Micro- Organisms and their Relation to Disease. Ti 



they are not all of a disease-producing character ; every infectious 

 disease has its own microbe. These malignant microbes are 

 not present — not so largely present at all events — except in 

 centres where they have been more or less encouraged. That 

 has been shown by experiments in Berlin and other large cities. 

 With regard to what Mr. Brown said, Professor Virchow's 

 paper on the subject is a very strong argument against the 

 indiscriminate use of Koch's remedy. It came as a very great 

 shock to many people who thought, as the British Medical 

 journal said a week ago, that all they had to do was to have a 

 bottle of lymph and a syringe to cure everything. Prof. 

 Virchow shows the necessity for the most extreme caution in using 

 the remedy. So far as I know about the use of the remedy in 

 Belfast, I do not think there have been any deaths among the 

 patients treated ; but I just happen to know, from my own 

 experience, of eight people who came to me wanting to be 

 treated, which I very fortunately declined to do. These eight 

 people are now dead. Had I treated them, their deaths would, 

 no doubt, have been attributed to the remedy. 



The lecture was illustrated by a series of micro-photographs 

 of bacilli by Mr. John Brown. 



