Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2054

ROBERT KOCH (1843-1910) Die Aetiologie der Tuberkulose. (In Berliner klinische Wochenschrift. Vol. 19 (1882), pp. 221-230.) 30.5 cm.

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This brief journal article, in which Koch first states the actual cause of tuberculosis to be the tubercle bacillus and not nutritional deficiencies (as was widely believed), is a medical classic. His discovery helped enormously in the control of widespread affliction. For his work on tuberculosis, Koch received the 1905 Nobel prize.

Cited references: Cushing K147; Garrison-Morton 2331; Waller 5338a

Gift of John Martin, M.D.