The anonymous drawing (signed AS) of Robert Koch as the “new St. George,” armed with a microscope to vanquish the hydra of tuberculosis was first published in the Berlin satirical magazine Ulk on November 14, 1890, with the title „Ein Wohltäter der Menschheit: Der neue Ritter St. Georg” (A Benefactor of Humanity: the New Knight St. George). The drawing may have expressed joy over the discovery, as well as skepticism of the new “specialty treatment,” a substance of unknown composition, guaranteed only by the famous name of the inventor. In December, it was reprinted in William Thomas Stead’s The Review of Reviews (2 (1890), 547-560, 548). Stead’s article – citing the testimony of A. C. Doyle – protests against the “boycott” tuberculin on the side of British medical authorities, but, rather unkindly to the Berlin Professor, defends him together with other alternative cures of the day, ignored by the establishment.