ALLEGED CONSUMPTION CURES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2142, 27 December 1890, Page 3

ALLEGED CONSUMPTION CURES.

London, Deo. 22. Dr Oargenven, an English aarejeon, claims to hava discovered a method of treating scarlet fever with ecaaljptai oil. Deo. 23. Professor Anderson B'uart, who baR h»en investig»ting Dr Rocb's onre on b«U«lfofthe several colonies, reports th<»« the latter'* remedy aids diagnosis and good results may be obtained. He coneiders, however, that the treatment i? injurious in cages of advanced consumption, and Bays that the early stages are improved more eubjectorily than cbj c ively. Most of tbe doctors who h*v» been esquiring into the cure assume a reserved at itude. Professor 8 uar takßS a quantity of the lymph to Au«-' iralia and he will lecture on the treatment and demonstrate the action of th" •ymph in Sydney in March, lie conaiders that no patients ebou d come from Australia. Paris, D«c. 20. A rival lymph to Dr, Koch's h anounced in the city, Melbourne, Dec. 22. Dr Caffin has expressed little faith in Dr Koch's care. He has, however, tried an experiment on a young woman having the disease in its acutest form He prepared lymph from consumption germs cultivated in chicken broth, and introduced the lymph into the arm forty times and is awaiting the result-