CONSUMPTION CURE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3765, 20 March 1891, Page 2

CONSUMPTION CURE.

PROF. ANDERSON STUART EXPLAINS.

Adelaide, March 19.

Professor Anderson Stuart, who visited 'Berlin to study Dr Koch's remedy for consumption, delivered a lecture at the Adelaide University last night. The Professor declared that a weak point in Dr Koch's specific was that the bacilli were not killed. The effect was to destroy substances produced by the bacilli, ! which injuriously affected living elements in the body by which they were surrounded. Unless the bacilli were bodily r&2°ved, along with the dead element in which it isJj they might simply spread to healthy neighboring organs, so P a tients' latter condition might even fee worse than formerly. He believed many of the deilbs were due to the indiscriminate manner in which the remedy was used by practitioners in Berlin. The public had hoped for more thtin Dr Koch had ever promised.. Prof. Stuart concluded by expressing the opinion that the remedy would prove usetul in assisting diagnosis, but

nothing more. Nevertheless, great things would, probably come from it; but, owing to its potency, the lymph must be used with the greatest circumspection, and in the meantime it should not be used outside of duly appointed hospitals.