| [ophthalmic tuberculosis, especially in denmark]. | the contagiousity of tuberculosis was demonstrated by carl j. salomonsen in 1877, injecting human caseous material in rabbit eyes, causing granulomatous iritis. it was five years before robert koch found the bacterium: mycobacterium tuberculosis (mt). marius tscherning as professor emeritus from the university of copenhagen, injected bovine mt and sanocrysin (mølgaard's goldderivate) into rabbit eyes, causing corneal phlyctenules, but no ophthalmic reaction developed with only mt or sanocrysin a ... | 2001 | 11855372 |