The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-17
KOCHpS LYMPH.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 16-"Now that DR..
Koch has made public the ingredients
which enter into the composition OF his
famous lymph" said Surgeon General
Hamilton last night, we shall lmmedl-
Rteiv put in order our laboratory at the
New York marine hospital. The manu-
facture of the lymph at the laboratory will
be commenced Just as soon as Dr. Kill
gore, who has been in Berlin since Dec. -
last, returns If congress does what we
antici pate, it viii appropriate $4,000 in
the suuGry civil bill at this session, and
we viii commence the erection of a labora-
cory in this city and manufacture lymph
here also"
The CHEMICAL CURE.
DETROIT, Mich, Jan. l6.-Dr T. L.
Schurley, of this city, who recently an
nounced his discovery of a cure for con-
sumption. was today shown the dispatch
from Berlin relative to Prof Koch 5
curative lymph. Questioned as 10 the
difference between DIR. koch's and his
own discovery, be explained that his was
a chloride Of gold and sodium. My
remedy is unlike DIR. Koch's IA that IL
contains no organic matter. His Is an
albuminous lymph, while mine is entirely
composed OF chemicals. Mine, like his, Is
prepared in a solution OF glycerine, ana
contains Ii in about the same proportion.
Assuming that both remedies are capable
of curing consumption, / should decide
that mine possessed the advantage. An
organic injection is not so certain as
chemical one. As result of experiments
so far have become convinced that few
changes will have TO be made IN the
chemicals composing my remedy, put L
am also more thoroughly confident OF IT'S
ultimate success"
DIR. sHRADY's VIEW.
NEW YORK, Jan. l6-Dr. George F.
Sbradv. throughout the excitement con-
cerning the Koch discovery. mas, as editor
of the Medical Record and personally main
tanned a conservative attitude and has
himself used the fluid upon canceroIs
patients in the cancer hospital, Of which ne
is one Of the managers. But throughout
DR. Shradv has waited, keenly noting all
developments recorded, and neither CON
demning nor lauding; but in the forthcom-
ing issue of the Medical Record, of which
he is editor, DR. Shrady will discuss the
lymph and its results in an editorial. The
following are excerpts from advanced
proofs
Although the reactionary phenomena
nave been quite uniform they have proved
o be far from absolutely so. 1t IS IN no
pirit OF adverse criticism that such condl-
tions have been noted, but rather with a
feeling Of disappointment that earlier an
ticiDations have not been more fully real
lied We are being forced to the conclu-
sion that the value Of local and general re-
actions are more relative than positive,
and that many modifying circumstances
must necessarily be taken into account.
ave have as yet made no notable prog
Yess in ultimately curing tuberculosis, or
IN proving that the lymph acts differently
from anv other substance containing an
active albuminoid substance capable Of
producing systematic poisoning with local
manifestations.
1--WE must admit that the simple de-
struction Of the diseased tissue, even II
such can always be assured, is but part
Of a very complex process Of cure for tuber-
culosis diseases Something more is rr-
auired than mere injections and resulting
reactions.
AT best we can now get rid of the
bacill only in an indirect and not always
certain or complete manner by burylng
chem in decompOsing tuberculosis tissue
and sloughing them away IN the current
Of eXpectoration.
$50 far our main hopes for the perma-
nent cure Of lung diseases are based upon
the well-known efforts of nature TO rld
herself Of the decomposed products by ex-
eectoration, while the general strength OF
.he patient is heing maintained by the
most powerful tOuics and the most asslm-
liable nutrients. While thus the lymph
may aid us in one direction by hurrying
the initiative processes, we are driven in
the end 20 help ourselves by resortlng TO
the ordinary bnt old fashioned methods.
We have scare " gone beyond this at the
present stage of tur inquiry, awaiting, as
We are, the progress tnat the new method
II cure is quicker and surer that the old
me"
BERLIN, Jan. 16- 1t is officially announced
hat the public sale Of koch's lymph will
Jo0n be entrusted to druggists throughout
this city.