THE GERM THEORY
Sir,—Dr. Fere’s suggestion that tuberculosis may be associated with organic calcium deficiency, is one for which ample authority may be cited. To dismiss it as “sheer nonsense” is to exhibit not only want of courtesy, but also of consideration for one of wide experience and genuine insight into the nature and causes of disease. One of the finest men and most successful physicians America has produced, Dr. Henry Lindlahr, wrote of the germ theory as “delightfully simple, comprehensible to the least intelligent.” This simplicity, without doubt, benefits the Health Department. Unfortunately it is a “flimsy basis,” with- its ‘crude explanations” of complex phenomena. Until this is realised by the health authorities, their brusque appraisals and ill-considered ukases are of small value.—Yours, etc., NEMO. October 7, 1952.
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Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26856, 8 October 1952, Page 3
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