The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-11-25

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DIR. W. C. ovERsTREET.
AT present hardly know what my
opinion is. | have great confidence
in DR.. Koch, consider him q man Of
remarkable ability. A few years ago
he discovered the bacillus tuberculo
sis, and now he proposes to give us q
remedy to kill the bacilli, in this the
whole world vii. wish him success,
and if fine demonstrates his theory t.
be correct, too great honor cannot DE
accorded him in the medical profes.
SIGN. He will step up and take his
seat beside the immortal Jenner, the
discoverer of vaccination, which has
almost rid the world of one of its
greatest plaques small pox which
formerly devastated cities and armies.
DR.. Koch is very conservative in
regard to the outcome of his discovery
and wisely withholds the origin of the
lymph that he uses, from the masses,
until there is no longer doubt in the
minds of his colleagues when, he,
like true beneiactor of mankind,
will give the world the benefit of his
knowledge.
WILSON UAnn, n. ID.
We know nothing as yet of DR..
Koch's treatment of tuberculosis ex.
cept what is published in the secular
press, as he has not yet given his
secret OF the "lymph treatment" to
The profession /; but, to my mind there
is no doubt but that he will be sue
cessful in the treatment of this disease.
The principle is the same As the
Home pathetic Law of cure "Similia
Similibus Curantur" as indeed is the
tendency of nearly all of the new dis.
coveries in medicine.
DR.. Krch does not claim to cure
all cases of consumption, but should
be be successful in seventy-fve per
cent of cases treated, it will certainly
be great boon to mankind. That
he has been successful in at least this
proportion there seems to be no
Goubt.
| think he is right in not giving
the secret TO the public until he has
thoroughly proven its efficacy. He
says "the experience of premature
discoveries has made me wise and
were to publish how the first stage
of the discovery was made; the exact
ingredients, and the method of the
preparation of the fluid, thousands of
medical men from Moscow to Bueuos
Ayres would tom 'rrow be engaged
in concocting il, and injecting it ito,
for that matter.
Then these experiments might
cause incalculable harm to thousands
of innocent patients and at the same
time bring into discredit system of
treatment which be believes will be a
boon to mankind.
DR.. IRA BRONSON.
1t would seem to be decidedly pre-.
mature to enter upon a discussion Of
the merits of DR.. Koch's new remedy
for the cure of consumption at this
early date. Unless We may be per-
mitted to make use of an inexcusible
of ifs. for We can know but
little Of this method aside from the
fact that DR.. Koch states in an article
to the Medical News that he uses q
lymph Of dark amber color. ipjects
it under the skin between the shout
der blades of patients suffering from
disease.
From bis own language he says il |
Is impossible at this early stage of the |
Use of the remedy to predict with any |
degree of certainty the future results
IF his discovery. This must be true
inasmuch that it takes months to de.
tide whether a person suffering from |
consumption has been materially ben.
lifted by any special treatment. 1t
being a characteristic of tuberculosis
o have long intervals of apparent
atency when receiving no medca-
nent whatever.
If this treatment of DR.. Koch |
proves to be what he has sanguine
ropes to believe, it will be boon
conferred upon man, the value of
which has not been known since the
,reat discovery of Jenner, when he
ave to the world the vaccine lymph
hat stopped the great ravages of
mall pox until to-day it has become
comparatively extinct. Neither have
We any reason to doubt but the time
will come when a like remedy shall
'e 70 und to check the onward march
his most dreadful disease consump-
ion. The discovery of such specific
ould well stand at the head of
ven such men as Harvey, Jenner,
'asleur, etc. For there is no disease in
be nosology of diseases that results
more fatally to mankind. and entails
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