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Popularly Treated, by Max Birnbaum

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Title: Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated

Author: Max Birnbaum

Translator: Fr. Brendecke

Release Date: November 7, 2008 [EBook #27181]

Language: English

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[Illustration: DR. ROBERT KOCH.]

PROF. KOCH'S

_METHOD TO CURE_

TUBERCULOSIS

_POPULARLY TREATED_

BY

DR. MAX BIRNBAUM.

_TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN_

BY

DR. FR. BRENDECKE.

_With an Appendix being Prof. Koch's First Communication
on the Subject, translated from the_

_DEUTSCHE MEDICINISCHE WOCHENSCHRIFT_

_and explanatory notes by the author._

MILWAUKEE, WIS.,
H. E. HAFERKORN,
PUBLISHER.
1891.

COPYRIGHT 1890,
BY
H. E. HAFERKORN.

PRESS OF THE
HARTMANN PRINTING CO.,
126 Reed St.,
MILWAUKEE, WIS.

Translators Preface.

Consumption is curable. From time to time the news of some great
discovery rushes over the land like a mighty wave; but never before has
the intelligence of a great achievement been received with such
universal delight. There is hardly a man, woman or child that does not
bewail the loss of some dear relative taken away by Tuberculosis, the
most terrible of all foes. More terrible because it stealthily creeps