The German world is perfectly wild over Dr. Koch's dis-
covery for the cure of consumption, and doctors and patients are hurrying to Berlin from every part of Europe, and even from America. He has published an account of his method, which is, briefly, to inject into the human subject minute doses of lymph obtained by inoculating guinea-pigs with tubercle, and has received and rejected a large offer from a Bourse Company for the monopoly of his remedy. He appears to be a little embarrassed by the sudden and bewilder- ing faith reposed in his ability, and is careful to explain that he cannot cure cases that are far gone, that he proposes to treat only incipient phthisis, and that he has only as yet been successful in curing lupus. Even about this there is as yet no certainty, doctors who observe the operations questioning whether as yet it is proved that the disappear- ance of the external signs of disease is more than temporary. The Professor himself is not half so triumphant or ecstatic as his disciples, and for the present has relieved himself of pressure by declaring that he has no more lymph, and that the supply of guinea-pigs runs short. It is probable that rabbits would do as well, and of them there is no end.
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