Albert Calmette (1863-1933) and the tuberculosis problem

Abstract

Calmette was gone; the man whose name had been associated with the hopes of solving the tuberculosis problem for the past 10 years was gone - all of a sudden, all of a sudden. It was hard to imagine that a man who dared to engage the enemy, who on his shield counted more than a hundred million human lives and dozens of brave scientists among them, was already at an age when one is more willing to look back on the road traveled than on the remaining one.