Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-01-16
FESTIVE BACILLUS.
Prof. koch's Cruel Flank Move
ment on Him.
GREAT MEDICAL SECRET DIvULGED

Mix Him with Glycerine and Make an
Extract of Him and He Il ''Pizer" to His
Fellows, aud No Wonder-The professor
Tells of His Experiments and Discov-
cries That Others May Assist in the
development of the Remedy-A Theory
of the Lymph's Action.
BERLIN, Jan. l6--The ingredients OF
Koch's celebrated lymph were made pub
lie yesterday by the professor, in a long ar
ticle In which he discusses the effect of the
lymph and its success where administered,
together with his labors in producing his
remarkable curative agent. He says that
he desires to extend the field of the rem
edy, and to do that those who use it should
have full knowledge OF its ingredients.
He then recifes his experiments on Gui-
nea pigs and notes great difference be
tween the effect oi,inoculation OF u healthy
pig and one thai i. suffering from tuber-
culosis
II Kills Healthy Guinea Pigs.
On this subject he says: III a healthy
guinea pig be inoculated with the pure
cultivation of German kultur of tu1ercie
bacilli, the wound caused by the inOcula-
tion closes over with sticky matter, and
appears. in its early days. to heal Only
after ten to fourteen days hard nodule
presents itself, which. soon breaking,
forms an ulcerating sore, which continues
until the animal dies. Quite different
condition OF things occurs when a guinea
pig already suffering from tuberculosis is
inoculated AN animal successfully .inocu
lated from four to six weeks before is best
adapted for this purpose In such an an
ima the small indentation assumes the
same sticky covering at the beginning, but
no nodule forms
The Sick Pig Gets Well.
On the contrary, on the day following,
or the second day after the incubation,
the place where the lymph is injected
shows a strange change. 1t becomes hard
and assumes darker coloring, which is
not confined TO the incubation spot, but
spreads to the neighboring parts until it
attains diameter of from 05 to cent?
meter In a few days it becomes more and
more manifest that the skin thus
changed is neerotie, finally falling off,
leaving fat liberation which usually
heals rapidly and permanently without
any cutting INTO the adjacent Emphatic
glands.
Experiments and Conclus ions.
During further expert ments the pro-
fessor found that killed pure civilizations
of tubercular baeilli, after rinsing in water
might be injected in great quantities
under healthy guinea pigs skin without
anything occurring beyond local suppura-
ton. Then after further NEGOTIATIONS of
pigs he established the basis Of a curative
process against tuberculosis. But against
the practical application of such dilutions
of dead tubercle bacili there presented
itself the fact that the tubercle bacilli are
not absorbed at the incubation point, nor
do they disappear in another way. but for
long time remain unchanged, and en-
gender greater or smaller suppurativs
foci
Conditions Necessary to Success.
Anything, therefore. intended to exer-
else healing effect on the tuberculous
process must be a soluble substance
which would be lixiviated to certain ex-
tent by the fluids of the body floating
around the tubercle bacilli, and be trans
ferred in fairly rapid manner 70 the
juices of the body, while the substance
producing suppuration apparently remains
behind in the tubercular bacilli or dis
eCAfIS pdA SAtNig LUG UDlS lulpOE-
tant point was therefore to induce outside
the body the process going on inside, if
possible, and to extract from the tubercu.
lar bacilli alone the curative substance.
The Great Medical Secret.
This demanded time and toll, until l
finally succeeded, with the aid of 40 or
50 per cent. solution of glycerine, in OBJ
tanning an effective substance from the
tubercular bacilli. With the fluid so Oh
tanned | made further experiments on ami
mails, and finally on human beings. These
fluids were given to other physicians to
enable then TO repeat the experiments
The remedy which is used in the new
treatment consists of a glycerine extract
derived from the pure cultivation of tuber.
Gle bacilli- Into the simple extract there
naturally passes from the tuberclar bacilli.
besides the effective substances, all the
other matter soluble in 50 per cent. of
glycerine, Consequently it contains
certain quantity of mineral salts, coloring
substances and other unknown extractive
matter the removal of which he does not
consider OF any advantage in practice. be-
cause the substances so eliminated are uu-
essential for the human organism.