DR. KOCH’S ALLEGED CURES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2178, 21 March 1891, Page 1

DR. KOCH’S ALLEGED CURES.

Adelaide, March 19. Professor Ander«<Mi ; Btuarf, who visited Berlin to study Dr Koch’s remedy, delivered a lecture at the Adelaide Uoiversity last (light. The Professor d dared that the weak point in Dr Koch’s specific was tb»t the bacilli utere not killed. Its effVct was to destroy th u substances produced by the bacoiHi which injuriously aff-cited the living elements in the body by which it was surroundedUnless the bacilli were bodily removed along with the dead el-m-nt in which they (ay, they might simply spread to neighboring heal'hy organs, so that the patient’s latter condition might even be worse than before. He believed many of the deaths were due to the iodisi. criminate manner in which the renwdj bad been used by practitioners ip Berlin, the public had hoped for more than Dr Koch had ever premised. The professor cr>nclqc|ed hy an opinion that the remedy would prays useful in assisting diagnosis, hut nothing morei Nevertbeli-ua great things would probably come from it, but owing to its potency the lymph must be used with the greatest circumspection, and in (he meantime it should not be used outside of duly appointed hospitals. Berlin, March 19. The sale of Dr K> ch’s 'uberculine has been forbidden in Munich,