The Lamar register., 1890-11-22
The Cure for consump,ion.

DR.. Koch, who has discovered what
is believed 10 be a cure for consumption,
has published a statement OF the bes,
method OF application and the probable re
suits.
Persons suffering from tuberculosis Of
the limphatic glands, bones or iolnts, have
been treated with success. There has
been rapid healing in the milder cases and
cases OF recent development ofthe disease.
while in the severe cases the improve
ment, while slower, has been steady. Pa
tients with pronounced tuberculosis Of the
lungs have proved far more susceptible to
the remedy than those suffering with sur
gical tubercllar affections. Consamp,iyes
have in almost every instance manifested
strong reaction on greatly reduced
doses. With such patients, therefore,
beginning should be made with doses Of
two one-thousandth part OF cubic cent?
meter, or even with one thoGsandth part
From this small incipient dose one can ad-
vance TO such quantities as the patient can
easily bear. In the experiments that have
been conducted, consumptives have ac-
cordingly first received subcu;aneous
cubic centimeter, then when the tempera-
ture increased the same dose was applied
daily, until no further reaction occurred.
Thercupon the dose was doubled, two one
thousandths part Of a cubic centimeter be-
ing injected regularly until again no re-
action occurred. This method was con-
tinued with almost always an increase OF
one-thousandth part OF a cubic centimeter,
or almost two oue-thousandths up 10 one
one-hundredth part, and so on upwards.
In this way the patient would be brought
to take very high doses almost without
fever and almost impereeptioly to him
self. Consumptiye patients who are still
fairly strong reach Increased doses much
more quickly, nrd favorable results follow
with corresponding rapidity. AS general
rule the coughing and expectoration are
increased somewhat after the first iniec-
tions, when they become gradually less
and in the most favorable cases will ulti-
mately wholly disappear.
Professor Koch deprecates the mechan-
ical and indiscriminate application of the
remedy. He holds that it would be pre-
ferable that the treatment should be ap-
piled in suitable institutions where careful
observation would be possible.
In all cases Professor Koch emphasizes
the necessity of early treatment. Only in
incipient stages OF disease, he declares,
can the remedy fully develop its efficacy.
The lymph is described as consisting of
a brownish, transparent liquid so prepared
as to be proof against deterioration. When
diluted with water for use the matter is
liable TO decay; it is necessary, therefore,
that the attenuations should be perfectly
sterilized by heat and preserved in n
wadding covering, or prepared with q
solution of phenol 80 per centage strong
When taken into the stomach the curative
matter proves TO have no effect. 1t must
be applied sub cutaneously by means of
valveless syringe, which must be rinsed
with absolute alcohol and kept in per-
fectly antiseptic condition.
There is a regular exodus from the
Mediterranean shores OF consumptives to
Berlin, and the hotels are rapidly filing.
Many American doctors have given notice
that they are coming to hear Professor
koch's lecture on November %. A host
OF foreign doctors are arriving.