The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-16
CURE OF CONSUMPTION.
DR.. KOCHS REMEDY THE TOPIC OF
THE HOUR IN EUROPE.

~~N~SS ANN%O8OA w 44CblOIS anu HGT-
sonal Applications-A Little More
Light on the Nature of the Treat
ment and its Effects.
I Copyright, 1890, by The Eeto York AssociatSf
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BERLIN, Nov. l5.-Prof. Koch holds
supreme sway over the public interest. The
publication of the professors statement
Yesterday has intensified the excitement
both here aid abroad. and from every
center of Europe kilograms Of inquiry are
pouring in on Prot. Koch. Drs. Plum,
Cornel, Bergman. and other medical men
who are known to be engaged in treating
patients by the new method in Prof. Koch's
cliniqus, in Albreoht's strasse, the imperial
sanitary institute, and Reich's gesundhei-
SAINT, where DIR. Cornell and Kochists are at
work, are swamped with letters and personal
applications. Many medical men, including
a number Of English and American
physicians, have been studying the process
under DR.. Levy in small wards Of private
hospitals at No. 26 Preuslauer strasse, where
Prof. Koch first achieved striking resulta
with small means. Here sinea Oct. s
prominent cures of consumptiyes have
been N progress. DR.. Levy every morning
shows his patients 10 visiting physicians
and illustrates the peculiar features of the
method as visible in individual cases.
NATURE OF THE TREATMENT.
Addressing group of physicians in his
private laboratory, DR.. Levy said: "The
remedy not only attacks particular places
and groups of bacilli, but rapidly ami
hilates ali tuberculous baoilli with which
bodies are infested. We now know that the
curative matter acts equally upon all
groups. The first care is TO free the organism
from bacilli. To attain this end we apply
the massage at the early stage Of the treat
ment to the glands. joints, ETC., affected by
tuberculosis in order to force the bacilli,
which have encased themselves in
the cysts into the blood channels,
where We can more easily reach
them than when they are in those parts
where the circulation has little influence.
After the massage and injection subdue the
bacilli, all that remains to be done in cases
OF tuberculosis of the bone is to remove the
dead pieces of the bone and restore the
general health Of the patient
In order TO meet the pressure of cases
another hospital is about to be established
In Alexander platg, where the Hotel Ger
mania is being transformed into wards hav-
ing $50 beds for consumptives.
RAPID CURE.
liz AuHh ACpOtbA u hbElAlnklV TdDlQ
cure Of lung tnbercles. The patient was a
man aged 42 years He had been ill for
six years and his case was apparently hope
less. The first injection was made on Nov,
5. The usual symptoms followed after the
injection, an increase in fever and sickness
and were followed by distinct change in
the character of the sputum and a notable
cessation of the characteristics Of consump-
ton. DIR. Pfuhn promises the patient that,
fhOTOh in rqr,1Qt rara0a tho RI Of ha
lung that are gone, the remedy will ensure
healthy retention Of the smallest portion
left.
OTHERS IN THE SECRET.
The secret of the composition of the
lympth has been communicated to Profs.
Bergman, Fraentzel, Breger, Levy, and
other intimates of Prof Koch, aud also to
Prof. Weigart of Frankfort, DIR. Rast.
chief of the Hamburg hospital, and Prof
Nothnagel of Vienna University. Prof.
Nothnagel, in addressing the students of the
university said: eve face one of the great
est intellectual achieve nents in the province
of medicine for centuries past. Prof.
Koch's discovery has far wider scope than
DR.. Jenner's, and is, perhaps, the grandest
feat IN the history of our science. What
inspires me with admiration is not so much
the actual discovery as the method of
meteorological research, which must serve
as a basis Of all future discoveries in that
line. The present moment is among the
most sublime that humanity has known"
The students shared the fervor of Prot.
Nothnsgel and cheered him to the echo.
Prof. Billroth holds that Prof. Koch's
method places it beyond doubt that a rem
edy will be found before long for cancer,
which is still great mystery in medica as
experience indicates that carcinoma has q
bacillic origin.
FRENCHMEN SKEPTICAL.
The only skeptical criticisms of Prof.
Kochis discovery come from French medi-
cal men. Prof. Bronardel Doyno of the
Paris medical faculty is reported to have
written a letter in which he advises incred-
until its name is fully known and
scientific proof given of its effect
Prof Bronarde, ''the composition of
the remedy, the history OF experiments on
animals and prolonged therapeutic effects
on patients, no one ought to pronounce
definitely Oh the method NJ. Pasteur and
Prof. Bouchard are said to be Withholding
their opinions for similar reasons. Their
attitude, however does not affect the medi-
cal fraternity outside of France, who have
personally watched the process OF the cures
by the new system.
LECTURES ON THE DISCOVERY.
Prof. Bergman lectures tomorrow to
physicians only on External tuberculosis"
and DR.. Frentzell. on Monday, On internal
tuberculosis" Dr. Rost will begin the
treatment Of patients by the new method,
in Hamburg, next week. preparing the
lymph in his own laboratory Prof Koch
has entrusted DR.. Wsyl of Frankfort with
the treatment Of cases in the Insti-
tute of Hydgen. Prot Koch is
also receiving communications from
English and American medical men
regarding the method of distributing the
lymph. DR., Cornet has received fourth
class decoration of the order of the Rcd
Eagle. This is the first decoration given in
connection with the discovery. The rush
for Prof. Koch's statement increases. A
quarter of million copies have been sold
already.
The publishers refused 10000 marks for
an early proof of Prof. Koch's book. The
sanitary council of Austria will send two of
its members to Berlin TO procure lymph, and
will test the treatment in Vienna hospitals.