The cure of consumption : further communications on a remedy for tuberculosis / by Robert Koch.

  • Koch Robert, 1843-1910.
Date:
1890
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Credit: The cure of consumption : further communications on a remedy for tuberculosis / by Robert Koch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    reaction became feebler, and finally ceased entirely. In two cases of facial lupus the lupus spots were in this way brought to smooth cicatrisation after three or four injections; other lupus patients have also improved in proportion to the duration of the treatment. All these patients had been sufferers for many years, and had been previously treated in various ways wdthout success. Tuberculous affections of the glands, bones, and joints were treated in a similar way, large doses being given at long intervals. The result w^as the same as in the lupus cases : rapid recovery in recent and slight cases ; slow, gradual improvement where the cases were severe. Somewhat different were the circumstances in the phthisical ])atients, who form the majority of our patients. Patients with decided tuberculosis of the lungs are far more susceptible to the remedy