Robert Koch Quote: When Cause Follows Effect – Medical Wisdom Explained

This quote highlights poignantly that sometimes the result becomes visible before the true cause is understood – an important insight in medicine. Voltaire or Robert Koch or Marcus Tullius Cicero (allegedly) This 19th-century joke has been attributed to the philosopher Voltaire in the digitized texts (always without source citation) since 1994 and to the Nobel laureate in medicine Robert Koch since 2004. In 1896, this joke appeared in the following version in an Austro-Hungarian provincial newspaper in the section "Humor of the Week": "An exception." A professor announces from his chair: 'Therefore, the cause can never follow the effect, but the other way around --' 'Excuse me, Professor, I know of one exception.' 'Nonsense!' 'Yes, Professor. If, for example, a doctor accompanies a patient's body to the churchyard, the cause follows the effect.'" Anonymous: Monday Review from Bohemia, November 9, 1896, Section: Humor of the Week, p. 2

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