Salt Lake Herald | 1890-11-11 | Page 1 | Chief Ingredient of Koch's Consumptive Cure

Chief Insredient Kochs Consumptive Cure Special to THE HERALD Examiner Cable BERLIN Nov 10Your correspondent has ascertained that voxalbumine is the most important ingredient in the lymph used by Professor Koch in inoculating consumptive con-sumptive patients Professor Koch himself him-self makes this fluid which is injected like morphine to the lung consumptives in the back and the other consumptives in the nearest spot to that which is affected Thus in consumption of the larynx for instance in-stance it would be at some point in the throat In most cases the patients suffered from a high fever for two days after inocu lating but this is not dangerous as has been proved by the fact that all the cases on which treatment has been tried have stood It well and have resulted most favorably favor-ably The speech from the throne at the open ing of the Prussian diet on Wednesday next the 12th inst will contain a demand for half a million marks to be devoted to starting Koch lymph depots all over Prus