A Cure for Consumption.
0 Fuller and farther particulars about Professor Koch's new preparations or compounds of wl a 1 ; is termed " tuberculiuo " are eagerly awaited by French medical men, says the Paris correspond ent of 3, London paper. According to information received in tho French Cilitil ia March last, the German professor, after many years of patient re search, lias this time discovered a sure means of counteracting the dire effects of the bacillus or tuberculosis. Experiments bauog been made on guinea pigs, one of the preparations was tiied on persons wbo were in the first t ige of pulmonary phthisis, and it produced a marked amelioration in the condition of the patients. Successful results were also obtained in the cases of invalids afilxted wit'i lupus. Professor Koch, in the commune ition which be made on the subject to a weetly m dicel paper, doas not cay that the patients who were treated by his new method were cured, because a sufficient length of time has not elapsed to enable him to talk in such a coufident manner ; but he is reported to be thoroughly satisfied with what has so far been accomplished. It is said that the new tuberculine has been fabricated in large quantities by a chemical manufactory, and sold to bos pitals and pharmacies,
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Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 280, 2 June 1897, Page 3
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