The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-28
BOGUS LYMPH ON SALE.
FOREIGN MEDICAL MEN LOADED
Up WITH TIE IMITATION.

The Police Trying TO Unearth the
Peddlers of the Imitation-Dubiin
Doctors Send a Check, but Stop It's
Payment Before 1t Falls into the
Hands of the Sharpers.
(cOpwight, 1890, by the Ne,p York Associated
PreSsl
BERLIN, Dec 27.-It has been discovered
tnat spurious imitation of Prof. Koch's
lymph is being manufactured, and a num-
Der OF cases have been reported in which
foreign medical men have been deceived
into purchasing the bogus preparation. The
agents of Prof. Koch have been unable to dis
cover the manufacturers Of the counterfeit.
The police are working on one case where
fraud was attempted upon Dublin phYsi-
clans. A man, who gave his name as
Bouges, and who pretended to be attached
to the Koch clinic, opened communications
with the doctors OF the Dublin hospital.
onerlng to send them a quantity of lymph
on the payment of certain sum Of money.
CHECK FORWARDED.
The doctors, in reply, forwarded a check
Ior Sl5 and told Bouges to send lymph.
Bouges also got eos from another Irish
doctor, who was visiting Berlin. Later,
however, the senders Of the check, sus-
pectlng swindle, telegraphed to
stop the payment. Bouges had
given the check to the manager of a hotel
where he was stopping in payment of his
bill. The manager informed the police, but
Bouges had decamped, leaving q quantity
OF plausible limitations of the Koch lymph.
The medical profession throughout the
empire gets more and moro indignant over
the manner in which the lymph is dis
tributed and Prof. koch's secrecy regard
ing its production.
PROTESTS SENT IN.
The medical associations of Brandenburg
and other provinces have sent protests to
the government against the secret manu-
facture OF the Koch remedy, which they
say is giving rise to scandal. The Breslau
medical society sent to Prof Koch and also
to Dr.. Won Gossler, minister of ecclesiastical
affairs, a resolution declaring that it works
great injury to the profession at large to
allow hospitals and privileged p rsons in
private practice monopoly of the lymph.
KOCH INDIGNANT.
Prof. Koch, in an interview with an emil
nent English physician who urged the pro-
fessor to disclose the whole process, got very
wroth at the proposal and declared that he
covery. The IdgebLdtt assais this position
as scandalous, and says the rapacity of the
Koch clique will certainly he severely criti-
cized when DR.. Won Gossler moves in the
Landtag grant for Prof. Koch AID his
assistants Of 5000, 900 marks, with Is per
cent on the annual sales of the lymph. The
treatment in the case of William Degan,
who csme here in charge of DR.. William
A. Taltavall of New York, has proved to
be a failure. Degan has had four injec-
tions, the last two OF which produced no
reaction, and his symptoms are now the
same as they were when he arrived here.
He wishes to return home, and will probably
sail on Saturday next.
st. Petersburg papers state that DIR.
Publ, DR.. Koch's son-in-law, has been ap-
pointed director of the Russian Institute
Of Experimental Medicine.
LECTURE ON THE LYMPH.
PARIS, Dec. 2Z.-Dr. Pean in lecture
to-day at st. Louis hospital on the result of
the Koch cure upon diseases of the throat,
stated that three patients had been gwen
injections of the lymph for affections Of the
larynx. One Of the three had been COM
pletely cured. Another who Is suffering
frcm tuberculosis, combined with pull
monarys LESSONS and laryngial fistule, is
progressing favorably, the Gstul8 giving
evidence of healing. The third patient,
who had lost his voice, has recovered it.
No treatment other than the lymph had
been used. 1t was, therefore, clearly
remedy in effecting cures, although up to
the present time it could not be
claimed that any really permanent
cures had been effected. It was,
nevertheless, the case that notable ameliora-
tion approaching cure had been achieved.
DR.. Pean's statement made profound i'm
preston upon the large audience of medical
men present.
The veterinary society has made an ap-
Paris for subvention to assist in making
experiments with the Koch remedy on dis
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