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Show KUCII'SLYMI'II. Tnenly nine I'ermun stow luuru latrtl In Srr lorU. "K? "fori", Vtv. 12. Sixteen moir sulTerer from tttln-cilnjls were inoculated today with he Kuch lymph. This makes the total number of persons now undergoing the treatment invented and recommended recom-mended by tlie German bacteriologist bacteriolo-gist twenty-nine, cxclmlvo of a dcs-tlble dcs-tlble three or four Ic tlie Xew York i'olrclinic HospitaL where infor-nhtl?U infor-nhtl?U about Cerati"a3 psrformed there were refuse! to nil except pkyslclaw. The introdactioi. of the new cure for pulmonary dbscasts na for tuberculosis has awakened the live Hest Intercut amotta; tlio pliyslcians oflfcwYork, and all are eer lo wilnisrj tho experiments and li watch Ibe e.Tcrts of the luocnhtisns lu the hospital iatienb trli' lave brfri trea,'sj. A hrgts party Cf WaskiogrsiJ p'lT.Wi-a vijlled St. Luke's Hospital to tve tit. "rancI3 P. Klnnicutt's demsnstratiou of ICcch'u raetkjd, and a number of otliTs fill l hefc from l'hlbdcl-r"'- -i.l Jtjs'jf;. T" ihtlcal i'scorrf will (tibii-ii - tp'tte hbtory cl the cases which iiavo bein treated wltn Kick's lymph. Tlie article was written by Dr. Sliraly, who his iperoually examine ex-amine 1 eacli of tlie r.ticnts mentioned. men-tioned. Dr. Skrady say-: "I tlnnb It prolublu thatlheaiLilyis made Ic I'arls and telegraphed litre I cor-lectj cor-lectj According to this, Koch's lymph Is comi-osed of ptomilnes cf tiiPerc!" I'jec'm, gly.serlna and one of tlio eyal'gert coinpOM'sJ nf gotil. The action of the lymph t otr")Ii3 that of septic jiotsons, as o know them. Heart oppressions and a rue in llii tcmrxrralure arecbaraeterMie syraptotn; of ierjfe irjli-us, pro-dilced pro-dilced by the putrtscence of dead bodlisurlbe decay of organic tab-staece. tab-staece. Within the pasl few tlays there have beln hundreds of npMiraL'oas for thcadmtolon of consumptive" to (he hespital. aud on the promise of Or. Koch, cabled from Berliu, that the hrspita! shall have a fresh and Large supply of lymph In a short time, arrangements are being made to accomodate a much larger number num-ber of patients. One p' the most jieculiir features of the xpcrlmutits at Mount Sinai lo ntl vra UvcIoidln thoca.e f i !uppocilIy hcaUbv man, who was inocu!atc-U as a test of the effect of the lymph. The reaction in hh caso has jlieeu very tltclded. and there Is now evidence that the man had tuberculo;!, though w hen he I was Inoculated the fact was not known. His only ailment wastbuu thought to bo rheumatism. An-other An-other jieeullar fact about thu Mount Sinai Hospital exerircenls is that the women aud children are not at all alarmed while the men are very nervous and seem to bo badly frightened." 1.1311-H I-oK I-lllLAItKl.flll.. Pllll HKt.pniA, Dec 12. A sup ply of Koch's lymph was rtcelved to lay by the eointilhMoa appointed by the University of I'enu-'ylvania t tnv.sllgs.te t!i mtihed. All the ca.-eJele- tel will lie admitted to Ibe l:il verity hofjiitil and a critical criti-cal tcitntiflc study made of each. |