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Show THE FAMOUS REMEDY Koch Is Confident It Mill Core Incipient In-cipient Consumption. Consump-tion. OOULO'S ADVICE TO THE BANKERS. BANK-ERS. Mr Ljon riajfalr Oi the Absurdity or the KcKInley Tariff. JNTERtSTING STATEMENTS OF CAMPAIGN EXPENSES'. A ;ro Tfoinau Mho Claim Te Hare It-ached the Ago ol 117. , D Totem pa to Uie V Era.! D1U KOCirt BKBEOr. rnrltirr nelalla tonrernln: tile rffeeta or Ills Ljinpri. Berlin, Not. 14. Twenty-five failudieutl of a cable centimeter luteusrly allrcled A healtliy man, who tassui Jeetol to thoexperlment, While two cubic centimeters applied tia guinea pic had little etrrcl. Prof. Koch inJ.Cted twuty-flve hundredths of a cubic centimeter lu his own arm, and in a few hours experienced a contraction of the liiubs and a marked feellug of lassitude. las-situde. At the same time he felt a desire to tough, together with difficulty diffi-culty of breathing. These symptoms symp-toms Increased mpklly, and lu five hours he experienced unusually violent rigor, accompanied with nausea, and the temperature of hi-Uviy hi-Uviy rose rapidly. Atiet twelve hours the sy mptums bocau to alnte, huI the next day the body rrsuiued a normal conlitlou. The,lieavine-I The,lieavine-I limb aud languid feeling continued con-tinued for sev.ral days, how ever. I lie same results foll.iW aahrli tiie fluid bapp led to diseased persons sutleriug from other thau tuberculosis tubercu-losis aUVrtious but In persons affected af-fected with tuberculosis the came quantity iroduc s a strong local reaction. re-action. Tho reaction can best be observed ou those whose a flection i visible, as, for Instance, persons uf-ferlng uf-ferlng ftum iupu. Within a few hours after the Injection tho lupus sores begin to swejlaud finally assume as-sume adark brown tint. After the fever subsides thebwelllngdecreases and generally disappears, scabs of matter fallingofl later. The portions of the skin nt clearly recognized as lupus are nut affected. It is asserted with lunfideqce that the remedy may be cousld-rcd nu auxiliary diaguosb, and lu doubtful casks INCIPIENT CONSUMPTION can poeltlvely ba diagnosed by its Ue. Professor Koch expresses a belief that hisie-nedy willcertaiiily proVencUfelil iiiclpleiit c-jnsum,-tlon. Whether, however, the cure will bo final, b not cleany proved. Further experiments are ryjcessarj odeUm.iui. "t" The reniuly cn only Influence living tubercoloals tissue. It lus no effect whatcxer utwn dead tlsue, and produces no effect upon tissues which have already been killed l.y tbe application of tbe remedy. It b quite ioslbIe tliat saeli dead tissue tis-sue may still cuntdn living tuberculous tuber-culous bacilli, which may ogrtlu In vado the adjacrut living tissues. It follows, theiefore, that tubfrculius tl-ue that Is still living mu-t be made first to decay. When tills has been accomplished, every effort mu-t be made to remove the dead matter by surgery. Where tlib Is lm0BsibIe aud stcretlon cin only proceed, the living tl-sue must be protected t.y continued application of the remedy. THE KEMEDV Is applied In cumulstlve dovg. A small quantity at first suffices to produce a stroug reaction, but as each succeeding ii'Jectiun cau-cs the death of a certain juauiiiy of tisu. eaQbloof reaction. Increased doses-are doses-are necessary until the latieut experiences ex-periences as little reaction as nou-tulerculous nou-tulerculous atieuts. Patients who have bnen treated in early stages or phthisis have all Uta freed from the irforbld symptoms sympt-oms within from four to six weeks, when they ma; be regarded as healed. Consumptives with large cavities In their lungs will probably eXrIence benefit from thu uew remedy only In exceptional case. Inallcasss Pruf. Koci emphasizes empha-sizes the necessity of early treatment. treat-ment. Only In incipient stages of the dUease, lie declares, can the Temedy fully develop Its eHlacy. lie depreciates mechanical and Indiscriminate In-discriminate application of the remedy,hoIdlng that it is preferable that the treatment should be applied lu suitable institutions, where careful care-ful observation b possible |
