Particulars of Dr Koch's Remedy.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 18 December 1890, Page 3

Particulars of Dr Koch's Remedy.

Regahdino tlie consumption euro, Dr Koch says the remedy is a brownish, transparent liquid, which does not require special care to prevent decomposition For use, this fluid must be more or less diluted, and dilutions are liable to undergo decomposition if prepared with undistilled water, as bacterial growths boon develop in them ; they become turbid, and are then unfic for use To prevent this, diluted liquid must, be sealed by heat, and preserved under a cotton-wool stopper, or more conveniently prepared with a oup half per cent solution of pheuoll. It w*m'd seem however that the effect is weakened boih l»y frequent hrating and by mixture with phenoll solution. When introduced into the stomach the remedy has no effect. In order' to obtain a ro'iablo effect it must bo infected subcutnneously. For this purpose a mehane is exclusively U3cd with a syringo, suggested by me for baclei illogical worif. It is furnished with a ?inall indiarubber ball, and has no piston. Tlit syiingo can usually be Ice t a sceptic by the \\ao of absoluto alcohol, and to this wo attribute the fact that not an rtboess has been observed in the course of more than 10,000 subcutaneous injections. The place chosen for the injection, after several trials of other places, was the skin of the b.ck, between tbo shoulder blades and the lumbar rogion, because here injection has led to local roaction, which was generally none at all and was almost painless.