| Show THAT LYMPH AGAIN it is about eix months since once dr koch roch gave to the public the idea thau that a remedy bad been found lor for the annihilation lation of certain animalcule ammal culio in the human system cerad to which were attributed certain ravaging diseases particularly consumption at the medical congress 88 in berlin birlin the die discovery covery was first given to 0 o the gorji the doctor has given his points aud and conclusions to the people veople at large with a great deal of clence and certainly there thero has not it at auy time so far ao as be and lib his immediate friends are concerned been anything savoring of exultation boasting or big promises while it is equally certain that the ablest among the practitioners in the lie united europe have exercised the greatest caution in receiving rece ivine and applying the lymph and detill more in announcing noun cing any virtues which it might pos possess sees albeit entirely willing in most cases to ghe give it a st fair and full trial and the benefit of any merit which might alter after experience be found I 1 to exist different physicians hive of course treated the subject differently dr Lind landsey an eminent practitioner of new york in lecturing to students etu denta recently made no extravagant claims for the new remedy but indicated as dr koch has already done that ho he was more anxious to be sure as far 0 as he went than to anticipate any conclusions ot of which vitro was tha slightest doubt it la this cautious reserve on the part of dr koch and his associates which indicate indicates perhaps more directly than anything elsa the tile value and importance of tile new now rem ely on tha the other hand there are doctors who hava received the ebeo y of dr koch with a cool amounting almont to cynicism their position la is that assumed a few faw days ago by dr virchow in barlia barlin that tha the fluid does not destroy the simply drives them from the place where they are nt at work to some other part of the body thus doing as a rule moro more havoc than good the view of tho the loading leading physicians of oden ogden were given through the columns of ins STAND ARD ome lome L weeks ago Iti it is often soften the case tint thit an invention of the kind referred to Is killed with kindness that Is people generally are eo Bo hopeful in bome cases and EO mu much c li prone to exaggerate exa gerata in others that the curative agency fails to reach the high water mark fixed for it and then it Is denounced as a complete piece of imposture this is the ways of the world and a very bad way it is bookfor look for instance at the reception given dr brown elixir of life a year or more ago having been tested and found to possess certain invigorating powers the public as usual went wild and in terms of high bounding sounding rhetoric rhe lorio bime persone and arid a portion of the press heralded it as the realization of ponce de leone leons dream of a fountain of youth of course it had bad not as nothing baa has any such qualities and when we got down to tho the bottom facts no such merit was claimed for the elixir the inventor saw that his advertisers were overdoing the thing and tried hard enough to overtake the mischief and overcome it but it was too late the hat flat bad gone forth and when the elixir failed to supplant eup plant gray bair hair with the original color smooth out wrinkles from the forehead and restore strength to limbs weakened with age or disease it all at once became utterly useless for any purpose and the doctor himself was wasa suddenly changed as in a spectacular pantomime from a benefactor to a clown there was merit in his discovery and had it not been trumpeted abroad es as so much moro more than it was or than its author claimed for it it might not be in the condition of utter desuetude in which we now findig find it while coffees ing to a degree of incredulity regarding dr kochs lymph as things eland stand now the wisa wise physicians are re thice who insist upon fair treatment in order dertha that tatter after a thorough investigation having in view the determination of all things in the way of virtues and all other things in the nature of harm it ahall prove to be of any use ai at all ill it may be assigned to that purpose in the uie materia iam a in med edica ica surely in an age in which sickness Bickne aa is BO so constant a visitor and death lurks in BO so many al all afford lafford to conent 8 to this |
