St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-09
The Local Patients Inoeulated
Seem to Progress Salts
faet0rily. 70
Dr. Dedolph Writes Interest.
ingly Concerning the
Discovery.
Labor Circles Preparing t,
Carry the War in an Off.
cial Africa.
Yesterdays Roundup Of the
Miscellaneous News OF
st. Paul.

DR.. Bean, under whose care the ex-
perimentS in the treatment with DR..
Koch's lymph are being carried on, re-
ports that all the inoculated patients
are progressing favorably. The symp-
toms developed in each case are pre-
ciSely as described III the GLOBES ar
ticle OH the subject last Tuesday MORN
ing.
DR.. Theo Dedolph received yester-
day the following letter from his
brother, DR.. George Dedolph, a staff
surgeon of the German army. The lat
ter has been granted a several months
leave OF absence and is now on his way
to America, bringing with him the
Koch lymph. DIR. Theo Dedolph, in
then introduce here the new Koch
method of treating tuberculosis. The
letter reads as follows.
The first fever of excitement which
spread throughout the world. shortly
after Koeh's famous discovery had been
made public, has now almost subsidized.
70 sift. cautiously, without eXaggera-
ton. but also without prejudice, what IS
true from what is hot true, Is at present
the question to be answered. | have
come to the conviction that at this early
time already with satisfaction we may
declare, Koch has given 10 the world q
grand Christmas present. There is no
learned man on the globe who does not
acknowledge Koch'S discovery, and who
does NOT gratefully look upon the Ber-
lin professor. The famous Prof. Pasteur
i'll Paris warmly congratulated Koch
upon his achievement. Richet, the
learned editor OF the Revue Scientifique.
expresses his Acknowledgement in the
following manner: To-day it is safe to
say that Koch has found an effective
remedy against tuberculosis Prof.
Lister, the immortal discoverer of anti
septic treatment of wounds. writes i'll
the Lancet: i saw things in Koch's lab
oratOry which, melting my admiration
to the utmost. at the same time created a
feeling of shame within me- as in our
country fEnglanO we are in SO many
respects so much behind our German
colleague; and | must confess that all
attacks upon Koch with reference to
what has been said about his remedy as
being kept Secret are liable to- grow out
solely from total ignorance of the beau
tiful character of this man. For my
part. am glad to know that we may
hopefully look forward towards the gioj
riouS end of reaching immunity Dr..
Podrazky, the Austrian surgeon of tho
general staff. said in Vienna: i went
to Berlin an enthusiast, and have rel
turned one. True. we must not demand
too much of the remedy. OF we will in;
cvitah1y come to unjust conclusions
about its Significance Prof. Bacelli,'
of Rome, says literally: The successes
which have been achieved through the
application of Koch's lymph ini
treating lupus are continuously
excellent ones; but 1 am also able
to state that those OF my patients
suffering front tuberculosis OF the iungS
are in a condition Of constantly .inereaSS
ing Improvement Without meaning to-
pronounce definite Judgment Mt this
early time, consider, nevertheless. the
cure of my patients as absolutely prob
able. Whosoever any longer dareS to
deny the phenomenal successes of
KOeh'S process is charlatan. no matter
how much he has been considered q
luminary up to this time
These" Mr.. Dsd0lph continues. fare
the conclusions come to by some of the
most famous European physicians.
Considering the preparation and manu-
facture of the fyniph, it is, for the pres
ent at least, conducted secretly by q
few adopts. Every one who under
. stands thoroughly the study of bacteri-
olegy will yield that Koch is right in
this. In preparing this remedy. whose
effect upon the body Is, no doubt,
extraordinarily powerful. the least
amount of ineXperience. negli-
gence or careiessnesS may lead
to the most terrible consequences.
which would bring the entire medical
process into discredit. Think what
;pf t,aG M To-
ure of the lymph were in the hands of
inexperienced people, spectators. or
falsifiers OF any sort. Many English,
Irish and American physicians have al
ready been cheated by the sale of coun-
terfeit lymph. The Berlin police are
after the cheats. Excepting few of
the larger hospitals in Boston and Phil
adelphia, no American doctor has as yet
been successful in obtaining the lymph.
When foreign physicians complain that
they are unable to get the lymph, they
are decidedly in the wrong. Up to this
hour the physicians in Germany itself
are in the same perplexing predicament.
1t is true that Koeh'S diseovery-aye,
every scientific INSTRUMENTATION
to humanity, but as long as the manu-
faeture and general distribution of the
remedy is, for obvious reasons, an
impossibility, it is but just that the
physicians of Germany are considered
first, because they seem to be nearer
right i'll obtaining lymph than non-Ger-
man doctors. Compfehending the mat
ter i'll this manner, there is no national
narrowness of mind whatever in it; it
rather corresponds to sense of business
in the human mind. Up to this time
the matters conducted in this way:
That no lymph is to be handed to a
physician who has not studied its appll-
cation in one Of those Berlin hospitals
which have been set apart for the Koch