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Show Great Doctor, Qreat Hero. Dr. Franz Mueller of Vienna, whu fell u victim to tho bubonic plague when that dlacuMc waa lirst under bacteriological bac-teriological Investigation In that city In 1807 contracted the malady from bncilli In culture tubes. When he became be-came curtain that he wan infected he Immediately locked hlmsolf In un isolated iso-lated room and pasted a message on a wlndowpaae: "I am Buffering from the plague. I'leaso do not nond a doctor to me, us I In any event my end will como In four or llvo dnys." At ouco n number of his associates, all of them youne nhvsIelnnN. with i much to live for nnd with full knowl- edge of tho chances to which they would oxposo themselves, stepped forward for-ward find not only offered their serv I Ices, but in some ruses begged to be J Hcut to Dr. Mueller. Thy patient re-. re-. fused to permit It nnd died nlono with-' with-' In tho time predicted. At tho und ho wrote a farewell letter let-ter to his pnrenta nnd placed it against the window, so that It could bo copied from tho outside, and then burned tho ; original with his owu hands, fearful I that it might bo preserved and carry out the mysterloiiH nnd deadly germ. |
