Tuberculin and the living cell : an inquiry as to how the one aids the other in the fight against tuberculosis / by Charles Denison.
- Charles Denison
- Date:
- [1892]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Tuberculin and the living cell : an inquiry as to how the one aids the other in the fight against tuberculosis / by Charles Denison. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![[Reprinted from The Medical News, September 17,1892.] TUBERCULIN AND THE LIVING CELL:1 An Inquiry as to How the One Aids the Other in the Fight Against Tuberculosis. BY CHARLES DENISON, A.M., M.D., OF DENVER, COLORADO. The wonderful discovery of the bacillus of tubercle had not been demonstrated a longer time than might be reasonably expected before its consequent —the specific cure of tuberculosis—was, it now ap- pears, too hastily given to the world by the same earnest student of nature, Robert Koch, of Berlin. The history of these two great discoveries is in- teresting and familiar to every student of medical progress, and needs no repetition here. But what is most remarkable is the present attitude of the great mass of the medical profession toward this second discovery—tuberculin—now, nearly a year and a half after it was given out for use in America. The failure of distinguished men in the use of the remedy, according to the rules laid down by its discoverer, seems to have led to a feeling almost universally hostile to its employment. Editorial comments in medical journals are sneering and derisive in tone; authors in sections of the American Medical Asso- ciation refer to the “failure” of tuberculin as a 1 Read at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the American Climato- logical Association, held at Richfield Springs, June 22, 23, and 24, 1892.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22381454_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
