Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1891 — KOCH’S LYMPH COUNTERFEITED. [ARTICLE]

KOCH’S LYMPH COUNTERFEITED.

It has been discovered that a spurious Imitation of Professor Koch’s lymph is being manufactured, and a number of cases have been reported in which foreign med* leal men have been deceived into purchae* ing the bogus preparation. Agents of Prof. Koch have been unable to discover the manufacturers of the counterfeit. The police are working on one case where the fraud was attempted upon Dublin physis ciaus. A man who gave his name as Bough, and who claimed to he attached to the Koch. clinic,- opened cemmuaieatteawith the doctors of the Dublin Hospital, offering to send them a quantity of the lymph on payment of a certain sum of money. The doctors in reply forwarded a check for £ls and told Bough to send the lymph. Bough also got from another Irish doctor who was visiting BerlinLater, however, the sender of the check, suspecting a swindle, telegraphed to stop payment. Bough had given the check to the manager of the hotel where he was stopping in paymentof his bill. The man* ager informed the police, but Bohgh had decamped, leaving a quantity of plausible Imitations of the Koch lymph. The medical prhfession throughout the empire gets more and more indignant over the manner in which the lymph is distributed and Professor Koch’s secrecy regard-, ing its production. The medical associations of Brandenburg and other provinces have sent protests to the government against the secret manufacture of the Koch remedy, which, they say, is giving rise to scandal. The Breslau Medical So 4 eiety sent to Professor Koch and also to Dr. Von Gossler, Minister of Ecclesiastical Ass fairs, a resolution. declaring that it works great injury to the profession at large to allow hospitals and privileged persons In private practice a monopoly of the lymph. Professor Koch, in an interview with an English physician, who wanted the Pros fessor to disclose the whole process, gotangry at the proposal and declared that he had the right to do as he pleased with his disoovery. An explosion of a boiler In the sausage factory of Ben Loewenstein & Bro then, Cincinnati, damaged six small dwelling houses: killed Jennie. Grey, aged four years; fatally injured Mrs. Loewenstein, aged eightyseight, and less seriously inlured several other persons. William Longlutz, a butcher, who ran the engine> was arrested for running an engine without a licensei also his employer, Ben Loe* weustein. Loss to property about #3,000. i Wallace & Co.’s circus and menagerie ie wintering at Peru, and last week one of the elephants underwent a surgical opera* tion for the removal of a six pound tumor growing upon his neck. He submitted to the operation quietly, and the tumor waa isuooassf ully removed.