Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1891 — KOCH AND HIS AIDS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

KOCH AND HIS AIDS.

PATIENTS THRONGING TO BER—- „ LIN FOR TREATMENT. Famous Gorman Physicians Cur'ouß Scenes and Incidents at the Improvised Hospitals Where the New Treatment of Consumption Is Administered. The general interest taken in Professor Koch’s consumption remedy has brought Berlin doctors into great prom-

inence. Dr. Koch is one of a new school of medical investigators o f whom Virchow is the best known and who have given Germany a foremost place in the profession, and added many valuable discoveries to science. Among the Other eminent German

medical men to whom Koch’s discovery has been submitted for their judgment, or who have been engaged in treating consumptive patients with his lymph are Professors Yon Esmarck, Gerhard, and Krause, and Drs. Bergmann, Frantzel, Levy, and Cornet. The consulting-room used by Dr. Kochi and the other medical men who have un-

dertaken to apply his cure is at the Central Hotel in Berlin, which is said to be the largest hotel in the world. It is an ordinary large hotel room with a screen shutting off a small compartment, where the patients are examined and a number of seats for the acc o m m o d ation of those who are wait-

ing for their turn. A house in the Kaiser Wilhelmstrasse has been fitted up as a temporary hospital, and there Dr. Cornet and several assistants attend to the patients. The scenes around the house since cases began to be treated baffles description. People who halvecome from all parts of Germany and from various other European countries throng the street outside the house, block the staircase to the third floor, where the demonstration rooms are situated, and pack the wait-

ing-.room almost to suffocation. It is a coughing, heavybreathing, sighing crowd, with emaciated, pale faces in which despair or resignation is painted. A few here and there are lighted up with a. faint glimmer of hope. They are mainly those who have been inocula-

ted and feel better, or fancy they are better, and have come back for a second examination. From early morning till night the people come and go in a neverending stream, and the doctors areworked almost to death. Dr. Cornet is a marvel of patience and kindness, and the latter quality has much to do with keeping the sufferers ia

good humor, which is a necessary accompaniment to a fair test of the lymph. In the demonstration - room a crowd o f doctors stand with Dr. Cornet round a table covered with instruments. They, are kept as busy as| beavers. Wheu the pat ie n t’s turn comes he strips the upper part of his

body and is examined. Then the point, of the syringe is inserted between the shoulder blades, the little india-rubber ball is pressed, and the subcutaneous injection of lymph is given. The doctor who treats the patient keeps talking cheerfully to him during the few moments, which the operation requires, and. the sufferer goes away looking relieved and grateful. For wealthy patients a private hospital has been fitted up in the Albrechtstrasse. It is now full, and notices are

posted up announcing that no further patients can be admitted, and that no consultations are held on the premises. It was originally fitted up as a. flat house of the better class. Dr. Cornet’s brother, who has been brought o n from Munich, takes careof the hospital for his brothdr, who is only able to pay

short visits to liis patients. Other temporary hospitals have been fitted up, but all of them together arc not capable of accommodating a tithe of the patients willing to pay any price for treatment. The founder of the school of investigating doctors, and by far the most distinguished physician in Germany as well as one of the foremost in Europe, is Dr. Virchow of Berlin. He was born at. Seliwelbein in Pomerania in 1821 and studied medicine in Berlin. In 1849 he was appointed professor of anatomy at Wurzburg and soon became known as one of the principal exponents of what was then called the Wurzburg school. He returned to Berlin as professor in. 1856, and did excellent work in the newly founded pathological institute which soon became the center of independent research among the younger scientific men. He founded the Anthropological Society, and did much to spread scientific knowledge among the people. -He also took an active part in politics, and was for many years a member of the Reichstag. has written many books on medical and other subjects. Among his principal, works are, “Cellular Pathology,” “Four LeCtures on Life and Illness,” “Goethe as a Naturalist.” “The Education of Women,” and “Free Knowledge in theModern State.” Dr. Bergmann. who also takes a great interest in Koch's discovery, is widely knowm through his eontroversy'with SirMorell Mackenzie over the treatment of Emperor Frederick. How to get rid of nuts -marry tliem» to your uncles.

DH. VIRCHOW.

VON ESMARCK.

DR. GERHARD.

DR. CORNET.

VON BERGMANN.