134 Early Work in North America 



Pathological building, so-called, for instruction and experimental 

 research in pathology and bacteriology. W. H. Welch had been 

 since 1884 Baxley Professor of Pathology there, and was recently 

 home from study in Koch's iirst public course in bacteriology and 

 had been an attendant or auditor of other courses in the new 

 science, based on Koch's early instruction/^^ 



Welch's able associate at Johns Hopkins was W. T. Council- 

 man, and among the seventeen physicians enrolled in 1886^^® as 

 advanced students or special investigators in the laboratory was 

 Dr. G. M. Sternberg who in 1887 published in the American 

 Journal of Medical Science on the thermal death-points of patho- 

 genic organisms. While in Europe, Welch had learned much 

 about diseases of animals, and not infrequently he was consulted 

 by officials of the Bureau of Animal Industry to help diagnose 

 some of the more puzzling maladies or determine the efficacy of 

 some remedy. 



In 1886 Theobald Smith was appointed a professor of bacteri- 

 ology in the Columbian (now George Washington) University, 

 and from this institution in 1890 would be graduated as a doctor 

 of medicine another graduate in science from Cornell University, 

 Veranus Alva Moore, who that year also began a fuUtime employ- 

 ment as an investigator of infectious diseases with the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry. 



They were the men who in 1889 and 1890 were to help shape 

 the directions of research when M. B. Waite and Erwin Smith in 

 the Section of Vegetable Pathology would equip laboratories and 

 begin investigating diseases of plants in those cases where a bac- 

 terial origin either was proven or was suspected. 



In 1887 Erwin Smith's paramount wish was to add " to the sum 

 total of human knowledge, and the world's progress," and to 

 make people happier. ^^^ His accomplishments in science were to 

 be the media by which to achieve these ends. 



"^ W^/llia??2 Henry Welch, etc., op. cit., chap. VIII, pp. 139-147. 

 ^""^ Johns Hopkins Circulars 51: 123, 18S6; 55: 64, 1887. 

 ^^' Letter from Smith to Viola Holmes, January 23, 1887. 



