St. Paul daily globe., 1890-11-16
KOCH A MEDICAL KING.
He Holds Supreme Sway Over
Public Interest Through
out Europe.
ConSumptives Flocking to
Berlin to Be Treated by
His Method.
His Discovery Pronounced the
GrandeSt in the History
Of Medical Science.
Secret of the Composition of
the Lymph Divulged to a
Few.

ihCuI HAS lill6llSllleu Tue 6XCltetileHI
both here and abroad, and from every
center of Europe and America tee-
grams of inquiry are pouring in Oh
Koch, Ptuehct, Cornell, Bergman and
the other medical men who are known
to be engaged in treating patients by
the new method. kOch'S clinique in
Albrecht's strasse, the imperial sani-
tary institute, ReichS Gesundheitsanit,
where Cornell and other kOchiStS
are at work, are swamped with
letters and personal applications.
Many medical men, including number
of English and American physicians,
have been studying the process under
DR.. Levy, in the small wards of a pri-
vate hospital at No. &c Preuzalauer
straSse.. where Prof. Koch first
achieved striking results with small
means. Here since October eight
prominent cures of conSumptiveS have
been in progress. DIR. Levy every
morning shows his patients to the visit
ing physicians ard illustrates the pc
culiar features of the new meth
cd as visible in individ-
ual cases. Addressing group
OF physicians in his private lab
oratory, Dr. Levy said: 1.-The remedy
not only attacks particular places and
groups of bacilli, but rapidly annilhi-
lateS all tuberculOuS bacilli with which
bodies are affected. We now know that
the curative matter
Acts Usually Upon Groups.
1.-The first care is to free the organism
from bacilli. To attain this end we ap-
ply massage at an early stage of the
treatment to the glands, joints. ETC., af-
fected by tuberculosis in order to force
the bacillI which have encased them
selves into cysts into the blood chan
nels, where we can more easily reach
them than when they are i'll those PARTS
where the circulation has little intiu-
ence. After the massage and the injec-
ton suhdue the bacilli, all that remains
TO be done In cases of tuberculosis of
the bones is to remove the dead pieces
or bone, and to restore the general
health of the patient" In order to
meet the pressure of cases, another hos
pital is about to be established in the
Alexander Platz, where the Hotel
Germania is being transformed into
wards, having $50 beds, for
consumptives. DR.. Pfuehct reports
a strikingly rapid cure of lung
tuberculosis. The patient was man
for six years. and his case was appar-
entity hopeless. The first injection was
made on Nov. 5, the usual symptoms
followed, with the injection. The in
crease in fever and sickness were fol-
lowed 10y distinct change in the char
acter OF the Sputum and notable cessa-
ton of the characteristics of consump-
ton. DR.. Pfuehct promised the patient
that though it cannot replace the parts
of the lung that are gone, the
remedy will insure healthy
retention of the smallest portion
left. The secret of the composition of
the lymph has been communicated to
PrOfS. Bergman, Fraentzel, Brieger,
Levy and other intimates of Prof. Koch
here; also to Prof. Weigart, of Frank
fort; DR.. RaSt, chief of the Hamburg
hospital, and Prof. Nothnagel. of the
Vienna university. Prof. Nothnagel,
addressing the students of the univer-
sity, SAID: 1--WE face one of the greatest
intellectual achievements in
The Province OfMedicine
for centuries past. Prof. Koch's dis
covery has far wider scope than Jen-
ner's, and is. perhaps, the grandest feat
in the history Of our science. What in
spires me with admiration is not so
much the actual discovery as the
method of meteorological research.
which must serve as the basis of all
future discoveries in that line. The
present moment Is among the most SUBJ
lime that humanity has known" The
students shared the fervor of
Prof. Nothnagel, and cheered him
to the echo. Prof. Billroth holds
that Prof. Koch's method places
it beyond doubt that a remedy will be
found before long for cancer, which is
still the greatest mystery in medicine,
as experience indicates that carcinoma
has bacillic origin. The only skepti-
cal criticisms OF Koch's discovery come
from French medical men. Prof. Bro
nard. dOyen of the Paris medical fac
ulty, is reported to have written letter
in which he processes incredulity of the
efficacy of the remedy until its nature is
fully known and science has proof
of its effectiveness" Until we know"
says Prof. Bronard, 1.-THE composition
of the remedy, the history of expert
ments on animals and the prolonged
therapeutic effects on patients, no one
ought to pronounce definitely upon the
remedy" M. Pasteur and Prof.
Bouchard are said to be withholding
their opinions for similar reasons.
Their attitude, however, does not affect
the medical fraternity outside of France,
who have personally watched the
Process of the Cures
by the new system. Prof. Bergman
lectures tomorrow to physicians only
on External Tuberculosis" and DR..
FraentZel Monday Oh internal Tuber-
culosis." DR.. Rast will begin the treat
ment of patients by the new method i'm
the Hamburg wards next week, prepar-
ing the lymph in his own laboratory.
Prof. Koch has entrusted DR.. Weyl, of
Frankfort, with the treatment of cases
in the institute of hygiene there. Prof.
Koch IS also receiving communications
from English and American medi-
cal men regarding the method
Cornell has received the fourth-class
decoration of the Order of the Red
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 already been sold. The
publishers received 10000 marks for
early proofs. The sanitary council of
Austria will send two OF it's member to
Berlin to procure the lymph, and
will test the treatment in the
Vienna hospitals. Count Douglass,
whose intimate relations with the
emperor and the porte are well known,
will probably succeed DR.. Lucius as
minister of agriculture. Count Douglas
had an interview with the emperor yes
terday, and conference with Herr
Miguel, Prussian minister of finance,
to-day. Although DR.. LuciuS has re-
signed, the emperor to-day received
verbal reports from him. 1t is doubtful
whether Miguel, who now
Sways the Prussfan House
on questions of both politics and finance,
approves of Count Douglass. The re-
ception of the government bills an
nouncrd from the throne is generally
favorable. The Tageblatt regrets that
no hope is held out of an adjustment of
the taxation, but reioices over the fact
that any surplus received from the new
arrangement of taxation will be devoted
to the tightening of local taxes. The
Friesinnige Zeitung declares that the
government ignores the surplus
of 1GO 0O0 600 marks for 1SSqISQ0