Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-17
KOCH'S SECRET.
All Europe AgOg Over the Cure for
Consumption and How 1t Works.
The Secret OF the Competition Of the Lymph
Communicated 10 SOM OF thu Frofes-
sors, but Not Made Public.
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| lSOpFrlghIeu, by hSsoclatSC Iress.
BERLIN, Nov. l5.-Professor Koch
holds supreme sway over public interest.
| The publication of the professors state
ment yesterday has intensified the ex-
element 10th here and abroad, and
from every center of Europe and America
kilograms Of inquiry are pouring In on
| Kock, Pfuhl Cornell, Bergman aud other
medical men who are known TO be en-
gagged in treating patients by the new
method. Koch's clinique in Albrechts
Strasse, the imperial sanitary institute,
and Relchsgesundherts, where Cor
| mel and other Kochists are at
fwork, are swamped with let
tiers and personal applications. Many
medical men including a number of Eng
lish and American physicians, have been
studying the process under DR.. Levy in
the small wards of the private hospital,
where Professor Kock first achieved
striking results with small means. Here
since October 8, cures OF con-
sumption have been in pro-
gress. DR.. Levy every morning shows
frhis patients 10 visiting physicians
and illustrates the peculiar features of
the new method as visible in individual
cases. Addressing group of physicians
in his private labratory. DR.. Levy said
the remedy not only attacks particular
places and groups of bacilli, but rapidly
annihilates all superfiuous bacilla with
which bodies are inf ested. We now know
that the curative matter
ACTS EQUALLY UPON ALL GROUPS.
First, care is to be taken 10 free the
organism from bacilli. To attain this
eebd we apply massage at an early stage
of the treatment TO the gland joints af-
fected by tuberculosis, in order TO force
the bacilli which have encased them
selves in the system in the blood chan
nels, where we can more easily reach them
than wnen 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 bones is to
remove the dead pieces of bone to restore
general health of the patient. In order
to meet the pressure OF cases
another hospital is about to be estab-
lished in Alexander plaza, where the
Hotel Germania is being transformed
into wards having $50 beds for consump-
tives. Dr. Publ promises the patients
that, though it cannot replace the parts
of the lung that are gone, the remedy
will insure the healthy retention of
THE SMALLEST PORTION LEFT.
The secret of the composition of the
lymph has been communicated to Pro-
fessors Bergman, Berger, Levy and
other intimates OF Professor Koch here.
Professor Nothuagel of Vienna nniver-
sity, addressing the students of the uni
versity, said: We face one of the great
est intellectual achievements in the pro-
vince of medicine for centuries past.
Professor Koch's discovery has a far
wider scope than Jenner's and is perhaps
the grandest feat in the history of our
science. What inspires me with admira-
ton is not so much the actual discovery
as the method of ARCHAEOLOGICAL research
which must serve as the basis of all
future discoveries in that line. The pres
ent moment ia among the most sublime
that humanity has known.
Skeptcal criticism of Koch g discovery
comes from French medical men. Pro-
fessor Beronardel Dover of the Paris
medical faculty writes: tUntil we
know the composition OF the remedy, the
history of experiments on animals and
prolonged therapeutic effects on the
patients, no one ought to pronounce
definitely on the method.
Professor Koch is receiving commune
cations from English and American med
zeal men regarding the method of dis
tributing the lymph,