me-
dical man is overpowering. That
remedy should have been found which
destroys the tubercule without hurting
any other part of the body, and that
through the blood it should. be able to
approach the infected tissue, is a tri-
umph ofscience.
After having expressed himselfin the
most enthusiastic words respecting the
discovery, DR.. Hochinger eS plains that
the way in which the Koch method is
practically applied in Berlin at this
moment is by no means worthy of its
great master and discoverer--that those
doctors whom Koch has designated as
his assistants, Drs. Cornet, Levy and
Dengler, make several hundred injec-
tlons every day upon as many patients
in ten sanitary establishments. Each
of these doctors treats between two
hundred and two hundred and fifty
patients daily. These three doctors
alone have the lymph. They are not
assisted by any other medical men.
They have no time to question their
patients or observe them. They make
no notes and do not control the effect
of their powerful medicine. The man
ner in which the patients are treated is
absolutely scientific.
DR.. Levy has taken the Germania
Hotel, and Drs. Cornet and Dengler
have rented seven and eight boarding
houses respectively. These are filled
with wealthy patients, and scientific
observations and treatment are alto
gether out Of the question. Professor
Won Bel9mann only treats such pa
tients as have skin tubei culosis, but
the much more important tconsumptive
patients a"e Treated so that men of
science can learn nothing concerning
their cases.
1t would be very difficult if such
men Of science as Drs. Leyden, Ger
hardt, Secator and FranZel were those
whom Dr. Koch had instructed with
the practical application Of his remedy.
1t is, therefore, but fair that a general
demand should arise that the remedy
should not be kept secret, but that
Koch should make both the lymph and
the mode Of application the property
of science.
Another eminent physician, Pro-
fessor SchnitZler, who has also just re-
turned, says the effects Of the medicine
are phenomenal in very short time.
The healing effects are no doubt great
est with lupus; not quite as effective,
but still very favorable, are its effects
upon tuberculosis in the bones; where
consumption Of the larynX or lungs is
in the very first stages, there seems to
be good chance of cure, but where
the disease is advanced there is certain
ly danger in applying the remedy.
The Professor saw female patient
who, after the first injection, lost con-
sciousness for thirty-siX hours, and was
,fever.sh during the whole time. After
the second injection she was uncon-
scious for eighteen hours. Several
other patients had high fever aud
showed signs of irresistible sleepiness.
Light attacks of plelrisy also result
from the Injection in some cases.
BERLIN, Nov. ls.-Professor Ger
hardt to-day explained Professor koch's
method to a large number of foreign
doctors, exhibiting three cases in illus
tration. The first was close OF aggra-
waited disease in the throat. The pa
tient received an injection yesterday of
two milligrams of the lymph. To-day
there was decided reaction and cure
is expected. The second was case Of
phthisis, in which the treatment had
already attended with marked success.
In the third case the treatment was
applied as a means of diagnosis, and as
no reaction followed Professor Ger