Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-18
pRoF. KOCH Is YEARS A pocroR.
Hts Statements About the Lymph compo-
sition VariousIy Critieiscd--Terri-

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Hts Statements About the Lymph Compo-
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BILE Severity of the Weather.
Copyrighted. 1921, By the New York Associated
BERLIN, January 17.--Professor Koch win
return to Berlin in March after no makes
tour OF Italy and Egypt. Upon his return
the Koch Institute will be formally opened.
Yesterday was the twenty -6fth anniversary
OF his receiving bis diploma as a doctor.
and be was the recipient of large number
of congratulatory letters and messages.
He has probably reached the climax of his
career. There is distinct disappointment
over the defective character Of his state
ment regarding the composition Of lymph,
especially the studied reticence concerning
some parts OF the process~of production.
KyATvE AND OBSCURE.
Experts in analysis say that his declara-
ton that the remedy is glycerlne extract
reveals nothing, while the description Of
the lymph which follows seems purposely
eyasive and obscure. The discussion pro-
ceeds with renewed activity as TO the value
of the discovery. The weight of German,
Austrian. and English medical opinion
supports the belief in the healing virtues
Of the lymph. Professor Virchow is under
stood 10 have modified his unfavorable
view. Professor Fraenkel has exhibited
before the Berlin Medical Society SIX cases
Of pulmonic tuberculosis and lupus, all of
which are distinctly progressing towards a
cure.
IN FIRST STAGES.
He also reports the cases OF ffty-two
patients taken at the first stages Of the
disease, most of whom are recovering.
Professor Fraenkel is averse TO treating
patients in advanced stages Of the disease.
Professor SonnebuTg reports favorably on
the cases of several patients in the Moabite
Hospital who were suffering with advanced
phthisis. DIR. Rosenthal, Of the Berlin
Dermatology Sociale, upholds the supreme
value of the lymph in cases Of lupus. The
debate in this society elected the opinion
from several doctors who favor the use OF
the lymph in leprosy.
sCRoFULoUs DISEASES.
Doctors in Stuttgart report its success
full use IN scrofulous diseases Of the eye.
Advices from Vienna state that the physi-
clans there praise Professor koch's genius
as an observer. They are surprised at tho
simplicity of the discovery.
HOSTILE FRENCH DOCTORS.
The French doctors who are hostile TO
the remedy lay stress on Virshow's sugges-
tion that the injecting fluid is apt TO
spread tubercles. DR.. Peters reports that
in twenty-one posi-mortem examinations he
found that the lympth, instead of being
beneficial. had led to an extensive increase
of tuberculosis deposits. Evidence from
every quarter when compared demon
strate that though the remedy has failed
in many. cases 1t has an undoubted e.
fective ameiorating effect in early phthi-
sis, tubercles Of the larynx, and lupus.
REACTION IN LEPRosY.
Leading Russian doctors. Professor
Munich, and Dr. Peterson. have expert
mented with the lymph in leprosv and re-
port q characteristic reaction. The wide
spread prevalence of leprosy in the Baltic
provinces has obliged the Riga Municipal
Court 10 vote sum TO establish an asylum
and hospital which will be opened in
August. when the Koch remedy will have
an ample trial.
ANOTHER SEVERE SNOW.
Snow has again fallen in East Prussia,
South Germany, and Austria-Hungsry.
The severity of the frost and the Wilderness
of the area affected are greater than ever
before chronicled. Railroad traffic is
greatly delayed. Over 1000 men are en-
ployed in clearing the streets of Berlin.
The Tramway Company in Vienna employ
4 900 men to clear their tracks. The Aus
trian railways are partly blocked. Large
stocks of provisions are snow bound and
the prices of food have consequently ad-
vanced. Reports from Vienna say that
railroad communication with Temesvar,
in Hungary, has been stopped owing to the
great depth of the snow to the northward
of that place.
The ports of Lubbock and Rostock are
again closed by ice, and Kiel is shut in by
drift-ice. At Hamburg the cold has be-
come more intense and the river is full of
drift-ice, which is greatly increasing the
difficulty of navigation. Bremerhayen is
in q fair way. There is much drift-ice
there, but it presents no obstacle 10 navi-
cation.
AN OPEN EXPORT BOUNTY.
The committee of the Reichstag on the
sugar bill, after rejecting the proposal to
raise the consumption tax to Is marks per
100 kilOgrammes instead Of 20, as proposed
by the Government, to-day voted an open
export bounty of mark 90 pfennigs for an
unlimited time, instead of / mark for o
fixed period as proposed in the original
bin. The Government declares that it will
not accept the changes made by the com
mittee. Yesterdays majority against the
of the grain duties does not alter
the Governments resolution to modify the
extreme protection policy which 1t has
hitherto followed.
Won CAPRTvI STRENGTHENED.
Chancellor Won Caprivi has the assu-
rance of the Centre party that although
conservative as regards the
abolition Of duties they will support a
treaty with Austria reducing the tariff on
%, q vporka IN nfanUIua NagfnT6nV'S
vote strengthened the Chancellor's hands
in dealing with Austria TO obtain conces-
sions in exchange for the reduction on
grain.
THE GOLD STANDARD.
An official dinner by Herr Miguel, the
Minister of Finance, which was attended
by the Emperor, Chancellor Won Caprlvl,
and several members of Ministry and
twenty members of the Reichstag, was
rendered notable by the free utterances of
the Emperor concerning bimetallism. Ger
MANY. he said, could not accept double
currency. The question had been
definitely settled in favor of the gold
standard. The trading nations OF the
world, he declared, would ere long agree
upon the universal adoption of gold.
During the four hours the Emperor was
at dinner, besides expressing him.
self on the currency question he talked at
great length concerning educational and
dramatic subjects.
IuDICULEs THE RUMoR.
The Vossche Zei'1ng and other papers re-
fer to the reports that the Emperor intends
TO take the initiative in a European dis
armament. The Emperor's circle ridicules
the rumor as tho rehash of an old fiction.
TESTIMONIAL OF GRATITUDE.
The committee of Deascher Vocin EiSers-
Iufe1,ten,e has waited upon Phelps, the
American Minister at the Legation. Herr
Ihielen, the manager of the Phoenix Iron:
Works. and Herr Ruhort, the chairman of
committee, referred to the recent visit of
the members of the society TO America IN
response 10 the invitation ofsthe Institute
of Mining Engineers. They said they were
everywhere and were over:
wheimed with hospitality. They would
never forget the pleasant instructive DAYS
that they had passed in the United States.
Desiring TO give some tangible sign OF
their gratitude they asked Mr.. Phelps to
be the medium to present three silver
goblets to Kirchoff, RAYMOND. and Shinn,
upon whom devolved the hospitality &C
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