Tuberculosis

a more general and, in many respects, a more fitting name for the wasting disease known as consumption. The name is derived from the minute tubercles which are formed by the bacilli in various tissues of the body. The bacillus of tuberculosis is a rod-shaped bacterium. It was discovered and described in 1882 by Dr. Robert Koch (1843-1910), a distinguished German bacteriologist who, a year later, discovered the bacillus, the presence of which is a sure test for Asiatic cholera. See Consumption