Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1891 — Koch’s Lymph Tried on a Cow. [ARTICLE]

Koch’s Lymph Tried on a Cow.

An interesting experiment has been made with the Koch lymph on a cow at tho University of Pennsylvania Veterinary Hospital, which resulted in tho animal’s death. Microscopical investigation of all the tissues of the body will be made to determine the value of Prof. Virchow’s assertion that inoculation with lymph causes a spread of the tubercle bacilli to. all parts of the body. Tho death of the animal, which took place under peculiar circumstances, establishes nothing for or against the efficacy of the lymph in tuberculosis. But the medical profession will await with great interest the results of the microscopic examination to determine tho spread of the bacilli. It is not stated how long tho cow had been suffering before inoculation from the symptoms of tubercular disease. If Virchow’s view is confirmed in this Philadelphia case the public would like to know from physicians there whether they regard that fact as wholly invalidating the claims of the lymph. —New York Herald.