^Lot 191 Albert Calmette

Distinguished French physician and researcher (1863–1933) who made a number of important discoveries in bacteriology and who developed the first antidote for snake venom. ALS in French, signed “A. Calmette,” one page both sides, 4.25 x 7, Institut Pasteur letterhead, July 3, 1908. Letter to a colleague. In part (translated): “With all my heart I hope that you will be Hoselle's successor in Alexandria. It's a position far more suitable for you that for Hoselle who is not a doctor (even though everyone calls him Dr., even professor). He's just a Canadian agronomist. I wonder how he can get a chair at Yale University since he has no title other than that of bacteriophage or rather of transmissible microbial decomposition. He fooled those English suckers with his cholera treatment about which we remain more than sceptical.Perhaps you're coming to the Hygiene Congress in Cairo in December. Some of our comrades will attend.” In fine condition.