New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-26

TRYING To MAKE PATIENTS COMFORTABLE FOR
CHRISTMAS

TRYING To MAKE PATIENTS COMFORTABLE FOR
CHRISTMAS
\, many as possible OF the patients under treatment
with the Koch lymph 1T the various hospitals were
rcinoculatcd on Wednesday that they might spend
Christmas free at least from their usual headaches Tho
doctors too. wanted much leisure rs they could got
Yesterday and the only rcluocuaton- were those made
necessary By the conditions IN Individual cases.
headache j. of the most common Of the rcacti0nay
symptoms produced BY the lymph not an intermittet
sort of pain in the head bnt a steady heavy ache
that does not pass away until the powerful fluid has
passed through the ~ stem of the patient ana nShed
rs work.
The patient at the NJ sinai Hospital WHO has
been under treatment for lupus for over two weeks.
and has received the arge, dose, yet administered In
this country. begged Dr.. Ilcncwaun on Wednesday
to r,noculac him then. that he might celebrate the
holiday Yesterday by rejoicing in freedom from head
ache Iii, wish Wa complied with. and many others
were shown the same kind consideration. All Of the
patients az VT. sinai are doing well those suffering
with lupus being In every instance on the road To wat
appca.s to BE- complete recovery Whether these
happy viii De permanent cannot be- decided for
many month, to come. and then only by The expert
cn,e> 81 the patients themselves. II j. we'll Known
that many case, of cancer have been apparently cured
rs medical or surgical methods long before the d''-
c,very OF Tie kmph hlt the ulcers generally reap
reared i'm some O.lpr part Of the body IN after years
n the patients d. not suffer rtn.n - i"ii aNl'u"n
the cure ill be demonstrated as permanent and tme
ONLY ~ course decide the point. Cures oil cancer
have been reported from Vienna and few cases ara
under treatment here. The New-iork physicians ave
observed Ieactioary symptoms I'm these cases. pr Ing
IN, presence Of tuberculosis. Much interest l. b''hs
shown Iv physician, In the treatment OF lupus ana
cancer because OF the opportunity for comparisons
The treatment Identical. and IN cases OF lup"
hitherto the most CRAFTY Ing results have followed
Sow the lupus and cancer practically being treated
side by side, and the developments will be closely
watched
one of the Interesting cases at Bellevue Hospital
i. that Of a woman who admitted on "Wednesday
suffering from what d, known a. gaOpng" cou>ump-
iion. The disease had already made serious inIoahS
and her condition va, extremely feeble. she was
inorulated with one half Of on" mllgamme. tile
smallest possible dose and VIII be rcinocuated accord
lnc 10 the symptom, developed. The other patents
wcr,, reported Yesterday TO be making favorable
rr,yre,- Dr. >hlldy ryiuOculated four OK lhs seven
,aten, at St Francis's Hospital Yesterday with small
doe, and DR.. Weudt gave the Injection 10 nunoer
~ now c,,,s al the Newl OriI Infant Asylum ana 81
Jo,cph', Home There reinoculatlons at me
German Hospital Yesterday. at the Montehore home'
tbe Pulyclnio Hospital. the New-fork Pounding
Asvlum and AZ 1T. Marks Hospital AT al uiese in'
,ttutiJns favorable conditions we're reported.