The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-12-14
K0Cn'S LYMPH IN THE CITY.
OR. OppeNHlMER HAS A FEW
DROPS OF ".

visit Of the President Of the Boar" W
ues,th 10 New York-fie Refuses To say
How He Obtained the Liauid-How the
Remedy 10 Used.
pr. W. T. Oppenhimer, president OF the
BOARD Of Health, returned yesterday rom
a brief visit to New York, where he went 10
secure at least small quantity OF DR.
koch,s famous discoyery-lymph. or oara-
,oloid. His visit was signaily successful
a. by great persistency and by having IN
nnentlal friends in this city. he secured
nearly two drops of the priceless nuld' Out
tho Doctor refuses positively 10 state DOW
ne got Il, save TO say that he came ny II
honestly. For practical use Tue HInPn'
which is kept IN highly concentrated FORM
in order 10 be proof against deterioration ~
diluted with water until the resulting
liouid contains only one per cent. OF inc
original concentrated material
FOR A PATIENT.
Dr. Oppenhimer's visit TO New ork IN
.earch OF the lymph was made in the IN
terest of a patient who was very III WIN
consumption, but when he returned ne
found that the stage Of the disease was
such "a 10 render an injection useless. lie
s,,Il has the cure in his possession,
and expects 30 use IL with one OF
his patients suffering from tuberculous
troubles, but as yet he has not decided VINO
shall receive the first injection OF Dr' hocu
Nmph in Richmond. Dr. Oppenhlmtr SAN
that he had no reason TO doubt the eIh'lehc!
Of the great German doctors discover!
hut Al The same time he refused to eN-
press his belief in It's power 10 cure. III
TACT he said that science had not yet had
an onportunity OF asceuaining It's rear
merit. ms IL takcs'sevCral months aiter H'
first injection for the result 10 become az
parent. The lymph is brownish, ABOUT 'he
color of clear beef Tea ana ~ Transparent
The process of introducing the llquld j.
through the hypOdermIc syringe. The back
of the patient is barred, and the huld IN
,ected between the shoulder-blades. lhe
syripge has 10 bc cleansed with absolute
alcohol. and kept in "A perfectly aseptlc con
dition. Physicians who are conducting inc
EXPERIMENTS will publish their complete re-
suits for the benefits Of medical science as
soon as they can be collected.
TUBKRCULAR TISSUE.
Trials Of the lymph so far made indicate
that what the fluid Kills is not tubercnlaf
bacillus. but the tubeTcular tissue Ihl'
fact indicates the well-dehned limits which
the efficiency of the remedy VIII De aDi'
10 reach In other words, IL car
only influence living tubercular tissue. II
has no effect whatever upon dead tissue
such as decayed Gaseous matter, necron'
bones, and the like. More than this, u pro
duces no effect upon tissues which nave al
ready been killed by the application OF th'
remedy. II is quite possible that such deat
tissue may still contain living tuberc lou'
bacili. These may then be either expelled
with the necrOtic tissue, or may be that
under special circumstance, they ma!
again invade adjacent living tissues.
IL follows, therefore, that the tuberculou'
tissue that is still living must be made mrs
10 decay. When this has been accomplished
every effort must he made to remove th
dead matter by surgery. The iaci that lh
remedy causes decay only of tuberculou
tissues affecting exclusively living tissues
explains why the curative fluid may be az
nlied In ranidiy increased doses.