March 24 commemorates the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch astounded the scientific community by announcing to a small group of scientists at the University of Berlin’s Institute of Hygiene that he had discovered the cause of tuberculosis, the TB bacillus. According to Koch’s colleague, Paul Ehrlich, “At this […]
5th Sunday of Easter, Year C – 2019
Nowadays, technology has changed things, of course. But at the end of the year, in the not-so-distant past, we used to see such advertisement in the doors of shops. Business was temporarily stopped to make a list of the remaining commodities and see what needed to be bought for the […]
4th Sunday of Lent, Year B
When told that something is free, or at a big discount, some people will rush to benefit from the offer. Others may be more suspicious wondering whether this is a genuine bargain or not. Could it be that we react in a similar way when what is on offer is… […]
X-Ray Day – 8 November
If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself… For brevity’s sake I shall use the expression ‘rays’; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them […]