"That a malady so widely disseminated and so unmanageable as the tubercular variety of phthisis pulmonalis, or what is popular known as consumption, must, in its beginnings, be microscopic in character, has for years been suspected by students of medicine. That the patient and persistent labors of one individual, , should at last have at last revealed it, may be almost, but is not quite, beyond belief. The fullness of time for such a discovery had been indicate by the great amount of research, in regard to both the and of the disease."