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as a simple country doctor, without
money and means, he devoted his
leisure time to scientific study, re-
search, experimentation and writing.
Soon the German government became
cognizant of Dr. Koch's writings and
recognizing his good work was not
slow to engage his services. Before
his day Jenner, Davaine, Lister and
,Pasteur developed the germ theory of
disease; Koch made of this theory the
science of bacteriology, which is today
the most potent factor Of civilization.
Pasteur declared it to be within hui
man power to Danish all parasitic dis
eases from the face of the earth;
Koch clearly demonstrated how this
business was to be gone about
In 1882 came his truly epochal dis
covery of the tubercle bacillus, the
essential cause of tuberculosis. Here
was laid down the sure and scientific
basis of the anti-tuberculosis propa-
ganda which has since been so sue
cessfully waging Upon this founda-
ton were preventative measures
formulated and with wonderful re-
suit up to our day. In Prussia (Koch's
country the consumption mortality
has been reduced forty per cent; in
Boston forty-five per cent; in New
York city fifty per cent; in our north
ern cities twenty per cent, in the
years 1905. And it is being conf
IDENTIFY predicted that our children,
yes even we in this generation, may
see this dreadful scourge all but elm
mated. Koch elaborated various tu-
berculins diagnostic of tuberculosis
but their curative value have unfor-
tunately proved disappointing, yet
they were the basis Of the wonderful
ly effective anti-toxins of diptheria,
tetanus, (the most agonizing of all dis
eases, of which formerly nearly all
sufferers died), meningitis, pneumo-
MIA, and other dreadful infections.
In 1884 he discovered the cholera
bacillus,' which is responsible for that
disease. In the investigation of other
world scourges - cancer, bubonic
plague, septic@mia (blood poisoning)
trypanosomiasis, cattle plague, an
thrax and malaria, Koch's part has
been most vital either as discoverer
or as originator or developer of pro-
phylaxis and curative methods.
He showed how malaria could be
absolutely vanquished by stamping it
out of the island of Brien, in the Adri-
attic, under commission of the Austri-
an government. In Bombay he stud
led the Bubonic plague at first hand.
When long past three score years, he
repaired to a desolate island in Vic
toria Nyanza, Africa, his only white
companion being an army surgeon;
and throughout the whole of eighteen
months they together saw but three
other whites. A rough canoe, hewn
out of a single log, was their only
means of communication with the
mainland. There Koch discovered the
crocodile's blood to form the chief
nourishment of the tzetze fly, the
bloodsucking insect that transfers the
trypanosmes which are the specific
cause of sleeping sickness, and elab-
GRATED most important prophylactic
and curative measures against this
melancholy disease.
This faithful servant of his race
never rested. Coming from Africa, he
took part in the International Con-
gress at Washington, observing then:
II wish to devote myself for several
years to come, to further investiga-
tons of these problems and this in
his sixty-ffth year
Thus Koch's sojourn among us
means this: Formerly men folded
their hands supinely in the presence
of horrible infections; now we know
that by means extraordinarily simple