Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-25
WONDERS OF KOCHINE.

the eminent physician, who has for 26 years
been connected with the great Alexian
Brothers Hospital of Chicago, and who is
now chief of the first medical department
in that institution, has been making a series
of remarkable experiments with DR.. Koch's
remedy for consumption.
As a result of DR.. Seifert's careful and
| patient work, kochine is the accepted spe-
| cifc in the hospital for tuberculosis of the
| lungs and an antidote for the excretious
| poison of tubercular bacilli Moreover in
all the cases reported by him there are
strong evidences that the effect of kochine
is not Immediately exhausted, but remains
in the circulation ready to combat and de-
stroy fresh invasions of the bacilli and their
| poisonous eXcretions.
Discharged in Five Weeks.
One of DR.. Seiffert's patients was a stable
hand who had been sick for long time aud
on that account had no regular income He
| was received at the hospital on March 23
1891. The medical examination demon
strated the existence of an(affection of both
lungs, with cavity of medium size in the
right lobe of the lung. He had fever, a
cough, purulent expectoration and there
were numerous hacilli. Two days later he
received his first injection of one-tenth
milligramme. He received thereafter three
injections per week, and after stay of five
weeks he was in such an improved condition
that on May . he was discharged from the
hospital as convalescent
Another case was that Of poor girl who
was compelled to support herself by toll
ing eight hours day at a sewing machine.
She had been suffering for Is months and
when she applied for treatment her exami-
nation showed an affection of both lung
apices, severe cough, profuse purulent ex-
pectoration, complicated with severe ca
tarrhal affection of the mucous membrane,
with numerous baeilii. She was in q verv
emaciated condition, being known among
her fellow workers as skinny" Her ap-
petite was defective and her weight only sc
pounds.
Cured in Spite OF Bad Air.
This girl was subjected to the kochine
treatment, although unable to become an
inmate of the hospital She therefore re-
mained during the period of her treatment
in the same miserable surroundings as be-
fore, with no sanitary improvements in her
dwelling; no pure, fresh air; no better food;
no rest; but, on the contrary, her usual
daily toll rendered more severe by the fact
that she was obliged to go six miles back
ward and forward to the doctors office three
times week, the time spent in so doing
having to he made up by additional hours
of work at her machine. In spite of these
unpromising CIRCUMSTANCES the treatment,
which began on June "a, was discontinued
on February 90 of the next year as being no
longer necessary. Her weight on the last
named date was 124 pounds and her CON-
plexion had become ROSY.
Another Interesting case was that of a
farmer of Indiana, who, ten years ago, had
suffered from night sweats and weighed
then only 115 pounds. Two years later he
removed to Western Kansas for the purpose
of improving his health, where he made
appreciable gains. Several months, how
ever, before he came 20 Chicago for treat
ment his disease began again to develop.
The medical examination showed chronic
lung catarrh, and on the left side cavity
of considerable size located between the
second and third ribs.
Well in Half Month.
He had violent cough, with much puru-
lent expectoration and many tubercular
bacilli. He had but little appetite and was
generally run down. On July 10 he re-
celved his first injection and on August he
left Chicago to return home, cured and
we'll man, as he himself said. He had then
increased 10 pounds in weight and had the
appearance of a man in vigorous health and
younger by ten years
Through the courtesy of DIR. Kaufman.
who himself has rendered the most valuable |
services in determining the efficaclousness |
of the use Of kochine in the Alexian |
Brothers Hospital as DR.. Seiffert's assist |
ant, visit was made to the consumption |
wards and the patients themselves uues- |
IN ba ~ >,
One inmate was found eagerly devouring |
piece of bread and sausage. He was |
sitting on his bed, fully dressed, and, |
from anything In his appearance, no one |
would have hesitated to employ him for a /
days work without references. He said |
that he had only been in the hospital four |
weeks, and that he had had three severe |
hemorrhages within a short time of each |
other before he had commenced the treat
ment, and had not been able to make the |
slightest eXertiOn. Dr. Kaufman stated |
that he would probably be discharged the |
next day as convalesceut. There were |
others that were making equally satisfac- |
tory progress, and who promised soon to be |
able to go out into active life once more.
Nature Alone Can Heal.
Nature itself, if fconditions are sufficiently |
favorable, can effect cures of tuberculosis |
OF the lungs. InlS TACT had been known to /
science through the instrumentality of dis |
section long before the DAYS of Dr. Koch, |
and is simply the process with which anv |
observant man is familiar-nameIy, either |
the expulsion of foreign substance from |
the body or the surrounding of it with a |
cicatricous tissue, by which it is cut off |
from all contact with the circulation and |
thus rendered innocuous. Kochine as
sists IN these processes and rem
ders them independent of favorable exter-
nal surroundings which the great masses
OF the victims of the hvdra-headed monster
disease are unable to obtain. The effect of
kochine is to eliminate the virus of the
disease in the blood, thus rendering it bet
ter fitted to nourish the body and prevent
that waste which is the invarlable attend
ant upon the disease, while at the same
time it provides the necessary surplus Of |
blood required at the spot of at
tack and also aids in tine actual
slaughter of the live bacilli. And in
addition to the general effect on the charac-
ter and quantity of the blood it has the
peculiar quality common to other antidotes.
of seeking tie location of the particular
poison it is intended to combat, and thus,
by the increased vitality at that point, it
aids in the infammatory process necessary
to form the lnclosing tissue. These results
have, heretofore, been considered as only
possible when the conditions of pure mount
ain air or ocean sephyrs combined with
the most nutritious OF foods and genial sur
could be realized.