New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-02-05
DEATH AFTER TIE LYMPH INJECTION.
NETWORK PHYSICIANS SHOW A TENDENCY TO
CONCEAL SUCH CASES.

NETWORK PHYSICIANS SHOW IENDENOh ~
CONCEAL SUCH CASES.
1t is not surprising. perhaps to either physicians OF
laymen chat several patients have died III thls Guy
while under the Koch lymph treatment for tuDcfcui"'
diseases The action Of the hospital authOFlu'S ~
concealng from the public all knowledge Of iaV''
results in individual cases has been unfortunate III
that il opened the way for the publication Of seh'a
tional reports when the fact Of a number oil deauls
having occurred ultimately became known coca
sonsl deaths we're not entirely unexpected by the most
sangune Of the believers In the efficacy OF the new
remedy and II they had been heard of as they occur
red the details would have caused no such general
sccpticsm as Is likely prevail In consequence oi
publishing reports of deaths in bulk
A large number Of deaths occurred In Berlin ana
Vienna during the earlier stages Of the Koch treatment
in the German and Austrian hospitals. but the iac,S
were made known at once, coupled with an Official
statement that the patients died from the diseases for
which they being treated, not from the Se OK
the lymph. The American physicians prohted py inc
experience Of their professional brethren III BcIHh
at first by declining TO administer lymph to parents
suffering from consumption In its advanced stages
and for time there deaths among those under
treatment As substantial gains were made IN the
treatment of ncipient cases however the advi'abihy
OF the administration Of lymph to the more seriously
SICK for experimental purposes, If for no'hihg else
became apparent. and patients in whose systems
phthiss In a secondary stage had developer "ero
treated with small doses 50 far as can be learned
death has followed the Koch treatment only IN Cases
where the disease had seriously advanced. and III
which death was likely IN any case. The doctors
themselves have always acknowledged that in advanced
cases especially where cavities had formed In the
lungs the lymph as likely 10 hasten ia,a i'sul
10 retard It, , .
Professor Vrchow, of Berlin, who has declared that
the Koch lymph docs not destroy the tuDeTcuidf
baci but scaers them from the affected parts oi the
body 10 other organs, may find supporters IN this
country as a result If an autopsy upon patent WHO
died recently while under the lymph treatment III
acute phhiss at Bellevue Hospital In THIS case INC
coroner was Informed. and examination under the
z,ss microscope showed the presence of bac In the
kdneys liver and incstines 1t was regarded ~
reasonable TO suppose that the bacil had been driven
from the lungs the other parts, Just As Professor
yirchow had said but the autopsy showed that was
phthiss that caused death
4 child under treatment at the Mount Sinai Hospital
died week ago, and DR.. Henemann himself performed
the autopsy Designating the order OF the coroner 10
teu him Of such cases The autopsy showed that tho
patient had died Of phhss. The reason inc coroner
was not told Dr. Hcincmanp SAID YESTERDAY, Wa tia'
the child under the treatment % PiIinc pa, ~
clans and in the absence OF decision as 70 uie
coroner's right 10 demand notice Of snci dcatis 10
had done what he considered 10 be for the bet. -,
There has been one death at the MOitenore iioho
FOR IncuIables one at the German Hospital, ana ono
at the Charity Hospital In the later Gts@ inc pa. S
Dr. Conway performed the autopsy and CO Ihed tl.
death caused by pulmonary bnIhl's dne a.
Of the patient The MontefoIe Home was cam.eG D .,
A. hemorrlage. Details OF any KIND were refused a'
the German Hospital. , :. .. ,, a. O.,
At the Coroler's Office yesterday 1t was said that
comnc HOSPITALS to report the cases OF death Oh
patients under treatment with the lymph ana unless
Coroner and the Board Of Health most OF the inst
tuons will probably decline to report all such cases