The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1890-12-20

public feeling against the experiments
become ID France that many patients
have refused to submit to further trials
DR.. Looms, an eminent physician of
New York, considers the lymph the
greatest medical discovery Of the age,
and says he saw an E1glishman cured OF
nine years lupus with sixteen mice
lions, He says that Prof. Won LeYden
told him he had so much confidence in
the remedy that he would use the lymph
on his own son if occasion necessitated
it. DR.. Loonlis says that every drop Of
the fluid Is worth 81 300, as diluted
drop will furnish about one hundred and
thirty injections Of average strength, and
auv respectable American doctor can get
800 for each injection. AS vial con-
tains about sixty drops its actual COM
nercial value would be $78, 900, single
drop Of the fluid being worth three times
more than fioe diamond of the same
size. If that be the case. the lymph will
prove a golden bonanza for DR.. Koch
aud tie medical fraternity.
Prot. VArchow, of Vienna, the fore
most pathologist Of the world, was asked
his opinion IF the marvellous lymph by
q correspondent of the New York Her
aid. The great doctor was somewhat
sarcastic III his allusious to it and hugh
ingly SAID that an American student in
his laboratory had begged for tsone
Drop in order to start new hospital in
Philadelphia. ..-.. .
sit IS absurd to know" said DIR. Vir-
chow, "that doctors IL all parts OF the
world are about to inject powerful
poison in the bodies Of men before DR..
Koch has made known the results of
large or long continued doses upon ami
ais. It is highly dang 'rous and indis"
Greet to have an unknown, untried fluid
used by inexperts. 1t is pity to have
it used upon men in all stages of dis
ease and non-disease when those who
use it should at least know what the
elaborate experiments on animals have
proved" He did not know what the
lymph is made of, and said it was neces
sary 10 take tuberouious tissue from a
living patient before the lymph treat
menf, and from the same spot after the
treatment. in order to judge what the
action 1s: otherwise, changes caused by
disease may be mistaken for changes
caused by the lymph. lie thought the
remedy Was dangerous for children and
persons in the advanced stages of dis
ease, as in the CASE OF children it would
bring on perllous inf ,moa alton of the
lungs, aud in advanced phthisis it is apt
10 destroy the lungs. La ether cases the
fluid il likely to cause fatal inh ANIMATION
of the brain tissues. In case of tuber-
culosis of the lungs the doctor said that
in the early stages of the disease slight
Improvement was noticeable after an in
lection, aud the patient claims be feels
better. bat his mind and system are af-
fected aud stimulated by the knowledge
that he is receiving new remedy which
is said to be quick cure, and he was
inclined to the belief that these results
are psychological. lit will take 8 year
or two" concluded the eminent physi-
clan, ssbefore we can tell whether the
lymph is an f.ctlve remedy. No tests
MAJ a in the time OF excitement are worth
much. We must have period OF quiet
before the real search for results can be
made, for the patients must be in nor
mail condition.. 1t is possible that by
careful experimenting for two Or three
years We may be able 10 use DR.. Koch's
lymph successfully IN combination with
some other compound. and so conquer
I,h h1sis in it's first forms So much is
being SAID Of this remedy at home and
abroad that We submit this information
it for the benefit of our read.
ers. According to the medical authori-
ties quoted the lymph will either kill or
cure,