New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-08
KoCH'S THEORY UPSET.
roS REHRING LAUDED.
Bor;ns Tuberculosis Dangerous to
Man, Says French Congress.
eEy French cssi. to III. Trieune@

o1.,v-rs, 1903 sz The Tribune Association,
p..s- oetl THE international tuberculosis
ur..s that closed its sessions at 4:S0 o'clock
"a. .f+ernoop I'm the Grand Palais of the
,-..r,rx F-lvsees. received a message from Presi-
s.r. Roosevelt, communicated by DR.. Lawrence
rr;.t senior American delegate, suggesting that
,ha next meeting Of the congress be held at
washington and it was voted unanimously that
x+ session of the congress be held in the
United States IN 1908.
THE three American delegates. Drs Lawrence
r7:ok Barton Jacobs and Surgeon Henry G.
Rever II. S. N, are well satisfied with the re-
.u,ts of the congress. especially concerning the
,-svsntive sanitary measures proposed for all
Countries and the value of the Rontgen rays
snd Of tuberculip in diagnoses for various kinos
Of human tuberculosis.
pr. Brouardel expresses the opinion that one
of the most useful results Of the congress is the
,cceptation of the fact by all delegates that
hovine tuberculosis is as transmssible to men
ssit is to children. the bovine bacilli being even
more dangerous to men than are the human
bacilli. This in the opinion of the congress-
unssts T,r. Kochs theories, ard is a triumph of
the French school which always insists on
sterilization OF milk.
French savants declare that the hero Of the
congress lust ended is Professor Emil Won
Behring. Of Berlin. who in 1901 divided the
Nobel Prize with his intimate friend DR. Roux'
Of the Pasteur Institute. All the delegates ex-
press the greatest confidence in Professor Won
Bebring's experiments with his new curative
element. which he calls It. C" In a paper
which he read to the congress this afternoon. he
declared he obtained this by the inpregnation
of living cells Of organism with substance
derived from the virus Of tuberculosis.
Professor Won Behring. who is fifty years old
ard Of vigorous physique. read his paper in Ger
man and said that his experience had led him
70 abandon the method Of introducing into the
human body for therapeutic purposes living
bs1flli Of tuberculosis. and he is convinced that
curative treatment Of human tuberculosis Is
based on his present discovery
Professor Won Behrins said that he had in
trusted his remedy TO several scientists more
familiar than himself with individual varieties
Of pulmonary r6IHasiss anu 44AuSpSiiNS1ih
rnents will be carried in different laboratories
These he hopes. will confirm his own expert
rnents already made
It should be remembered that four wears
eIspsed besors his experiments with diphtherfa
were found practical. and Q much longer time
would hare been needed had st not been for the
remarkable work accomplished by Emile Roux
How much time win caps" he said, before
the utilization Of my new remedy against tuber-
culosis becomes Of practical value cannot say
for so many factors may intervene; but 1 am
most fortunate in having a companion IN the
struggle Of the worth Of Emile Roux."
Professor Won Behring, when he had concluded
his paper. which forthwith was translated into
French, was acclaimed with enthusiasm, shouts
OF applause aud cheers.
Casirnir Perier. ex-PTesident OF the French
republic who was present, exclaimed:
Il am confident that Won Behring is on the
right track of what will prove to be the most
humanitarian and scientific discovery OF our
time
This voices the feeling expressed to-day by
many Of the French savants IN regard TO Won
Behring's remedy for tuberculosis, now known
ss IT. c. C. L B.