1884

Chevalier Jackson enters Jefferson Medical College, where Samuel Gross did his best to teach the new methods of antiseptic surgery (Jackson, 57-61). Welch accepts Billings’ offers of Professorship of Pathology at Johns Hopkins (Crowe, 11; Flexner, 128ff.) and heads back to Germany for an additional year of study, culminating in Koch’s first public course in pathology in Berlin in July 1885 (Flexner, 147). Osler appointed Professor of Clinical Medicine at University of Pennsylvania (Corner, 167-73). Halsted experiments with cocaine nerve blocks (regional anesthesia) (Crowe, 25-29). The term “bacteriology” first came into general use (Finney, 327). Koch’s first publication of “Koch’s postulates” in the form used today. He was anticipated by his collaborator Loeffler, who published the postulates in relation to diphtheria in 1883 (Brock, 179-182). Metchnikoff publishes first paper applying phagocytic theory to human disease (anthrax) (Silverstein, 47).