The Portland daily press., 1890-11-20
A nineteenth CENTURY MIRACLE.
Doctors Amazed at the Effect OF
Koch's magic Fluid.
IL Seems To BE a Modern Elixir
Of Life.
What Distinguished vlennese PhysI-
clans Saw In Berlin.

NEW YORK, November ia Vienna de-
spatch in the Herald's European edition
says:
The first Vienna doctor who went to Berlin
to study Koch's cure has already returned,
and his report of his experiences is very in
teresting. He is DR.. Carl Hochsenger, Of the
Rudolph Hospital, and his earnest advice to
patients is at present to refrain from going
to Berlin. The influx of doctors and pa
tients Is so very great that 1t will not be pos
sible 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 a position to make tho
lymph for themselves.
DIR. Hochsenger was five days in Berlin,
and has had every opportunity OF watching
the immediate effect Of DR.. K0ch's remedy
upon tuberculous diseases. He saw the in
jections made by Doctors Cornet, Krause
and Levy upon consumptive adult patients,
cases of diseased larynx and scroful0us or
tuberculosis children, whose glands or bones
were infected.
BE says it is as If Koch's lymph bottle con-
tanned some magic fluid, the immediate tntu-
ence of which, watched by a physicians eye
Is indeed miracle. A milligram, the thou
sandth part of cubic centimetre, was inJec-
ted under the skin Of child which mad
scrofulous glands on the neck, each as large
ti0n had been made the glands began to
swell, the skin over them Redeemed and be-
came hot and gave pain. Still the gland did
not burst nor show signs OF becoming an ao-
scess. 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 medical
man Is overpowering. That a remedy
should have been found which destroys the
4xntsa xrrtf hnr anu nt RI of
the body. and that through the blood it
should be able tc approach the infected tis-
sue. is triumph of science.
After having expressed himself in the
most enthusiastic words respecting the dis
covery, DR.. Hochsenger explains that the
applied in Berlin at this moment is by no
means worthy Of its great master and dis
cOverer-that those doctors whom Koch has
designated as his assistants, Drs. COrnet,
Levy and Dengler, make several hundred in
1ections every day upon as many patients In
ten sanitary esta lishments. 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 manner in which the pa
tients are treated is absolutely unscienLi6c.
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 al
together out of the question. Professor Won
Bergman only treats such patients as have
skin tuberculosis, but the much more import
ant c0nsumptive patients are treated so that
men of science can learn nothing concerning
their cases.
1t would be very different II such men Of
science as Drs. Leyden. Gerhardt, Senator
had intrusted with the practical application
OF his remedy. 1t Is, therefore. but fair that
a general demand should arise that the rem
edy 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, Professor
SchnitZler, who has also just returned, says
the effects Of the medicine are phenomenal
in very short time. The healing effects
quite as effective, but still very favorable,
are its effects upon tuberculosis in the bones I;
where consumption of the larynx or lungs Is
in the first stages, there seems to be good
chance of cure, but where the disease /, ad-
yanced there is certainly danger in applying
the remedy.
The Professor saw female patient who
after tue first injection, lost consciousness
for Sc hours, and was feverish during the
whole time After the second injection she
was unconscious for IS hours: Several 9th
er patients had high fever, and showed signs
OF irresistible sleepiness. Light attacks OF
pleurisy also result from the injections in
some cases.
Professor Schnitzler thinks that no out
patients should be treated with the remedy,
as 1t is not possible to foresee the results.