The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-12-25
Virtue Of Koch's Lymph Apparent
in Its Immediate Effect in
Lupus.
Proofs Of the Ultimate Effect in
tuberculosis Awaited With
Interest
Recently Administered to Patients In Sew
eral New York Hospitals-Report OF
Spurious Lymph.

and the New York FOundllngs asylum; an
in the Now York hospital. Roosevelt hos
pital, and, it is said, the Presbyterian hos
pital, wards will be set aside for patient
who may apply for treatment, says the Ne,
York Sun. So far as experiments have bee1
made, with scarcely an exception, the pa
tients have been charity patients. No OK
periments are performed ON patients VII,
object to the treatment.
The feature most prominent in yester
days record of experiments was the increas
of tho doses administered. In Mount Sina
hospital, where the most vigorous cours'
of experimenting has been pursued tn,
doses have been increased from
one milligramme to three milli-
grammes. Thirteen patients in the hospita
we're inoculated yesterday with three milli-
grammes each, five received two MILL
grammes, and two one milligramme. There
are twenty-three cases now in Mount Sina
hospital, and the limit of capacity of the
Two wards set aside for the experiments il
nearly reached.
Four new cases were treated in Mount
Sinai hospital yesterday by DR.. jacob. OF
those under treatment eleven have diseases
of the lungs five suffer from bone tubercu-
losis. two glandular tuberculosis, and three
from lupus. One of the new patients has
tubercular empyema in which there is for
in tho hospital is that Of the young man
who got reaction on Thursday, when he
didn't expect it. The doctors say he got it
from nervousness and fright and not from
any tubercular disease. He hasn't been in
oculated since he got his scare. Women,
the physicians say, exhibit the most nerve
in the operations.
To physicians in Mount Sinai hospital
there was an unusually interesting case,
that of consumptive. The temperature
of the patient rose an hour after inocula-
ton So degrees to 1888 degrees: After the
patient had had sound sleep the tempera-
ture sank to the normal. All the cases in
the hospital have shown decided reaction.
The sputum of consumptive pa tients is in
creased, is lighter in color than before the
operations, and is raised more easily by the
patient. This it is believed, shows that
the congestion in the lungs is slightly re-
lieved.
Among the cases of lupus in the Mt. Sinai
hospital one patient who had an inocula-
ton Of three milligrams showed Yesterday
decided reaction in an hour. The little
most intense febrile reaction yet noted is
regarded as the best test case in the hospi-
tai. She isn't nervous. Whether the lymph
sends her temperature up or not she sings
just the same. The doctors are watching
her case very closely. 1t is case of lupus
OF the face and nose.
All the lupus cases in this hospital show
general Improvement. with itching Of the
surface of the skin. No sloughing of the
surface Of the affected part has yet taken
place. The doctors say it isn't time yet.
A peculiar phenomenon not reported
from the Berlin hospitals has been noticed
in Mount Sinai hospital. Most of tho pa
TENTS complain Of the uncomfortable SEN
sation in the left side in the region Of the
spleen after the lymph is injected. The
doctors say it is possibly due to enlarge
ment of the spleen.
Bone diseases are showing less results
from the lymph than any other form of tu-
berculosis, but this is said to be due to the
fact that the symptoms are moro difficult
of observation. All of them have febrile |
reaction. There were visiting physicians
from Connecticut and Pennsylvania at the |
hospital yesterday.
At st. Luke's hospital ali the patients
were reinooulated by DR.. Kinnicutt, except |
a WON an suffering from glandular tuberou-
losis, who will be treated to-day. Four
diseases, and one to test for a reaction to
determine whether tuberculosis exists.
Three patients were men, the fourth
woman. Texan who was on his way to
Berlin to be treated by DR.. Koch, entered
st. Luke's hospita yesterday, and said he
WOulu IcluAlu III NOW 1OIK II no COulQ get
treated. DIR. Kinnicutt will inoculate him.
DR.. Kinnicutt, speaking Yesterday of the re-
suits observed since Wednesday, said that
pronounced reaction had been obtained in
all cases, and that the most intense results
had been obtained in local tuberculosis,
tional results had been obtained. but they
would develop slowly. The quantity of di-
lutte Emphatic fluid injected at St. Luke's
has been but one milligramme or a very
little more. Altogether DR.. Kinnicutt be-
!ieved that remedy of great potency had
been discovered so far as he could see at
The present time. .
At the German hospital two new cases
we're treated yesterday. They were man
With incipient phthisis and a woman af-
aicted with tubsfcular disease of the bones. :
Each received a millieramme of the fluid.
Eho had had one treatment were inoculated
With two milligrammes yesterday. and .
hose who had had two treatments received +:
'hree nllllRrammes. In every case there
vas decided reaction. In cases of CON :
sumption expectoration Is considerably in J
The highest temperature recorded
s los degrees. DR.. A. Muller, DR.. soudern !
md DIR. Willy Meyer witnessed the opera. !
ions.
In the New York Founding asylum the
'hild who was inoculated on Friday was re-
noculated, and four more children were
reated. Most of them had lupus. There
vas, it was said, one case of consumption. :
number of patients have had the bene- i
It OF being treated in the st. Marks hos G
'ital, Is St: Marks place. since Thursday !
asst. DR.. Leonard Weber. consulting ply
ician to the hospital, having obtained q
upply Of the lymph lately received by Dr.. 8
!: jacob. treated I'VE patients at II q. m. !
,hursday.
On Friday double the quantity was in /
ected sy Drs Weber and Rachel, the most
symptom caused by the lymph I
eng an increase of expectoration, which I
1as quite copious in three patients, but no
over appeared in any of them. Injections 3
nth three times the original quantity were
gain made yesterday morning BY DR.,
'achel. and the patients are being watched /
arefuliy and every symptom noted. I
Of . report among doctors that some
hing was wrong with the lymph procured 4
y DR.. Holbrook Curtis, DR.. Allan McLane
hamilton. who made the first public use of !
lis lymph in town. said last evening that ei
le lymph was genuine Koch lymph. If
ny physician should assert otherwise he -
ould meet the charge in a convincing way. [
g expected more lymph this week. no =.
dded, and would continue experiments at ~
le hospital. Z
Dr.. Belcher, the medical superintendent '
the Home for consumptives, in Brook q
n. 10 daily expecting \ consignment of :,
I. Koch's lymph from Berlin. There vas ,e
report in Brooklyn yesterday that DR.. II
'underllch intended to try the lvmph on a E.
n OF United States Collector Ernest Nath- =
!, OF Brooklyn, who has been suffering with
phthl5ls, but the physician and ;,