Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-11-17
Prof Koch's Consumption Cure

Professor Kocn holds supreme sway over
pnhl;c in crest. Tne publen:iJn Of the pre-
fe:sor's statement 5as inter fed 'de excite
ment and from every cen're Of Elrope sno
America teleg,aus of inquiry are pouFing in
90 Koch, Pluhl, Corne', Ba.gmanp snd the
other nedicsl men who are known 10 be
engaged in tres ing patients by The new
method Ecoh's cluiqle ii Aiorecnt
Straess, the Imperial Sanitary Institute,
where Cornel end o,her Kochis;s are at
ao,k, are swanped with letters end personal
applications. ~,
:terrauean shores Of consumptyes TO Berlin
and the hotels are rapidly filing. Many
American doctors have given notice that
thev desire to hear Professor Koch's Lecture
on November % The Italian Government
has sent three pbysiciens
Many medical men, inc udiog number CT
Engi!sh and American payelciana, have
been studying the process under d.. L3vy
in ths small wards Of o private hospital
where Professor K2oh first achieved s,rik'
ing results with em&l means. Here since
October eight prominent cures OF consumF-
tives have been Il pgc2ress
DR.. Levy every morning 5hows bis patients
to the visiting physicians and illustrates the
nacc!iar features Of he method as visible In
individual cesss. Addressing o group OF
nb5sicians in hls urivets labraiory d., Levy
ssid "Tne remedy no ony attacks partic-
ular places end gruups OF baclli but rao'diy
annjhllates ell iubercuIous baoilli With h.ch
bodies are infested. We now Snow that The
curative matter ec;s equally upon s'i groups.
The fret care is 10 free the orgauisnn from
tacil;. To attain this end So apply mas
sage at an eeriy stege of the treatment 20
the glands, joirts. etc., affected by tubercu-
ioss Ia order to force The becili which have
ipcaged themselves In cysts into tho blood
channels. where we can more easily reach
them than when theg sre Ia tbosa parts
where tie circG ation has little influence.
After the massage and the itjcc'icc eut-
due the blcllii sii that Eema!n5 TO oe doue
In csses Of tuberculosis of the nooe5 is to 1T
move the dead pieces of bone, and to restore
the general health OF the patient"
Dr. Publ reports str;kingy rapid cure
of lung subsrcuies. The patieat Was man
aped % years He bad been i'll for elk yeers,
and his case was apparently hopeless. Dr.
Pfuhl promises ,he patient that, though id
canact replace the parts of the lugg that are
gone, tbs remedy will Insure healthy re-
ten JiOu OF q D cLEd loot ppi 'ioh iOis
The secret Of the composition of the
lymph hss teeu communicated TO Professors
Beremsnn, Fraen z.i, Brseger and Levy, IL
Inmates Of Piof. Koch, aso TO Prof Moth
aaaeI, OF the Vienna UriVers;ty aud others.
Professo: Nothnags!, addressing The s'u-
dents OF he University said I'VE face one
OF tie ereatest intellectual achievements in
the province cf n.edicne Tor centuries past.
Prot Koch's discovery has far wider scope
than Jenner's, sud is perhaps the grande5t
feat in ths history Of our soienca."
Prof. BIlrota holds that Pot Koch's
mathci places it beyond doubt that reDe-
dy will bs found before long for cancer,
whioh is still! the greatest mYetery In medi-
clae, as experience indicates that carcinoma
has q hacilis;ic origin.
The ovIy skepticsl criticism of kcch's
discovery comea FROG, French medical men.
II is stated that bill Will be presented
to the German Reichstag to eraut 1000 OOO
uarks to Prof. Koch, but he will be obliged
TO deposit the now secret formula of his bac-
ilus-destroyipg lymph VITA the Govern
ment before the Re!chtag can vote the
money for the carrying out OF the discovery.