DR. KOCH'S CURE.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2915, 21 March 1891, Page 2

DR. KOCH'S CURE.

(BY ELECTRIC TEI.ECIIAPH—COI'VHI'iIIT.) Adelaide. March 111. Stuaiit, wb» investigated Dr. Koch's cure on behalf of several of the colonies, lectured at the Adelaide University on the subject last night. He said the weak point in Dr. Koch's specific was that the bacilli were uoL killed outright. The effect of the specific was to destroy the substances produced by the bacilli, which substances injuriously affected the living elements surrounding them in the body. But unless the bacilli were bodily removed along with the dead elements in which tiny lay they might simply spread to the neighbouring healthy organs, and the latter condition of the patient might bo worse tlnn tho former. He 'nelie.ved j.hat many deaths were due to the indiscriminate manner in which the specific was used by practitioners in Berlin. Tho public hoped more tlrui Dr. Koch ever promised. Professor Siuart concluded by expressing the opinion that the remedy was useful ill diagnosis, but nothing more. Nevertheless great things would probably come from it. Owing to its potency it should not, in tho meantime, ba used outside duly appointed Hospitals. Berlin, March 19. The sale of Koch's tuberculina has been forbiddau in Munich.