The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-17
Can he Cure consump.ion7

Can He Cure Consumption
| Nearly the whole civilized world now has
/ its collective eyes fixed upon DR.. Koch, the
| eminent German physician wEo promises
a genuine and permanent remedy for pull
monary consumption. His statements con-
| corning it show him to be a true scientist
and very conservative and careful iuvss-
tigator. Hence his assertions and promises
have been uniformly guarded and modest.
And his researches seem 50 thorough and
systematic as to inspire general confideaca.
Every stage of the development of his
wonderful cure has been and will be
watched with the deepest interest.
When he started out to find a positive
cure for this dread disease, which has bafiiad
tie combined skill and experience of the
world of medical science for ages, he went
about it 10 a methodical manner BY
series of experiments he first definitely as
certained the cause of consumption. Then
he set TO work to devise an effective rem
edy. Solving that problem could have been
no light undertaking. 1t required long aud
patient study and thought as well as much
careful experimenting. Even now he APP
pears trife 10th to believe in his own sue.
cess though repeated trials seem to have
proven the RENE ~ effective. His cautious
method of procedure aud modest abstinence
from asserting any great claims are the
chief reasons for belief in his ultimate sue
cess, if it has not already been attained
when the international medical congress
was in session in Berlin, last summer, Prof.
Koch enthusiastically declared that the end
of his researches had almost been reached in
the discovery of processes for arresting the
ravages OF consumption. In his address he
spoke of certain metallic preparations which
possess the quality of checking the develop
ment and spread of the micro-organisms in
consumptive persons. He also men
toned the experiments in produc-
ing tuberculosis. Rabbits, pigs and
other animals were infected with the dis
ease-bearing baclli, or. in other words,
were inoculated with consumption. Con-
sumptive animals were then subjected t.
the operation Of the medicine At the time
Of the medical congress the experiments had
not proceeded SO far as to operate on
consumptive men and women. This final
stage has now been reached, and Prof.
u
waiting world"
Emperor William has summoned Prof.
Koch to an interview in order personally to
learn the results that have been obtained
from the new cure. 1t is said the same i'm
pulsive sovereign has also made a personal
gift Of $250,00 to Prof. Koch, and another
of the same amount to endow a national
institute for the production of the lymph
used in Koch's process.
His theory is that the affected part is
infested with tubercular bacillii, and his
treatment is said to be incubation with a
transparent yellowish lymph which emits a
slight odor of carbolic acid. It's action is
to throw off the bacillus by the necrotic
process. After the injection, the patient
becomes feverish, and the fever is followed
by chiis aud vomiting. But improvement
is almost immediate aud very rapid.
This lymph, the Frankfort Zeitttng states,
can be sold for Is marks about So for
small vial. And it further declares that
''the success of the treatment is certain in
tubercular affeshons of the skin, joints and
bones, and also in the early stages of pull
monary complaints by the lymph destroying
the tubercular bacillus Several authori-
ties confirm the report of the cure by DR..
Koch's method of case of lupus (cancer) on
the face and arms within five days"
Prof. Koch has dismissed as completely
cured several of the patients whom he has
been treating for consumption.
BY a late cable dispatch we are informed
that in accordance with his statement that
he desires neither material advantages nor
pecuniary reward for his discovery Prof.
Koch will, in two or three days. publish
full account of his researches in connection
with the discovery.
Further details of it's development will be
awaited with no little impateace.