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Ds. Kosh's Cure for comsnmptiop.


DE-. Kosh's Cure for Consumption.
Sfsass iaitt 8 81 everywhere being
manifested in the reports now COM
Ing from Europe concerning the al.
lcggea} discovery ~ ssoff ss Irgochs, 5
Berlin, Of Il method for the cure soi
consumption by inooulation. DIR
Koch announced his discovery of the
tnberole bacillus asa living germ in
ssss22 aiid il now appears that he has
50 far succeeded in producing the
tpbercular bacillus rs to be willing
to employ it practically on those, af-
ficted with consumption, although
it is announced that only leading
bacteriologists and physicians can be
admitted to a knowledge of the pre-
paration of the lymph, as it requires
the most thorough care and q high
degree of skill.
1t is said that about one-fourth of
allthe deaths occurring among human
beings during adult life are caused
by consumption, or pulmonary tuber-
%oulosis, a disease of the same nature
also prevailing to a great extent
among cattle. it is produced by
living germs finding their way into
tho body, generally attacking the
lungs first, where they multiply un-
der favorable conditions and throw
off new growths, the discharges
from which contain also the living
germs. The latter, however, do not
grow outside of the human OF. animal
body, except under artificial condi-
tons, although they may long retain
their vitality, to again reproduce
themselves when received into the
body. 1t is thus that consumption is
most often produced by breathing air
in which these germs are suspended
as dust. .
1t is on these germs that DIR. Koch
has been experimenting to produce,
by artificial propagation, Il bacillus of
milder form, which, on being intro
duced into the system, as by inocula-
ton, would overcome and eradicate
the more dangerous bacilli causing
the disease. The experiment. have
been substantially in the same line
with those of Pasteur relative to the
cure of hydrophobia, DR.. Koch hay
ing been one of the first to acknowl.
edge the efforts of Pastcur in this
field, and having aided largely in the
successful development of the Pas
tour theory and practice
The Charity Hospital, at Berlin,
has been the scene of Prof. Koch's
experimental work, although it is
said that he has already had many
patients of high social standing, and
achieved some remarkable success.
The accounts thus far received say
that the patients have been pledged
to secrecy as to the method of treat
ment, which would be somewhat
strange were it not for the fact that
t M announcements -- aallss9- made that
DR.. Koch is preparing for publication
a work fully explaining his discovery.
1t may well be that he is afraid more
harm than good would come from
the getting abroad of any partial or
incomplete understanding of it,
which might lead incapable or indis-
Greet practitioners into ineffective at
tempts to follow his line of practice.
1t is said that in cases now under
treatment a change for the better is
observed after five or six injections
of lymph, within a fortnight, al
though II case Of long standing re-
CURED a month to effect an improve
mcnt. From four to eight weeks is
thought to be the time IT, L, will be
required to effect an ordinary cure.
1t is announced that before six
months all the patients now under
cure will have passed through the
period of observation, and that then
Prof. Koch will be able to publish
his discovery to the world.