Koch makes it of especial importance, that while treating consumption with the new remedy, the general attendance and nursing is not to be neglected. Koch also calls attention to what has been said before, that the general hygienic factors, good hospital treatment, mountain climate, etc., will never be dispensed with, on the contrary will be indispensible to the furtherance of cure. In conclusion Koch again remarks that brilliant results are only promised in the early stages of pulmonary consumption (phthisis). Physician and patient must move all levers as to the existence or non-existence of tuberculous diseases. Then those daily pictures of extreme wretchedness from consumption will be a thing of the past. Then the danger of contagion will be lessened resulting from the decrease of the number of tuberculous persons and of the tubercle-bacilli, and perhaps it will soon be possible to name the day on which with the last tubercle-bacillus the ravaging pest, tuberculosis, will be extirpated. +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Inconsistent use of develops/developes, and centres/centers | | has been retained as in the original. | +-------------------------------------------------------------+