The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1891-02-05
lRGVGLREY ON DR. KOCH.
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Enron CImoucLE-In response 70
your request to express my views on
Doctor Koch's consumption cure will
nay, ! do not see how any intelligent
opinion can BE- expressed until the in
gredieuts entering into the composition Of
he lymph ars made known. Doctor
Kqohs Il b tFue, hat given some idea Of
what the lymph contains, but has not
fully explained; for instance be says,
"And certain mineral salts" but does
not name them. Il IL all important
70 know whether the salts referred to are
certain Inorganic salts Of the blood or
polsonous mineral salts that do not be-
long 10 the human organism. OF course,
this important information must be CIV
en- IN time. But ! am free to say, II the
lymph proves . cure Of consumption or
any other disease and every one who loves
his iallOW men will earnestly pray It may
hEin DO % BY supplying deficiencies
and not by destroying micro organisms
. under whatever name they may Be
known.
I believe the tubercle bacillus 10 be
q natural product Of decayiHg tissue,
and that the decay Is caused by q ''laek
Of some constituent Of the blood at the
part haoeted." The words In quotation
marks are from no less authority than
Prui. Rudolph VirchOW.
From q letter received from d.. Walker
ofLond0n afsW days since quote the
iolloWing'T have during the past year
cured lupus and cancer by injecting Q
solution Of the inorganic salts with
hYpodernlc syringe and II Doctor KOch's
lymph proves curative the world will yet
Learn that the tubeFcle bacilli in its cul-
ture medium d not the cure but the min
eral salts 20 VAgusly limited 1t and that
thosp salts are the very constituents Of
the human blood and that the cure Il
made neither BY setting up q symptom
oidisease nor yet the laws Of ''Similia,"
but like 10 like or BY supplying that
which islAeking."
But 10 return 10 the much SlGndorod
paeiih' no one ior . moment DeheVes
that maggots are the cause Of decay in
meat, but the natural result. Place q
maggOt on . piece Of treah meat and
hcuris up and dies At once; and thus lie
ispFOdueed Or destroyed, according 10 the
envinonmenis' on down to the most
minute iniusolla.
me FrlVy Medical Councillor Gullan'
Of Weimar' In bic work; The Dis
eaas During the Firlt year Of Lii" says
IN regard 70 diPhtheria' The iungi' are
NOT the disease itself, but only guests
out o. the air." These ind q eongenial
sohin ne deoomposing organic substance,
J. e. ne diphtheretie emulation, where
they npidly increase. These fungi germs
DO adhere 70 an oxudAtion that has left
~ vital eOurSe, but not to mucus mem
brane IN healthy function. Pasteur, the
geat French scientist, says: Il am IN
able 70 say whether Tx 'eeilh produces
The disease Or The disease the baeiili.p
But other eminents scientists have fully
shown that al micro-organlsms under
WhaieVer head they may be elassed ap-
pear when conditions are favorable, and
that such conditions are produced BY
some change uniavOrable TO our cell
structure, heat cold electrical atmospheric
eonditioas. acting through the pneumo-
nn1lFic nnrVn and TINA dintuFhin9 the