Word: koch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Almroth's wholesale prevention of disease contained an inherent danger to humanity which old Dr. Robert Koch, who discovered that germs actually cause disease and therefore that the destruction of germs would prevent disease, was quick to see. As far back as 1903, Koch warned doctors to beware typhoid carriers who show no signs of the disease, but carry in their gall bladders or intestines the germs with which others may be infected. Inoculation of such a carrier is wholly ineffective in destroying the typhoid bacillus which makes him a menace to society...
...William Frederick Koch of Detroit announced in 1919 that he had invented ''a synthetic chemical compound of very definite molecular arrangement" which cured cancer. He refused to describe the stuff. Doctors branded him a quack. People whom he claimed to have cured, doctors argued, either never had cancer or, as occasionally happens, recovered spontaneously. Dr. Koch argued that his critics were hostile because his chemical would curtail their profitable cancer business. He proceeded to establish a reputation among laymen, one of whom was Mr. Anderson, onetime railroader. Wartime civilian recruiter for the Army, onetime propagandizer for the Veterans...
...Palm Beach and Bar Harbor and discovered the existence of a Research Investigation Committee. Members include John D. Rockefeller's granddaughter, Mrs. Elisha Dyer Hubbard, and Consuelo Vanderbilt's father-in-law, Sydney J. Smith. They helped to fill editorial wastebaskets with querulous complaints about Dr. Koch's "persecutions...
Then, realizing that he ought to have some warrant for such a statement, he had doctor friends ask Dr. Hartwell for an opinion. Dr. Hartwell replied as follows: "Until Dr. Koch will make the formula of his treatment available to the general medical profession and will furnish enough of the material to have it given a thorough trial in several hospitals where its results can be observed by men competent in the field of cancer, I shall continue to advise those who ask my advice not to submit to the Koch cancer cure or advance its interests financially or otherwise...
...medical air was thick with rumors that Dr. Hartwell was already using his "good offices" in behalf of the Koch concoction. To overtake and down such rumors, that able Academy director sat down last week and wrote to every editor he knew: "May I emphatically deny . . . that I have become interested in Dr. Koch's cancer cure, and that I have promised to aid in having a demonstration of Dr. Koch's cancer serum made on 1,000 cancer sufferers? These statements are entirely without foundation, and whoever is propagating them is doing gross violence to the truth...