The sun., 1891-02-04
DEATHS UNDER THE LYMPH.
ONE AT BELLHvUB HOSPITAL, ONE
At MOUNT SINAI,

ONE At BELLEVUB HOSPITAL, ONE
At MOUNT sINAI,
Third NJ the Monteaore Home-In tho
Bsiisvse Case the Raciiii Were Found
IN All Parts OF The Body After Death
The Csrsaers once Notiaed in One or
, The Cssss-what Dr. Loomis Says.
At the annual meeting Of the state Medical
Society In Albany DR.. Abraham jacob and DR..
Newton Heineman. both consulting physicians
Of Mount Sinai Hospital. will to-day read
pspers ON the experiments with DR.. K.ch's
lymph In this city since Its first use here on
Dec. 10. The State Medical Society will read
IN THE Sun. however. OF . moro interesting
case than any that will be described to them
by lecturers. 1t 10 that OF man who died in
Bellevue Hospital on Thursday last OF con.
sumption. after long course OF treatment with
the lymph.
A Coroner was notified. and an autopsy was
psrformed. DR.. Henry p Loomis OF So East
Thlrty.iourth street, who brought the lymph
from Berlin and inoculated tho patients In Bel
lsvue. was present at the autopsy with o:her
physicians. The results have not been made
public at tho Coroners' ONCE. but Sun re.
Dortsr has obtained them.
Prof Virchow. after performing autopsies In
the cases OF persons who had died after inoou-
latiou with the lymph. declared recently In sub
stance that the Indications are that the lymph
does not entirely destroy bacilli in tubercu-
losis, but drives them from the part most AZ
fscted to other parts Of the body; that patient
suiYsring from tuberculosis Of the lungs might
be found aome time after incubation to be suf-
fsring from tuberculosis In the kidneys or some
other organ. In the case OF tho Bellevue Hos
pitsl patient 1t was found. BY examining under
tho Zeiss microscope parts taken from differ
snt organs Of tho body, that tubercular bacill
we're scattered throughout tho entire system.
Dr.. b. p. Loomis was asked last evening for
the particulars OF the case. He did not wish at
nrst 70 say snythine about 1t, prsferrinR to re-
ssrve the facts for . medical paper. but he
finally consented to say this:
The patient was man. His name I can
not tell you His case was hopeless from the
beginning. He was patient Of DE- Janeway's,
Who had pronounced him beyond recovery. Yet
treatment, and I consented. OF that fact I
took care to have two or three witnesses. He
Vss frst inooulated on Dec. 2S. and for three
o four weeks hs showed marked improvement
esnerally. but not especially In his lungs. Tho
doses Of lymph were quito small not more than
ene-uusrter or one.haH q miligramme Of o,
lpsr cent solution. The patient left his bed
aAd walked about the ward. On Jan. 10. I be-
hsve Il was. he was seized with fever and began
70 expsetorats blood. Lymph treatment was
suspended at once and the usual means were
taken to make his few remaining days as easy
y possiblA He died on Jan 29, and . Coroner
Was summoned No. do not desire to say who
the Coroner was He was an old friend. and
moving that publicity was not desired he has
probably not mentioned the case. It was not
nsoessary to call public attention to tho au-
topsy. % the cause Of death was consumption.
"On the question whether the lymph scstters
,hs b, cilN throueh the body. - Prof. virehow
Sveeosts, there 10 now an Investigation going
on. The dSst rational prssumptdon II ths$ tho
sRscs OF the lymph n to scatter the bacilii. but
thsrs must also b considered the fact that
Shs mans case wss hopeless from the start.
9hs practical question to b decided is whether
ths lymph seattsrs the bacilu or whether the
hacill we're IN the various parts Of the system
bsture lymph was injected II IL certain that
IA the lungs, and. think. In tho spleen. On
ths WHOLE think the lymph was not tho
sssss Of the patients death"
Dr. Loomis added that twenty-four patients
~ Sadsr treatment with lymph In Bellevue.
~ thaS many Of them. even cases Of phthisis.
oo home and return TO the hospital for treat
ASpA Al but two Of tho cases have improved.
3hsts was another death Of . oonsumptive
Dataaus few days ago who had been under
Qoing treatment with lymph since the first OF
~ ysaS at Mt Sinai Hospital No attention
NAS paid TO Coroner Haply's bulletin request
hs that the ooronsrs Onnee should be notified
h the event Of the death Of any patient who
hsd been treated with lymph. Coroner
HAnly hss not Officially notified the hospitals
end other institutions where the lymph Ia used
All 1vuH nh Nan rka- No. Al> hall h>~ alA
essd ~Coronsrs cases." because hs 10 not yet
6ertain whether hs has the legal right
d.. HstnsmAn said last evening, There II
20 Esasen why We should have notified tho
Coroner Tho patient was . child under treat
nsnt By regularly qualified physicians was
dstsRminsd to have A autopsy any way. and
Dssleemed II myself. about week ago. while
oA0 physicians assisted. DR.. T. Mitchell
tsuddsn did the baotsriologiosl work. Death
~ due TO phthisis. For several days firmly
seievsd that the lymph had caused tho death
= The child. In reading. however. Q book on
Addison's disc ase. printed In 1875 I ind case
recorded exactly parallel to the one on which I
epsratsd. In the case recorded death was from
consumption. and. as that was long before
xochS lymph was heard OF. / have to conclude
3at ny patient died Of consumption. There
little doubt. however. that tho lymph short
ems the life Of patients who are In An advanced
stass OF consumption. They are too weak to
rally from the fsbrile rssction."
DR.. Heineman declined to divulge the nsme
the patient, saying thnt the relatives
prsisrTsd to have no mention made OF the
eass. There are over forty patients In Mt
Sinai Hospital undergoing lymnh treatment.
Many Of the patients under treatment 20 to
snsr homes and return two or three times .
week for incubation.
Another hospital whore death has claimed .
umph patient 10 tho Montefore Home for In
surabeA Dr.. Simon Bsruch Of 20 East Bix-
uetn street said last evening that the patient
wno died was man who mad been one OF tho
unt inoculated. While the patient had not
salned, neither had he perceptibly lost under
NO treatment He was carried of by .
esmorrhage. No autopsy was made. The
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