Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1890 — DR. KOCH. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DR. KOCH.

The Discoverer ot the Alleged Curb for Consumption. The story of the life of Dr. Robert Koch is interesting. He was bom in Clausthal, Germany, on Dec. 11, 1843, and is, therefore, a comparatively ytiting man still, being only 47 years old. I He graduated in medicine in 1866, at Goettingen, and settled down to practice his profession in Buckwitz, Posen. From 1872 until 1880 he devoted himself! almost exclusively to the study of chemistry and bacteriology, and was so successful in the latter direction that he

was appointed a member of the Health Board of the empire. His studies led him to the conclusion that tuberculosis or consumption was caused by the presence in the body of a minute germ, and his publication of an article announcing that theory caused a sensation throughout the medical world. This publication was followed by others, and Dr. Koch’s name because sp famous that he was made privy coiifiselor, and was put in charge by the Emperor of a scientific expedition to Egypt and India, with a view of studying the cholera. It was on this expedition that he discovered the cholera germ, and for his invaluable services he received a handsome financial reward from the Emperor, and was made a professor in the Imperial Hygienic Institute in Berlin, which chair he still occupies.

DR. KOCH.