RT Journal
T1 ADdress.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD December 16
VO XXXIII
IS 25
SP 1509
OP 1514
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450770001001
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450770001001
AB ON LATENT INFECTION AND SUBINFECTION, AND ON THE ETIOLOGY OF HEMOCHROMATOSIS AND PERNICIOUS ANEMIA.* 
    BY J. GEORGE ADAMI, M. A., M. D., F. R. S. E.PROFESSOR OF PATHOLOGY, M'GILL UNIVERSITY.MONTREAL, CANADA.I can remember, as well as though it were yesterday, sitting in the large bacteriologic laboratory at the Institut Pasteur, close upon ten years ago, and hearing Roux, that clearest of lecturers, recount step by step the fascinating story of the discovery of the anthrax bacillus and the elucidation of the etiology of splenic fever— the history, in short, of the establishment of bacteriology as a science directly bearing on disease. More especially there remains vividly impressed upon me the almost paradoxic point which Roux then made, that mistaken facts and incomplete observations accepted as facts may be of temporary benefit and may aid advance. As Roux pointed out, the most clinching argument brought forward by Davaine,