Abstract

The promises of science relative to the causal treatment of tuberculosis have so far remained unfulfilled. The German scientific minds, once carried away by the wildest millennial dreams, now stand humbled on the threshold of great discoveries and bow to defeat. But defeat is godsend here, for it is the only path which can lead to revolutionary discoveries in science. Koch reasoned well, and with that indomitable will so characteristic of our Teuton colleagues, he followed up his reasoning in the laboratory with an indefatigable energy that still baffles our greatest bacteriologists. A glycerite of dead tubercle bacilli was his reward. Whence came defeat? The question suggests the answer. If by flawless reasoning and logical deduction we arrive at error, it is time to suspect our premises. Every exact science calls for a working hypothesis universal in application and immutable as time. Without such a hypothesis there can be no

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