Dr Koch's Consumption Cure
d(pER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.') Adelaide, March 19. Professor Anderson Stuart, who visited Berlin to study Dr Koch's remedy for consumption, delivered a lecture at the Adelaide TJniveraity last night. The Professor declared* that the weak point in Dr Koch's specific was that the bacilli were not killed. The effect was to destroy substances produced by the bacilli, which injuriously affected living elements inthe body by which they were surrounded. Unless the bacilli were bodily removed, ' -along with the dead element in which it lay, they might simply spread to neigh touring healthy organs, so that the pa- '-. tients' latter' condition might eveu be • worse than formerly. Professor Stuart expressed the opinion that the remedy would prove useful in assisting diagnosis, hut* nothing, more. Nevertheless, great things would probably come from it ; but, . owing fco its potency, the lymph must be ' used with the greatest circumspection, and in the meantime it should not be used ■outside of duly appointed hospitals. Berlin, March 19. The sale of Dr Koch's tuberculine has . been forbidden in Munich,
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 115, 21 March 1891, Page 3
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