1897

First International Leprosy Conference convenes in Berlin, with Virchow as president and speakers including Koch and Hansen. Hansen’s paper was the centerpiece of the conference, and his argument for isolation as the key to preventing spread of leprosy was adopted by Conference (Edmond, 102-105). A year later a new Leprosy Committee established by London College of Physicians finally conceded the College’s 1867 Report was ill-founded, and that the communicability of leprosy was “an established fact” (108).