DR KOCH'S BUMPS

Bay of Plenty Times, Issue 3033, 9 October 1893, Page 4

DR KOCH'S BUMPS

The famous Berlin doctor, whose alleged " cure for consumption" has for months pasi been the talk o! scientific Europe, has had hife bumps examined by a phrenologist. The profound phrenologist finds that the doctor "is quite youthful in his manner, having the organ of agreeableness large." He Informs us gravely that the doctor "caa keep his own affairs to himself." He is of 3iinion.that "be must have been remtrkaWt I through his youth (ul days for his miny schemes, projects, plans, and lnvtfltlont." It fi inferesUng to kven, tm Uit^iiifKS peachtble authqrity of phrenok»gy 4 thtt tM doctor "is a man of more thin tvtfM» integrity, and anxious to estibllsh whttll tnic," and that A* he i« not t trifter, btttk reliable: 11 ; '«#*^^ -, Uttii we attjinfornied that a Ub ttmtiM: ably mdttstHoßs, and has ifoi I miftjfte f€ Ioscl" - *. ; -.:• ':- ■>'■-.' A .>v ,P-- : -i'.^Jtflir^j ■:■ ; ;.( jTluigreat doripr." has, a liveiy berceptioj Of the ,m|rtjiful and «ibsur4" ; it is pM-' hoped v that" he has rea^ what twleartieo' : professor of phrenblogy'ttas written abbti? - hfs head. Phrenology is a very profound Science, j • ' : .: [ .-..^ -;-::■. ■ *„; |i . ; Aye may ihat Dr. Koch was born in 1343. in the Hartz Mountalh%. He" took his medical 1 degree in 1866, atid first attracted ■ attention hy a book •• on the methods of the artjticial dyeing or «iicrog<;6ptc objects, . espocially of baelecia. " Jj[e i(lentihed. the ■ germs x»f cfiolera a.ni\ of cattFe disease, as well as of'consumptioti. ] i 1 His appearance is qniw ordinaty ; he does • ? not get up until nine, he works, in a. coat like j a lady's dresijing gown, he gossips with his friends every evening' until midnight, and his favourite iJeverage is 1 s^da-wjiter. «,