ALLEGED CONSUMPTION CURES. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2132, 2 December 1890, Page 1

ALLEGED CONSUMPTION CURES.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Berlin, N.-r. 27. Dr Koch i» indignant at certain medical men ex'oning money from consumptive patients on pretence of possessing his secret. The German Government will shortly undertake the preparation and dis'ri. bation of lymph, Nov. 28. It is possible that Dr Kocli, will deliver a lecture on 3rd December, explaining the method of the consumptic n cure, London, Nov. 27. Dr Watson, lecturer «' Kina’s College inoculated frur patien's with « fluid product of bacillus. A dose of one cubic centimetre was injected in the back. The affinity of the fluid to the diseased tissue is similar to that of the loadstone to the needle. It occasions fever, vomiting, and coma, followed by the binning, swelling and slonghiag of the rff e'ed parts. Ibe Oo'lege of Veterinary burgeons and the faculty of the Hospital for piseasea of the Skin are investigating the process. Nov. 29. An ?s r )g iih iumi ne h being f irm d In car? out the antis.-piic mod.- of treatunnt introduced by Sir Joseph LUUt, one of the most eminent of living surgsoue,

I ; London, Nov. 27. Thelrish Land Purchase Bill has been rea I'a'first' time in the Hr.use of Comm ms. The clause, providing for purchase within two years, and the clause allowing grazing nn ihe property of absentee owmrs ha 6 been expunged, Mr Parnell voted wilt the Government, Mr G adsloue rod Mr Morcly abstained (ro n voting at all