Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-21
KOCH THEORY FALSE
DR.. George D. Barney Says His
Experiments Disprove
Koch's Assertions.
tuberculosis Found to Be Trans
Missile From Animals to
Humans.
The Result Of the Test on Miss
King is Given in
Detail.

Barney, of Brooklyn, who came into no.
| toriety, not all of which was welcome,
last fall upon publication of the fact
| that he had inoculated young woman
| with the bacilli of tuberculosis for the
purpose of disproving another mans
Theory, said that he had succeeded
In his purpose, that he had dis
proved a theory promulgated by Pro-
fessor Koch, of Berlin, and that the
young woman subject of his predatory
| experiments still lived. and was In good
| for some of his representations last fall.
some persons who thought that ne
might present the young woman at a
later date as wholly free from tubercu-
losis, asking what proof he had that the
COW from which the infection was taken
was tuberculosis cow. DIR. Barney had
in his office yesterday original aftida-
Wits, which he exhibited attesting vari-
Gus stages of the progress of his expert
ment, with letters from other physicians
to whom he had sent his patient for IN
dependent examinations.
DR. Barney referred to Professor
Koch's statement in London last sum-
mer of his belief that animal and hui
man tuberculosis are separate and dis
tinct diseases. and are not intercom-
municable, and said that the German
scientists opinion seemed to him I'M
. III ,,.la ha "a Hofprf1fnp6
to test it. He then related the circum-
stances attending the incubation of the
COW, which have been printed in the
newspapers, and the subsequent
incubation of Miss Emma III. King with
tuberculosis germs from that animal.
The COW was inoculated with culture OF
tuberculosis bacilli from two of the doc
tors patients who were in the last
stages The COW was injected Oct 20,
and Oct. 90 signs of infection became
manifest, the temperature rising rapid
ly. Nov. IL the animal began to cough.
and from then to the end she became
worse, emaciation being rapid and we'll
marked before death. Nov. IA the
Brooklyn board of health took charge of
the COW, and after tuberculin test
showing tuberculosis she was killed on
Nov. 81.
Miss King was inoculated with Gull
ture of tubercle germs from one of the
auxiliary glands of the COW Nov. 9 with
a fluid drachm. which was deeply In
jected with long needle into the apex
of each lung. She was seized with a
chill in a few hours. and nothing more
disclosed itself for eleven days. From
Nov. 20 she continued to grow slowly
worse. lost weight and strength and
had a hacking cough, which eventually
brought up a secretion, and on Dec. 8
she expectorated some blood. She had
lost less than eight pounds when treat
ment began" the doctor said, and he
gave clinical report Of her progress
thence to health from the first stage
of tuberculosis"
Treatment began on Dec. g." he said,
land on Jan II all symptoms had dis
appeared, her weight was 125 pounds,
temperature 1914. pulse 6S, respiration 16
and free and clear. Her physical condi-
ton was perfectly normal.
"Al! future experiments in tuberculo-
Sis if properly conducted, will substan-
tiate my conclusion that Professor Koch
is wrong in saying that tuberculosis is
and bovine animal"
The documents exhibited by Dr. Bar
ney included two affidavits by Miss
King, attested by Gustave Girard, COM
missioner of deeds, No 50, declaring
first that she voluntarily submitted her
self to be inoculated with tuberculosis
from COW by DR.. Barney, and that she
had been so inoculated.
DIR. Knopf, under date OF Dec. s, after
examining Miss King. who was sent to
him under an assumed name for the
purpose of obtaining an unbiased opin-
ion, writes that the patient was suffer-
ing from incipient pulmonary tubercu-
losis.
DR.. A. H. Smith, another well-known
physician. on Dec. 9 also announced
that Miss King had tuberculosis. Then.
on Jan Ia, 1902 the interesting conclud-
ing letter from DR.. Austin Flint came,
stating that he had made careful ex-
animation and found absolutely no evil
dence of pulmonary disease.
The missing link was supplied in an
other affidavit of Miss King. acknow-
lodged before Mr.. Girard. that 1t was
she. under the name Of Miss King, who
submitted herself to the examinations
referred to In the letters from Doctors
Knopf, Smith and Flint.
DR.. Barney holds that Dr. Flint's let
ter describing his examination of Miss
King sustains his (Barney's) contention
that Dr. Koch's theory is wrong.