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hatred of a few scoffers— amongst them of the coarse, brow-beating 

 Bismark — and the admiration and gratitude of his native land and all 

 mankind. 



His like we shall not see again, perhaps need not see again, because 

 men endowed with high talents will do enough when building on the 

 foundations. If there be anything I am proudest of in my comparatively 

 humble life it is the honor of his friendship which I enjoyed these last 

 20 years." 



" Only a great master like Virchow," says Osier, "could 

 have won the profession away from a belief in the unity of 

 phthisis, which the genius of lysennec had on anatomical ground 

 announced. Here and there a teacher, as Wilso?i Fox, 

 protested, Init the heresy prevailed, and we repeated the 

 striking aphorism of Niemeyer, ' The greatest evil which 

 can happen to a consumptive is that he should become 

 tuberculous.' " 



Concerning the development of the idea that tuberculosis 

 was a disease of infective nature, you will be surprised, 

 perhaps, to learn that a Greek physician and a c^ontemporary 

 of Aristotle asked " Why are those taken by phthisis, who 

 are brought into contact with the sufferers, and not taken by 

 such diseases as drops}-, fever and apoplexy, however close 

 the contact with sttfferers from this disease may be? ', 



"Phthisis," he further adds, "is obviously infectious 

 because it spoils the air and makes it heavy, and thus others 

 become infected." Galen was fully cognizant of the fact that 

 phthisis was an infective process, and that there was danger 

 living with those affected with it. 



"During tlie dark ages," says a gifted writer, 

 "Mohammedanism exliibited a scientific enlightenment, the 

 spirit of which is not excelled in modern civilization." 



There was among them a wonderful development in 

 nearly all the arts and sciences ; and among the brightest 

 gems in this intellectual crown was Saracenic medicine. 

 Avicenna, the Arabian, 1037, who, like the best observers of 

 antiquity, had definite ideas regarding the infectivity of 

 constimption, referred to "many diseases which are taken 

 from man to man like phthisis." In the seventeenth century 

 "The Practice of Physic" by lyazerus Reverius, published 



