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Show lu-siilts of the Consumption Kctneily. Frmn what is now known it seenm likely that about six weeks will bo required re-quired to rid patients in tho early stagn of consumption of the symptoms of their disease. Whether this does or does not mean the complete cure of the disease is) i at present a question which will be answered an-swered conclusively by patients treated j iu hospital wards. It is in tho highest ! degree probable, as every bacteriologist will understand, that relapses will occur. ' They must 1 treated on tho principles : Already laid down by Koch, and their ' importance as a factor in tho ending of the case must be worked out in public hospital practice. This I can say con-j con-j cerning tho success which attends tho use of this remedy in tuberculosis. I ! have never seen in a considerable series of cases treated by any remedy such uniformly uni-formly good results, nor results so favor ' able to tite patients. I do not, in what I havo just said, iu- elude cases of advanced lung tubercle. Of that class of patients I have seen too i few treated in tho new way to entitle mo to speak of them from my own i knowledge. What we havo heard and read of such cases in connection with this treatment leads us to expec t at most temporary amelioration of their oondi- tion. Attention cannot bo too forcibly i drawn to what Koch says, in his paper j of Nov. 14, concerning tho grave respon- j nihility which will in future rest upon; medical men who leave any means tin- ! tried to diagnose tulercular disease in its earliest stages. Dr. (. A. Heron iu I Popular Science Monthly. j |