The morning call., 1891-01-28
NO CHANGES NOTED.
Lymph Patients Mt the Hospital
Feel No Effects.
The Quantity to Be Increased Again To-Day.
Great Caution Being 0bserved-Three
New Patients Treated

The attending physicians at the City and
County Hospital were occupied during the
greater part of yesterday in watching the
condition of the five patients who were sub
jeeted to the Koch treatment on Monday y
morning Quite naturally the medical men
of the city are deeply interested in the re-
suit of the experiment and constant in
quiries are made as to the progress of the
subjects now under treatment. While some
are a little skeptical as to the ultimate re-
suit, there are others who REGARD the dis
covery rs the forerunner of revolution
in medical science. Both classes, how
ever, are equally interested and display an
equal anxiety for information.
When it became known yesterday that
the first injection had been productive of no
changes in the condition of any of the
patients the more increduous were in
clined TO conduct themselves In general
"I-told-you-so" sort of way, but the be-
levers in Professor Koch and his famous
lymph were not in any way discouraged,
and very readily attributed the lack of re-
suit to the smallness OF the quantity ad min
istered.
NO SYMPTOMS APPEAR.
As explained by DIR. Hirshfelder on Mon
day, at the time of the fir st experiment, the
administration of the lymph is ordinarily
followed within from four to ten hours by a
marked change in the condition of the
patient The usual symptoms are sharp
rise in temperature and an acceleration OF
the pulse rate, accompanied also, as rule,
by a feeling of depression in the chest. AS
none OF the patients treated developed any
OF the foregoing symptoms 1t was attributed
entirely to the extremely small dose admin
istered, and preparations were made to in
crease it accordingly.
The second in Jectlon was made, and, like
the preceding one, Its effect was very much
as If similar quantity OF cold water had
been used instead. The lymph went ca
reering wildly through the veins of the
subjects, carrying, 1t was supposed, dire
Consideration into the stronghold of the
deadly bacilii, but for some unaccountable
reason the bacilli refused to be discounted
and quietly pursued the even tenor of their
way. A watchful eye was kept for the
predicted symptoms, but no material change
was noted beyond those common to the
ordinary sufferer from consumption. They
went about as usual without the slightest
inconvenience, and positively refu sed to
acknowledge To any Of the sensations which
are supposed to occur to the patient who
has had the mysterious lymph pumped into
his system.
QUINN TAKES IT EASY.
Anthony Quinn, whose case is regarded
as a peculiarly favorable one for such an
porch opening from the ward in which he
Is located and smoked his pipe in the most
pEoyokingly cool manner IN the world.
Apparently unconscious of the fact that
the eyes OF half million people were upon
him, he pulled away as unconcernedly as
if Professor Koch was a myth and his
famous elixir but the Intangible outgrowth
OF distempered dream. True his tenn
peraturs and pulse rate Huctuated from
time to time, but not suffi iently to warrant
ftanNfs 10 In of lN- h
and was due more likely, SO the physi-
clans say, to the ordinary changes that
come over a consumptlve patient as the day
wears ON.
The injection was made at $50 o'clock in
the morning, ana the following is his
record for the day up to 8 O'clock in the
evening: $3.50 o'clock-temperature IS 8,
pulse rate 90, respiration 50: 3 o'clock
temteratura 99.5. pulse rate ia, respiration
-; o'clock-temperature 9S. pulse rate 80.
respiration 80; o'clock-temperature 9S.4,
pulse rate 9S. respiration "a.
To-day the quantity will again be doubled,
and, if necessary, still further increased
with each injection until The desired result
IS reached. This is done, it is said, in order
to preserve the most extreme caution, and
the physicians claim that the quantity used
yesterday was smaller, even, than that used
in the first experiments in the hospitals at
Berlin.
THE NORMAL CONDITION.
In order that the public generally may
fully understand the nature of the changes
as they take place, DIR, Bradbury, the resi-
dent physician at the hospital, stated last
night that normally the temperature of the
human body is about 9S, while the pulse
rate of healthy man should be about 20
beats aud his respiration Is or 19 innala-
tons to the minute In tie case of Quinn,
it will be observed that at the time of the
Injection his temperature was 9S5, pulse
rate 90 and respiration 30. This Is not un :
common in cases of consumption, owing to
the fact that fever is nearly always present
to a greater or less degree. This feyerish
condition is usually more pronounced as
evening approaches. For this reason the
changes noted in him are not necessarily
attributal to the operation of the lymph.
James Holland. Charles Hufmiller and
George Donnely were also treated yesterday
i'll addition to those mentioned heretofore.
No change was noted in them, and the only
complete record kept was that of Quinn.