Reprints of three editorials regarding the priority in demonstrating the toxic effect of matter accompanying the tubercle baccillus and its nidus.

  • Samuel Gibson Dixon
Date:
1890-1891
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Credit: Reprints of three editorials regarding the priority in demonstrating the toxic effect of matter accompanying the tubercle baccillus and its nidus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    [Editorial in The American Naturalist, February, 1891.] EDITORIAL. Now that the first excitement regard- ing the new remedy for tuberculosis has subsided, the time seems opportune to glance back at the events of the past eighteen months, which have proved rich in scientific research in relation to the tubercle bacillus, and to place on record, not only for our own satisfaction, or even for those more immediately concerned, but especially for the benefit of succeeding generations, the announcements that have been made public from time to time in regard to that microbe, and the means that have been discovered for combating its ravages on the animal economy. The endless and often embittered con- troversies which constantly occupy the literary world almost invariably arise from the fact that no plain contemporaneous record was made at the time, which would have placed the question beyond the range of argument. To cite a case in point—the circumstances surrounding the sale by Oliver Goldsmith of the ' 'Vicar of Wake-
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