The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1910-06-07
KOCH, THE BACTERIoLoGlsT.
Achievements of Scientist Famed For
Tuberculosis and Cholera Work.

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F! tuberculosis and Cholera Work.
In the annals of the study of bac-
teriology no name occupies more
| illustrious position than that of Pro
fessor Robert Koch. the famous bac
terioIogist. who died recently at Badon
Baden. Germany.
DR.. Koch was born at Klausthal
| Hanover, Germany, on Dec. II, 1913
He developed and elaborated the dis
| coveries and theories of Lister, Pas
teur and others and vastly improved
the methods and technique of bacteri
| illogical investigation until 1t has be-
| come the real science of preventive
medicine. DR.. Kochs entire life was
given to painstaking and persercrin2
but bold and original research in mcd
cine, particularly in the Development
and extension of our knowledge of the
disease bearing germs and their be
havior under all possible conditions af
| fecting human health.
| The German doctor visited America
| in 1908 after lie had completed q year
and half of close study of the 'slepp
| ing sickness" in an island In South AT
RIGA For this strange malady he dis,
covered palliative, not cure
| DIR. Koch's career as an investigator
began after his graduation from Got
| tingen IN 1866 AS early as 1876 he
had isolated the bacillus of the an.
| thrax Preventive incubation against
disease by the use of serum or lymph
the development OF the Jenner meth
cd of vaccination--is a method which
| one might almost say originated with
Dr. Koch After his discoveries as to
the nature of the bacillus causing an
| thrax he devoted himself to the study
of the tuberculosis germ and to the SO
called comma" bacillus identified With
the cause of cholera.
It was by the discovery and use Of
tuberculin, popularity known as Koch's
lymph. that his fame became world
wide. This tuberculin, which lie pre-
pared in 1891. he himself claimed to b.
useful only in pulmonary tuberculosis.
combining its use to the comparatively
early stages of the disease.
Koch's investigation and discoveries
with regard to the cholera bacillus
have been the foundation of inveStIga
tons carried on In Egypt in India ana
In other Asiatic countries and lstyt
made possible much more definite
knowledge OF epidemic cholera cendi
lions and methods of preventing The
spread of the disease. He Went to th
infected regions, putting his life in
constant danger. Month by month IL
worked until he discovered the thoipr;.
bacillus.
Wide and generous recognition of Dr.
KoCh's scientific achievements has
been given him not only by his own
but by other governments. In 1850 hy
became a member of the force of lls,
imperial health office at Berlin. Thr;4
years later he was made priyy coun
cilor. and in 1885 he was appointed
director of the new hygienic institute
of the University of Berlin He went
TO Italy. Egypt and India in 1884 Il
the head of the German cholera com
mission and on his return was deco
rated by the emperor and preselie.a
with 100000 marks t$25.0O0l in rero.
milton of his services in discovering u
cholera bacillus. A year later he wen
to France as the German government
official cholera commissioner. In 1891
upon the founding of the institute fu
infectious diseases in Berlin. he wa;
made director. In 1905 the Nobel priz.
for achievements in physiology WIS
awarded to him.