DE EOCH'S CURE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7055, 6 January 1891, Page 4

DE EOCH'S CURE.

A despatch from Netv York, dated Dec 12, says physicians who have been spending most of their time at the bedsides of patienta in the hospitals in town for the past week, watching experiments with the Koch lymph, are beginning to reap their reward. At the German Hospital probably the most interesting case is that of Wilhelmina Kleinert, a charity patient who has for years suffered from lupus on one side of the face. A visiting physician who saw the woman inoculated, in describing the case Baid it was a singular one in some respects. A rapid rise in temperature is the result usually observed four or five hours after inoculation, but in this patient's caße the temperature went down about two degrees. This was not remarkable, yet rare; but it was noticed that the temperature did not rise above the normal, even after negative reaction. Most important, however, was the result observed in the woman's disease. The lupus affection gradually swelled out, and became first pink and then as red as though it had been painted. This was the condition of the patient- to-day. It is expected that Boon the sloughing process in the exterior swelling, and the formation of granules in the skin beneath, which is the first indication of healing, will follow; for, so far as the experiment has gone, the cas9 has behaved like cases of lupus that have been reported from the German hospitals. The swelling already shows signs of collapse.

Twenty-nine persons were undergoing treatment by Dr Koch's lymph at New Tork on the latest date.