FIGHTING CONSUMPTION.
THE TUBERCULIN TREATMENT.
New York, February 23. Over 30 .io. tors received their first lesson yesterday at the Polytechnic Hospital in the treatment of tuberculosis with a modifier) and perfected form of Koch's tuberculin. The tuberculin is exactly the «ame ii« that produced by the famous German scientist, and which was only partly successful. It is now said, however, to b« curinc nearly 100 per cent, of the honu and gland cases treated, and also of lung cases .where the disease is in the first stegr- In lung cases of the second stage I 90 per cent, of cures are reported, but I "hen the disease lias reached the third I Stage the use of the tuberculin is likely I to hasten death. The reason of the failure b in the early years of the use of tuberculin I is that the amount of the dose was too I large. Formerly a tenth of a milligram I to a milligram was used at an I injection. This is a million to I *<■'» million times as great as the )S doso adminuteroi to-da^
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15548, 4 March 1914, Page 11
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