The prevention of consumption : a mode of prevention founded on a new theory of the nature of the tubercle-bacillus / by C. Candler.
- Candler, C.
- Date:
- 1887
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The prevention of consumption : a mode of prevention founded on a new theory of the nature of the tubercle-bacillus / by C. Candler. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![THE VIEW OF THE ACCIDENTAL PARASITISM OF THE BACILLUS TUBERCULOSIS. When Koch, made known his grand discovery, and it became the common property of the etiological world, it was of course open to accept, or reject, his facts and his inferences, either wholly or in part, according to the nature of the evidence he produced, or according to the weight of the evidence in the estimation of the different schools. Indeed, at the present day, although most sections of the profession acknowledge with acclaim that he has deter- mined the specific agency of the bacillus in tuberculosis, yet some sections differ widely from his views on many points connected with the dissemination of tuberculosis. And I have ventured, whilst accepting his facts with the highest admiration for his pathological research, to chal- lenge his conclusion from his subordinate but yet important botanical work. I cannot accept such a large inference, even from one so distinguished, u]3on what would appear to be slight grounds; and, after giving the subject much thought, I have reached the opposite inference to his— the one he rejected—namely, that the bacillus is an acci- dental parasite. The issue will have to be tried sooner or later on its abstract merits. If we pass from the botanical side of this question, where so little is really known, to the clinical and other aspects of it, we shall soon find definite and cogent reasons](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21045070_0043.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
