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THE important communication made by the renowned German pathologist at the last meeting of the Berlin Medical Society is a severe shock to the opinions of those who expect that Koch's mysterious lymph will prove applicable in every case of consumption. Prof. Virchow gives the result of his observations on twenty-one cases that have died, after treatment with the lymph, up to the end of December. Since then, six or seven other cases have come under his notice, but have not yet been completely examined. Of the twenty-one cases, sixteen were phthisical. The remaining five included a case of joint tuberculosis; a case in which lung tuberculosis was accompanied with carcinoma of the pancreas; another had empyema; the next had pernicious anaemia, slight changes in the lungs, and tuberculous pleuritis; and, lastly, comes a case of tubercular inflammation of the arachnoid.
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Reported in the Berliner klinische Wochenschrift, January 12, 1890, p. 47.
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HANKIN, E. Professor Virchow on the Consumption Cure. Nature 43, 248–249 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/043248d0
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