Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1891-06-26
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ExpseDm~sss WIN SpanIsh IN d Dssaia
asa with Osas's DissA ~ Paris.
The agitation 10 medical scisncs q.
tendant upon the revelation Of Kochis
a~iscoveries has resulted In two parlicu-
lariy important series Of experiments 10
tho treatment Of t~ubsrculosiA The
moro important Of the two was dis
eussed BY Prof Oscar Liebreich, N. D.,
The originator Of il, In Berlin, on one Of
the last evenings in February. The
rooms Of the medical society, whore
Prof. Liebreich explained his course Of
treatment, we're crowded with Ger.
many's most famous doctors long before
hs began his lecture. His remedy, he
q ono stated, WIS Spanish fiy.
Immediately after Koch published his
6rst article concerning "Kochine." Prof.
Liebreich began his experiments with
animals. His frat human patient wss
On old man with an ulcer near the base
Of his throat. The first injection Of .
liquid preparation Of Spanish fly was
n e-iftieth of . mil!igram. The injec-
tons we're continued every two days,
and q the end Of 6 week the patient
was greatly relieved. The first iniec.
ton alone suficed to render his cough
easier.
Some two weeks later Prof. Liebreich
applied the remedy to tuberculosis. The
injections were made in the back and
varied in size between 1-1.OOO and
lilo, 600 Of o gram. Almost all patients
thus treated nee in every two days
very 70 showed symptoms Of recovery.
There was no feverish reaction. The
speech became fuller and stronger, and
swallowing was much easier. The gen.
sral appearance Of every patient i'm.
proved percsptibly. The irritation
caused by the injections, Prof Liebreich
stated, produced an unusual secretion
of water Of the blood, which is supposed
to be deadly to bacteria.
At the close of Liebreich's lecture
Prot. DR.. Fraenkel and DR.. Paul Hey
mann brought forward several patients
who had partly recovered under the
treatment III question. DR.. Fraenkel,
moreover, exhibited one patient who
had ceased to expectorate, 30 that the
examination for bacteria had become
impossible.
The School of Medicine at Nantes has
for some time treated consumption with
goats blood, which is supposed to pre-
vent the development Of bacilli DR..
Bernheim began . series Of thorough
experiments with this course of treat.
ment in Paris early in February. His
idea was not that he could cure tuber.
culosis Immediately and directly, but
that he could 80 renew the blood that
the microbes could be thrown OF. Feb
ruary II he treated Ave women after the
Nantes method. All bore the process
Of TRANSMISSION without suffering any
apparent inconvenience. At the time Of
the operations he exhibited two men
and o yonng girl upon whom he had
been experimenting.
February 8, he said, she had been
unable to climb steps or to walk more
than half block. She ate little, and
slept only about an hour each night.
After one week of treatment by trsnsfu.
sion, with 200 grams as q maximum
dose, she could go up stairs, walk or.
binary distances, slept we'll, and ate
quite heartily. One of the men had
shown equally encouraging symptoms Of
recovery. The other felt better, but
still coughed badly. And even the
goats. DIR. Bernheim added, had suffered
no great injury from the operations.