Medical College her pathology teacher mentioned,

le atypical form of this mycobacterium, melded from the mycobacterium and other related Actinomycetales. Had medical science and the powers that be spent as much time in investigating and destroying Livingston’s germ as they 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. rather disparagingly, that there was a woman pa-thologist at Cornell who thought Hodgkin’s disease (a form of glandular cancer) was caused by avian tuberculosis [1]. This lady had published, but no one had confirmed her findings. Afterwards, Liv-large multinucleated giant cells were called the tubercle bacilli. Livingston stored away in her memory that the lady pathologist was probably right but she would have a difficult time in gaining acceptance. By 1931, Pathologist Elsie L’Esperance was see-ing ‘acid fast ’ tuberculosis-like bacteria riddling her Hodgkin’s tissue samples. And that germ, once injected into guinea pigs, caused them to com