DR KOCH’S CURE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 995, 27 March 1891, Page 32

DR KOCH’S CURE.

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) 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 the weak 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 removed, along with the dead element in which it lay, 'they might simply spreak to neighbouring healthy organs, so that the patients’ latter condition might even be worse than formerly. He believed many of the deaths were due to the indiscriminate manner in which the remedy was used by practitioners in Berlin. The public had hoped for more than Dr Koch had ever promised. Stuart concluded by expressing the opinion that the remedy would prove useful in assisting diagnosis, but nothing more. Nevergreat 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. Berlin, March 19. The sale of Dr Koch’s tuberculino has been forbidden in Munich. LYMPH FOR NEW ZEALAND. (per press association.) Dunedin, March 20. Dr Macdonald has been advised by the Minister for Lands that a supply of Dr Koch’s lymph is coming to hand, and will be in Dunedin about the end of this month.