136 Tue Microscore. 
remain forever memorable in the annals of medicine. Though 
it was full of chic and Attic salt, it cannot be said to have been 
seasoned properly, for the carnival was not to commence for 
some months yet.” | 
We regret that our valuable space cannot be more exhaust- 
ively devoted to the amusement of our readers; a brief abstract 
of some few passages of Peter’s lecture, which, intending to 
ridicule Koch, Pasteur, and Lustgarten, the discoverer of the 
syphilis-bacilli, ridiculed actually Peter alone, is all we can 
give: 
“The bacillus discovered by the ‘ Berliner Koch’ (why not 
the Prussian Cook?), and about which so much fuss is made, 
has no diagnostic value, as it is found in tuberculosis, syphilis, 
leprosy, and even the preputial smegma of healthy persons. 
True, there are some trivial differences in these bacilli as to 
form and coloring matters, but what does that signify, as bac- 
-teriologists admit themselves that morphological differences 
play no essential ré/e in the determination of the nature of a 
bacillus.” 
“What deplorable therapeutic results are there not ensuing 
from the views of the microbio-pathologists! They separate 
externally the tubercular subjects, and internally they give them 
alleged bacillus-killing drugs, such as creasote, carbolic acid, 
and heaven knows what other dirt. (‘Et on ne sait quelles 
saletés.’) I shall not cease to fight with word and letter against 
this mental aberration which confuses the brain of profession 
and laity alike.” 
No wonder that the impulsive youth from the quartier Latin 
brought a thundering ovation to their enlightened and coura- 
geous teacher, who had thus disproven and conquered definitely 
the “ Berliner Koch.” 
In cinclusion we have yet to allude to the nonsensical 
tribute paid to Peter by the Hvénement (a Paris newspaper), 
which brought the picture of Peter in the réle of George the 
Dragon-killer, and proclaimed at the termination of an article 
exornated with the usual Gallic élan and prestige, “‘ And so has 
the common sense of the Frenchman again annihilated a chim- 
erical product of German brains.”— Therapeutic Gazette. 
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