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Excerpt from Proceedings of the Philadelphia County Medical Society, Vol. 21: Session of 1900 Fortunately for mankind this gloomy prediction has, with advancing knowledge, lost its impressiveness. In 1882, seven years later, Robert Koch made known to the world the actual cause Of the tuberculous dis eases, including pulmonary consumption, in the tubercle bacillus. This discovery marked a new era in medical history. With it, bacteriology assumed an established position among the medical sciences. With it the mystery that surrounded pulmonary consumption came to an end. Doubts and uncertainties remained and still remain, but the matter passed from the region of uncertain hypothesis to that of scientific fact. Pulmonary consumption ceased to be an unknowable scourge due to1900] necessity for isolation OF poor consumptives. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.