[11] Horsley, Fullerian Lectures, 1891, loc. cit.
[12] See also the admirable Life of Pasteur, by M. Valléry-Radot. Translation by Mrs. Devonshire, vol. ii. p. 20.
[13] This account of Semmelweis, reprinted by permission from the Middlesex Hospital Journal, is mostly taken from Dr. Theodore Duka's excellent paper on "Childbed Fever." (Lancet, 1886.)
[14] See Pasteur's Life, vol. ii. p. 89.
[15] Dr. Legge, in his Milroy Lectures, 1905, on Industrial Anthrax (Lancet, March and April 1905), gives a full account of Sobernheim's work up to March 1904, and a table of seventy-six cases, treated with Sclavo's serum.
[16] See Dr. Flexner's account of the disease, in volume xix. of Stedman's Twentieth Century Practice.
[17] "The reports for 1893 are at present too few to be utilised for this table."
[18] "In Zukunft wird man es im Kampf gegen diese schreckliche Plage des Menschengeschlechtes nicht mehr mit einem unbestimmten Etwas, sondern mit einem fassbaren Parasiten zu thun haben, dessen Lebensbedingungen zum grössten Theil bekannt sind und noch weiter erforscht werden. Es müssen vor allen Dingen die Quellen, aus denen der Infektionsstoff fliesst, so weit es in menschlicher Macht liegt, verschlossen werden."
[19] At the British Congress on Tuberculosis, London, 1901, Koch stated that bovine tuberculosis and human tuberculosis are not one and the same disease, and that the risk of milk-infection is so small that burdensome restrictions ought not to be enforced. In the general judgment of men well qualified to study the subject, he failed to prove his point.
[20] For references to this paper, and to evidence put forward against the validity of the test, and for criticism of such evidence, see Gould's Year-Book of Medicine and Surgery, 1902 (Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders & Company).