CHAPTEE XXI 



Hygiene Congress in Vienna — ^Wiesbaden — ^Munich — Paris and Pasteur 

 — Berlin and Koch — ^Failure of anthrax vaccination of sheep — 

 Decision to leave Kussia. 



In 1887 we went to Vienna, where a Congress of 

 Hygienists was held, m which, for the first time, 

 bacteriologists took part. MetchnikofE thus had the 

 opportunity of becoming acquainted with many of 

 them and to make inquiries concerning bacteriological 

 laboratories. Professor Hueppe, of Wiesbaden, very 

 kindly invited him to come to work in his own. The 

 idea pleased MetchnikofE, who thought that a peaceful 

 little University town would be very favourable to 

 his work. But he found that his situation would be 

 very difficult at Wiesbaden on account of the lack of 

 harmony between the different laboratories in the 

 town ; he therefore gave up the project which had 

 seemed to him so tempting. 



By this time many objections had been raised 

 against the phagocyte theory, and, Emmerich having 

 attacked him very violently, MetchnikofE went to 

 Mimich to have an explanation with him. This gave 

 him the opportunity of realising that Munich, like 

 Wiesbaden, was not a place where he would care to 

 settle. 



He had a great desire to know Pasteur and his 

 collaborators, who had just been playing such an 



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