The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-11-15
KOCH'S AMAZING CURE
He Is Sure Of It's Efhcacy in all lncip-
lent Cases.
FACTS IN REGARD TO 1T
Consumptlves From all Along the
Mediterranean Flocking to Ber-
lin-American Physicians on
the Way TO Hear Koch.


the Way TO Hear Koch.
BERLIN, Nov. ii.-Professor Koch pub
fishes an article in the Dsuische Medin-
itische VochHschrir on the case Of tuber-
culosis. Professor Koch says be is yet
unprepared 10 indicate the source from
which the curative matter is derived and
the method Of preparation, for the reason
that experimental work is still in progress.
He states that the curative itself can be
obtained from Or. LibbertI, whose ad-
dress is No. % Luenburger strasse, Berlin.
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 10 decay and IL Is necessary there
fore that attenuations be perfectly ster-
iliIed by heat and preserved In waddeG
covering or prepared with a solution OF
phenal 50 per cent. strong. When taken
into the stomach the curative matter
proves 10 have no effect II must be
applied simultaneously by means Of a
valveless syringe which must he rinsed
with absolute alcohol and kept in per-
fectly asceptic condition.
Twenty-hundredths Of cubic cent?
meter intensely affected a healthy man,
who was subjected 10 the experiment,
while two cubic centimeters applied 20 n
guinea pig had little effect. Professor
Koch injected 25-hundredths Of cubic
centimeter under the skin OF his own arm,
and within n few hours experienced a
contraction of the limbs and marked
feeling Of lassitude. Al the same time he
felt desire TO cough, together with diff
Guilty Of breathing. These symptoms in-
creased rapidly, and in FIVE hours
he experienced unusually violent
rigor, accompanied with nausea,
and the temperature of the body
rose rapidly. After IL hours the symp-
toms began TO abate, and Immediately the
body resumed its normal degree. The
heaviness of limbs and the languid feel
ing continued for several days, however.
The same results follow when the fluid is
applied todiseased persons suffering from
other than tuberculosis Affections, but in
persons affected with tuberculosis the
same quantity produces strong general
and local reaction.
The reaction can best be obserSed on
those whose affection Is visible, as for
instance, persons suffering frop lupus.
A few hours after the injection lupus
sores begin To swell and finally assume a
dark brown tint. After the fever subsidies
the swelling decreases and generally dis
appears, scabs Of matter falling Oft the
latter.
II is asserted with confidence that the
remedy may be considered an indispensi-
BILE auxiliary 10 diagnosis, and in doubtful
cases incipient consumption can positively
be diagnosed by lis use.
Professor kocheNpresses the belief that
his remedy will certainly prove a cure for
incipient consumption. Whether. however.
the cure will be final and definite is not
clearly proved. Further experiments are
necessary TO determine that. The remedy
can only influence living tuberculous it's
sue. II has no effect whatever upon dead
tissue, and produces no effect upon It's
sues which already have been killed by
the application OF the remedy. II is quite
possible that such dead tissue may still
contain living tuberculous bacilli, which
may again invade the adjacent living
tissue.
II follows, therefore, that tuberculous It's
sue that is still living must be made first
10 decay. When this has been accom-
plished every effort must be made 90 re-
move the dead matter by surgery. Where
this is impossible secretion can only
slowly proceed, the living tissue must be
protected 10y the continual application Of
the remedy. The remedy is applied in
cumulative doses. A sinall quantity nt
first suilices sto produce strong
reaction, but as each succeed
ing injection causes a disappearance
of a certain quantity Of tissue capable Of
reaction, increased doses are necessary
until the patient experiences as little re-
action as non.tuburculou, people. Pa
tients who have been treated in the early
stages Of phthisic have all been freed
from the morbid symptoms within from
four 10 six weeks, when they may he pro-
nounced as healed.
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.
He deprecates mechanical and indis-
criminate application Of the remedy,
holding il preferable that treatment
should be applied in suitable institutions,
where careful observation Is possible.
BERLIN, Nov. n.-Then is n regular
exodus from the Mediterranean shores
of consumDtiycs In Rerliu, MANY Ampri-