OPPOSE DR. KOCH’S THEORY.
American Pbfiiolaiu, ted by a Chicago Man, Exprcw Their Disbelief in Hl* Idea*. The theory advanced by Prof. Koch that tuberculosis germ» were not communicable from the bovine bo the human animal has failed to meet with the approval of the physicians of America. At the twenty-ninth annual convention of the American Health association, held in Buffalo the other day, resolutions assailing the Koch theory were passed. Dr. Liston H. Montgomery, of Chicago, who attended that convention, has returned to Chicago and bold’ of the work done by the convention. It was Dr. Montgomery who introduced the resolutions assailing the Koch theory and demanding that proper precautions be taken to prevent the spread of consumption. These resolutions were passed by a vote of 59 to 1. At the convention, which was attended by eminent specialists from Canada, the United States and Mexico, the first day’s session tvas devored to the discussion of the causes’ for i liberculosis and the methods best calculated to prevent its spread.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 2172, 10 March 1903, Page 3
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