The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-22
ABUSED PATIENTS.
ConsumptiVeS in Berlin Hos
pitfalls Neglected.
Favored Physicians EnrichinS Themselves
at KOch'S Expense.
No Truth In the Assertion That the Rem
edy Will Cure Calcar-G0Yern-
ment Aid 10 Science.
Special to THE MORNING CALL.

LONDON, Nov. 21.-The Berlin correspond
ent of the Telegraph declares that while the
treatment of poor patients in the hospitals
is only half completed, few favored physi-
clans are treating from $50 to $50 daily,
charging them from 81 to e5 a patient.
The correspondent says the hospital pa
tents are only half treated and are greatly
neglected. often being left in dangerous
condition. Professor Koch knows nothing
OF this.
BERLIN, Nov. 21.-The four doctors in
Berlin whom DR.. Koch has so far lntrusted
with the exclusive practice of his cure are
exploiting Koch to enrich their own pockets.
and purposely Withholding information till
their personal nests are well feathcred.
With the exception of Drs. Bergman, Cor
net, Levy and Koehler, the physicians in
general practice in Berlin are as ignorant of
the details of the cure as are the physicians
in New York and London. English doctors
are here by hundreds, but they are permitted
to see little and learn less. Il will be the
same with American doctors when they ar
rive. To see Koch personally is practically
impossible, to procure a supply Of lymph
out of the question, while admission to the
hospitals to see the patients operateGupon is
beset by so lnany barriers that many have
given up the effort in disgustand gone home.
Practically ali incubation in Berlin is
performed by Bergman, Cornet and
Levy, SO far as the general practice
is concerned, and these men have
monopoly which is making them rapidly
rich. Levy charges each pttient S25 for
each visit. Even at this exorbitant price he
is treating two hundred patients daily. The
other three doctors have an equal number
of patients, though some of them charge
less prosperous people only S15 visit
PaSteur has sent his congratulations 10
Koch, who in return sent a specimen of
lymph to Pasteur.
New YORK, Nov. 21.-The Herald's Ber-
lin special says: Koch is certain that his
remedy will cure consumption, but there
can be no truth In what is asserted about its
being cure for cancer, as in that case
Koeh's idea of its being a specific remedy
and differential diagnostic would be eX-
ploded. He made no communication ON the
subject of his remedy to any journalist.
An Italian doctor is said 10 have offered
German physician 5000 marks for a small
bottle of Koeh's lymph, but the supply has
given out.
ITOIeSSOT fTdnlZ6i says tIlaL IN ID0St cases
of primary phthsis there is no such i'm
provement as that which takes place in pa
tients suffering with lupus. He believes
that even in less advanced cases patients
will have to undergo long course Of treat
ment.
In a talk with the Berlin correspondent Of
the Sun Koch says lupus has yielded easily
to the inoculatlng treatment, even when the
cases have been of many years Standing.
I'm fifteen cases out OF twenty consump-
tives living tuberculosis baclli have COM
pletely disappeared from the sputa. In the
remaining five cases / regret to say there is
not the slightest indication that the ordinary
course of the disease has been stopped.
These are cases in which | found already
large cavities in the lungs. OF course,
injection TO the human being having only
been made seventy days ago."
VIENNA, Nov 2l.-Further injections
with Koch's lymph were made in Vienna
to-day, and the symptoms observed con-
firmed the accounts from Berlin. DR.. Ull-
mann, the experienced bacteriologiSt, who
worked for several months in the labora-
tories of both Pasteur and Koch, and who
has recently been in Berlin, believes it will
take whole year with frequent injections
at long Intervals to enable q just opinion to
be formed on the durability of consumption,
either in its advanced or even in Its initial
stage
BERLIN, Nov 21.-The municipal author
tiles have allotted, Temporarily, TO Professor
Koch five buildings in Moabit, suburb, for
experiments looking to the discovery IF a
cure for infectious diseases, such as scarlet
fever, measles, diphtheria, typhus fever and
also cancer,