Edited by
JOYCE TOMBRAN-TINK
COLIN J. BARNSTABLE
JOSEPH F. RIZZO III

2007

New Hope in Sight

The history of medicine has been substantially defined by a small number of monumental discoveries. Most of these breakthroughs have emerged from the biological sciences. One of the first great breakthroughs was the recognition by Koch in 1884 that pathogens could be transmitted from one living organism to another to cause disease.