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Tuberculosis has been known and its effects described since the time of the Greeks. Even then they called it consumption. But its cause was unknown until, in 1882, Robert Koch (1843-1910) discovered the Bacillus tuberculosis. At about that time, 1879-80, there were approximately 163,000 deaths annually (326.2 per 100,000) in the U.S. Koch foreshadowed the method of preventing the disease. Since then unceasing preventive work has reduced its ravages in the U. S. until last year, as Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, who is responsible for the work of the U. S. Public Health Service, told...
...Manhattan, Dr. C. Everett Field, director of the Radium Institute of New York, had vexed many physicians by advocating a cancer-cure nostrum of one Dr. William F. Koch of Detroit. Dr. Field's advocacy was the more dangerous because of the wide press publicity recently accorded his claimed ability to transmute diamond tints (TIME, Aug. 23). But, besides Dr. George A. Soper, who spoke officially as director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, only two Manhattan physicians openly opposed Dr. Field's claims. They were Dr. David Bryson Delavan, a director of the American...
From James Smith Hall, D. E. Rounds will hold the baton; W. R. Koch was chosen to conduct the Standish Hall chorus; and J. T. L. Thorup will lead the singers from Gore Hall...
Skillful journalese hooks headlines to the following researchers, popularizes them: Antony Leeuwenhoek, "First of the Microbe Hunters"; Lazzaro Spallanzani," "Microbes Must Have Parents"; Louis Pasteur, "Microbes Are a Menace!"; Robert Koch, "The Death Fighter"; Louis Pasteur, "And the Mad Dog"; Emile Roux and Emil August Behring "Massacre the Guinea Pigs"; Elie Metchnikoff, "The Nice Phagocytes"; Theobald Smith, "Ticks and Texas Fever"; David Bruce, "Trail of the Tsetse"; Ronald Ross and Battista Grassi, "Malaria"; Walter Reed, "In the Interest of Science?and for Humanity!"; and Paul Ehrlich, "The Magic Bullet...
...historian sees his people motivated by eccentric ideas and insanity. The devil, by the vulgate wording, had much to do with their successes?"hellish and dastardly tests," "devilish ingenuity," "his familiar demon." "For progress, God must send us a few more infernal marvelous searchers of the kind of Robert Koch." He sees them all of a pattern and is frank: "But the stumbling strides of the microbe hunters are not made by a perfect logic, and that is the reason that I might write a grotesque, but not perfect story of their deeds...