Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1894-12-01
DR.. kLlBS WILL STAY WITH Us
ROTH \ COMPLIMENT AND \ MA
TERIAL BENEFIT.

Ono OF the Greatest of Investigators to
Live In Ashcville ana Extend the In
fiuence and Importance of the City
rs the Leading Health Resort.
Doctor +. Klets, the Strasburg
professor who discovered the bacillus OF
diphtheria and who will undertake, in
this Citv, with Doctor Karl Won RuCk,
the manufacture of antiphthisiue, the
latest and, b,leved bv many to be the
most successful, remedy for tuberculosis,
was met yesterday at the Winvah by a
CITIZEN reporter. The professor said:
II am glad that came to this bcauti-
full place. 1t is my first visit to America.
Professors in Europe are poorly paid
and their time is so much taken up with
their duties that they have no leisure for
travel. After many years OF university
life decided to give it up for the actual
treatment of infectious diseases and
efforts for their prevention. The writings
OF Doctor Won Ruck attracted me to
grand country makes me glad that am
here.
IL have lived in all parts of Switzer-
land and know its climate from one end
of the country to the other, but the eli
mate OF Ashevillc pleases me so tar bet
ter than the best in that country. The
study have made OF infectious diseases
convinces me that they can be treated
here with success. and that the remedies
to cure the people can be made here on
scale that will cheaper them so that he
poorest man can get them, Asheville
will be a great health resort. SO fully
am convinced OF its great future that
in February shall go TO Germany for
my family. We hope for sate return
in April and will thereafter make Ashe.
vile our home"
Professor klebs has the appearance OF
a man who has taken good care Of the
60 years of his life. HIS figure, of aver.
age height, is Inclined to be portly, and
his features are genial with good
nature. He impresses listener as being
man of unassuming manners, with alb.
solute sincerity OF purpose, and of benev-
olent disposition.
Professor klcbs is now associated with
Doctor Won Ruck in the management OF
the Winyah sanitarium and its labor
atorits. The laboratory for the manu-
facturiug of new remedies now being
completed at the Winyah will be oil
sufficient capacity to beg in the work OF
producing the medicine on limited
scale, but in the spring, after the Pro
tessor's return from Europe, the erection
OF more extensive works will be made
In the meantime the remedy will o
necessity be given only to a lin. ted mum
Der OF phy scinns until it eau be pro
duced on a large scale.
A successful issue of labors undertaken
bv Professor klebs in Germany for 6
remedy for the prevention of tubefculos'
IS probable in the near future, and tn,
labors will be continued here immcdi
ately.
At home the professor was and is {
leading, if not the leading, authority OF
medicine and the foremost men of hi
profession have pronounced him to b.
10 years ahead OF his time. He was ;
professor in the university OF Zurich il
Switzerland and previously in severa
German universities. Later he mad
Strasburg in Germany his home, whcr
he esta blshcd his private la aboratories 70
the investigation of infectious diseases
In his labors and microscopicalresea
Professor klcbs became greatly inter
ested in tuberculosis, and i'll tuberculoci
din he discovered he desired m dihcatio
of kochs tub,rculin, His continue
study and experiment produced antipl
thisne. the newest remedy ior the drea
dis.asc. He discovered the bacillus c
diphtheria and gave its remedy in ant,
: diI htheiiue. The manufacture OF thl
: meiicine will also be carried on i'll tn
new laboratories here,
The professor has been prolific co;
q tributor to the literature OF mediciu
and his labors in this line will not be il
, terrupted bv the work ne has assume
in this country.
: On his arrival in New York city II
u professor was shown marked attentio
I by the eminent physicians OF the mctrol
oils and his short STAY there was a Yer
), pleasant one.
U Prof. klebs coming to Astevil,c, an
l especially his taking up his residence her
. means a vast deal to this city. 1t W
! add an immense Importance to Ash,vil
II as a health resort