[hardy-l] Robert Koch

[Jane E Thomas]

Hi Tom
 
Hardy's Literary Notes I : 859 
 
Splenetic fever - a virulent disease. Organisms in the diseased blood which resembled under the micpe transparent rods. ...A young German physician named Koch experimented on them under the micpe they grew, little dots appeared, the transparent integument fell to pieces, its place being taken by rows of seeds [like peas or gilliflowers] These seeds produced the infection after being kept for 4 years.' Bjork notes that this summary comes from John Tyndall, 'Fermentation, and its Bearing on the Phenomena of Disease', Fort. Rev., xx (1 Nov 1876) 556. Hardy's notes 855 - 859 all come from this article. Both the relevant issue of the Fortnightly Review and Bjork Lennart (ed)  The Literary Notebooks of Thomas Hardy  Vols 1 and 2 are in the Brynmor Jones Library at Hull University UK.
 
Tony probably knows more, as Rosemarie suggested.
 
Cheers
Jane
 
Dr J.E.Thomas
Senior Lecturer
Department of English
University of Hull
East Yorkshire
HU6 7RX
 
e-mail: j.e.thomas at hull.ac.uk

 
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