KOCHER EMIL THEODOR: (1841-1917) Swiss Physician and medical Researcher. Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1909 for his work in the surgery of the thyroid. First Swiss citizen and first Surgeon to ever receive a Nobel prize. A.L.S., Kocher, two pages, small 8vo, Bern, 17th August 1888, to a colleague, on his printed stationery, in German. The letter contains Kocher´s medical tips regarding his colleague´s patient. Kocher is not sure if the symptoms described by his correspondent is cancer or not and states `I can´t consider the swelling as cancer now, although cancer often results from swellings like this. If so, the surgery will be too late´. Kocher hopes that the patient will recover and gives further medication advice `0,2 Iodine-potash´, and recommends Aachen (Aix-La-Chapelle) for convalescence therapy. VG. £250-350