Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-01-15

The Professor Accounts for its In.
grrdient. aud Sheets.

AhR
BERLIN, Jau. ij.-PrOfessor lSOoh's
report, Issued today as to the iugrcd.
tents which compose his lymph, says
that II consists ~ glycefine and tx.
tract from the pure cultivation Of the
tuhefclc lacilli.
Professor Koch says: So far as
have been able to review the state.
trcnts published and the communica.
tons received by letter, my Indications
have been fully and completely con.
irmeI. The general consensus Of
opinion IA that the remedy has specific
effect upon the tuborcnlar tissues
aud II therefore applicable a.
an extremely delicate aud sure
agent for discovering the latent
aud diagnosing tile doubtful tubcrcul.
osis processes. Regarding tile curative
gu soi the RENE ~. fcpotiangioc.
Despite the comparatively short dur,.
ton Of u. applications. many patients
have shown more OT Ices pronounced
improvement. II hns heun uiilfmul Ia
not few cases that even cure hn, been
established. Standing quite 10y Itself
l. thn assertion that tie fUmedy may
not only he dangerous IN cases which
nave advanced too fat, a fact which
may forthwith be- conceded. but also
that " actually pfpmDiea the tubeicu-
llsis, the process being, therefore, Ia.
Juriuus. During the past six weeks,
I myself had anopportuuily N buuglng
together fuuher eXpefieucco tu1ching
the curative effects aud diagEnatic ~.
plicatiOu NJ the remedy Va the eases VI
about $50 sufferers from tuberculosis VI
most varied type. Ia this city and Ia
the MO,bit Hospital. | eau ouly fny
that everything have latter
lyseun concurs with nay previous OBJ
srfvatiuu.
Now, after sufficient conGrmatory
evidence the importance Of tic rem
edy having Just been proved, my next
task ~ 10 extend my study OF tie
remedy beyond the field where II has
hitherto beon applied and, II possible,
to apply the pr uciple underlying the
discovery a. other diseases" Then
follows n lengthy description OF the
way h. arrived at
THE DISCOVERY oF THE REMEDY
lie says. o1f a healthy Guinea pig be
inoculnied with pure cultivation
of tue German kuliur Of tuber-
Gle baoilll, the wound caused
10y the incubation mostly closes
over with sticky matter aud Ap.
pear In it, early days to heal. After
Ten or fourteen days, a hard nOdulo
presents itself which il soon breaking
| from an ulceratug sore, which con.
tinues until the animal dies. quite n
/ different condition Of things occurs
when the Guinea pig IA already suffer
/ lug from tuberculosis inOcllated. II
such animal a small iud,ntntion az.
sumcs tbs same sticky covering NJ the
| beginning, bat no nOdulc forms.
On the day following or the second
day after the irOcculaticu the place
where the lymph II injected becomes
hard ami assumes darker color which
II not confined 10 the incubation
spot, but spreads. In few days II be-
comes manifest that the skin thus
changed, becomes necrotic, finally
falling Oh, leaving n hat liberation,
which usually heals rapidly and per-
mancntly.
THIS EFFECT
IL no. exclusively pro iucei with llv'
Ing tubercular bacclli, but j. also
observed with dead baccili, the result
being the same whether the haecil
are killed by somewhat prolonged
application OF a temperature OF boiling
heat or by means Of certain chemicals
Tuberculosis Of Guinea pigs are KILLED
by Injection Of very small quantities Of
diluted cultlvntlons. In met, within
six TO fof,y.cight hours according Ia
the strength Of the dose. An Injection
which Is not sufficient 10 produce III,
death Of an animal may cause extend
ell necrosis 10 the skin In the vi
clnity OF the place OF inycc'
Ion. II tho dllution be stlll iur.
thor diluted, the animals inocula,cd
remain alive aud u noticeable improve
mcnt Of their condition soon super
vencs. II the injections b. continued
NJ Intervals OF from one 10 two daysi
the ulcora,lng incubation wound ue'
comes smaller anl soon scars over. The
size Of the swollen Emphatic glands
arr reduced, the bO ly becomes better
uourifhcd and the morbid process
ceascs, gnlcss Il has gone too Tar. In
which case the animal pcrishrB nom
exhaustion. liy this means basis Of
tho curative process against tubvrcu'
losla has been established"