Martyr to Science.

Manawatu Herald, 30 July 1903, Page 2

Martyr to Science.

A young doctor named Milan Sachs, of Vienna, fell a victim to bis thirst for knowledge and died of plague at a Berlin hospital on June 6th. Dr Sachs, who was considered a very promising physician, had made plague research a specialty, and went to Berlin several weeks ago to' continue his studie's at the Bacteriological Institute: On June '2nd, while infusing germs into a rat, he cUt hhi hand and became infected. He went, to Oharlottenburg City Hospital, where the physicians, recognising the danger of infection, immediately placed the patient in an isolated barrack, where he died, despite all the efforts of the best physicians to save him After his death the house and all the belongings of the family with whom Dr Sachs had lived were disinfected, and everyone with whom the deceased had come in contract since his infection—his medical coworkers, doctors, nurses, and hospital employees—-were vaccinated and quarantined in an isolated barracks. Next day it was reported that the ' Minister of Education had prohibited any further experiments with plague germs.