The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-11-25
KOCH'S CURE.
Consumption, the Greatest HUI
man Plague, to be Swept
From Earth.
interviews With Prominent Be-
daIia Physicians Concerning
the Discovery.

The man or woman in Sedalia who
has not seen or heard the name oil
Dr. Robert Koch, M. D., of Berlin,
within the past few weeks, certainly
does not read the newspapers or mix
very much with the busy world. The
eminent physicians claim to the sfec;
that he has at length, and definitely
found the secret of the cure of COM
sumption has startled not only meti-
cal circles, but the public generally.
His name aud achievement hold SUI
preme interest among all classes both
in Europe and America, and if his
discovery should prove to be what is
clsimed for it medical soionoo and
dogma and practice as now received
will be relegated to oblivios.
The following synopsis, of the dis
covery is made for the BAzoo from a
translation of an article by DR.. Koch,
published in an extra edition of the
Medical News, a standard American
authority.
At the b. ginning of this DR.. Koch
says: ''In an address delivered be-
fore the International Medical Con-
gress L mentioned a remedy which
conferred on the animals experimental
upon an immunity against iuoculation
with the tuberc e bacillus, and which
arrested tuberculous disease. Inves-
|. LEGATIONS have now bern carried out
Eon human patients and these form the
subject of the following o )>ervations."
The inves ig atoms have been made
under DIR. Koch's personal
direction by corps of the most emf
nent German physicians ard surgeons.
The remedy. the secret Of the origin
and preparation of which is, withheld
from press and public, is a brownish
transparent liquid. For use, the fluid
must be mpre or les diluted, steril-
lied by heat and preserved under a
cottonwood stopper, or, more conven-
iently, prepared with q one half per
cent solution Of phenol. Introduced
into the stomsch the remedy has no
sdect. 1t should be injected subcu-
taneously with small syringe. This
syringe can easily be kept asceptic by
the use Of absolute alcohol.
The place chosen for the injection
Is the skin Of the back between the
shoulder blades and the lumbar re-
gion. The eject Of the remedy shows
that the human being reacts to it diff.
fereatly from the animal used in ex-
periments, namely. the guinea-pig, the
human being proving in all
cases extraordinarily mere sensitive
than the guiaea-pig. Calculated by
the body weight, oae-6tteenth.tho
andth part Of the quantity which has
no appreciable effect on the guinea
pig, acts powerfully on the human
being. Pain, fatigue and coughing
10 the patient follow the injection,
cut pass away in a few hours.
The most important point in the
new treatment is its early application. |
The proper subjects for treatment are
patients 10 the initial stage of
phthisis, Tor in them the curative |
action can be most fully shown, and
practitioners ia the future will be |
more deeply convinced of the i'm
portance of diagnosing phthisis in as
early stage as possible.
In order to obtain an opinion of the |
LEGAL profession concerning the discev-
cry, BAzoo representative called on |
the following physicians, who courte-
ously furnished the desired infor.
nation:
DIR. e. MUEHL.
DIR. E. Muehl says: DR.. Koch's
discovery of a cure for tuberculosis
Especially Of the lung, first s,age), is
the graudest achievement of medical
science in its far reaching results for
the good of humanity.
In future generations, when speak
ing Of the men that have left the
world better, happier and wiser Tor
having lived in it, will first mention
such names as Koch, Jenner and
Listen.
1t Is OF prime imp prtance that man
should be q good animal. To be q
good animal he must have good health,
and good health, in its broad sense, is
the best CONSERVATION of good morals.
The great value of Koch's discovery
lies herein-that it foreshadows the
time when consumption, tuberculosis
in all its forms, will be eradicated
from the human family. And, when
we consider that the disease attacks
nearly every part Of the body, and
that according to statist cs published
in 1865, three million persons died
annuity from consumption of the
lung alone, the importance of Rocks
will be appreciated. When
the time arrives that Kochis remedy
Al n