| Show FOR trill TIIE FAMOUS IY IN AX AN U unexpected DIRECTION A yew new I 1 ork victim action I 1 of this terrible did fl aeao sea makes rapid improvement sand and to Reco recover lorr new march 1 2 dispatch sau its francisco chronicle series I 1 whatever way may bo be said of the meet felt by many prominent physicians that kochs parata lold or lymph ly naph has not net fulfilled all promises which were rondo made for it by its treat great discoverer KB its use Is likely to bo be proved la in a direction quite unexpected this bile it may merely be souther another remedial agent ja in tho the treatment of the tuberculosis of oc various grades grade and white while it tiba is a deagon 10 tho the aro are that it may reach re offs the iho dignity of a specific tor for one OBO 0 of ft the most mol terrible that the human huma 0 ruce rue s has bus ever been subject to shortly utter thu first tests of the iterate told lold wore were made in this ahli city dr 3 no ton heineman tho the eminent visiting physician of mount ho began treating ln is 11 private case CAIO of leprosy in tho the suburbs suburb of now non york the patient was a campara com para lively young man not more thua than 30 80 years old it ho was wealthy but owing to his terrible torri blo affliction WM was kept n clotio close inmate of ft A cottage cott Kio which was occupied only by him and big bj nu gursc cao the disease hd had been contracted while the young area WAS wait visiting central america At uerice and had so tar far pro grenger that the only efforts made by lils his attendants tHoo danta were to render the remainder roma luder 0 of f his bis lifo life as am possible when the injections were begun the patient boro bore pt on to a man mail tho the ilch flesh or of his bla fuce necks and ears eara was so 0 o diseased that bli bin hoail hend was quite twice its m normal tho the infiltrations of lowroy had bad ailed the rot acs an find nd had bad hardened burdened over them co destroying the alkil tile hands wora were kept rigidly olson tho the fingers stretched apart by tho the of the skin anti and muse loo sad were entirely uk A little more anore than two month as have elapsed sinco since tho the first injection of of a gratner oo 0 of f the fluid was administered la in the I 1 per cent solution of etell tied water vater recommended mended la in go conary by prof pent koob hach the injections always exceedingly small here been continued at regular inter vais forty eight hours boum ever glum the parAla lold was used in connection with an extract of cocoa its u S tonic ja of the 8 sj bogan began after the first few injections nod aud now no after noluo rains nine weeks the condition of the patient in ig this ibis tho the great swelling of tho the face and have bavo been so reduced that tbt not alone Is a tho bead of normal size but his features have become recognizable the lo in over tho the eyeballs havo have been dissolved and ilia pupil lias has acconio visible tho the blindness bU of tho the patient continues of bf courso course und and iti it 14 I 1 not expected that this can secured be cured for the discuss Is bu apparently thoroughly done its work in tho the arguna of sight TI atie a hands have become responsive to tho the wit will the t he patient pail ent being able to use them freely while the foot paid ankles she w the urno ame favorable favor ablo conditions the man hu bus been given new hope orad aud believes now that instead of dylag from his bis terrible horrible ilia ease cao lie ho vo ill bo be cured ot of course a single case of tun this kind iq in by no moans means a proof that the parata lold Is li a specific for leprosy but it Is a great to that hope and protia professor r koob koch way may in his big intended discovery of ono one thing havo acal doa tally discovered discolored a greater one |
