Robert Koch And American Bacteriology

Author : Richard Adler
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476627053
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Koch and American Bacteriology written by Richard Adler and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-06-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In bacteriology's Golden Age (roughly 1870-1890) European physicians focused on bacteria as causal agents of disease. Advances in microscopy and laboratory methodology--including the ability to isolate and identify micro-organisms--played critical roles. Robert Koch, the most well known of the European researchers for his identification of the etiological agents of anthrax, tuberculosis and cholera, established in Germany the first teaching laboratory for training physicians in the new methods. Bacteriology was largely absent in early U.S. medical schools. Dozens of American physicians-in-training enrolled in Koch's course in Germany, and many established bacteriology courses upon their return. This book highlights those who became acknowledged leaders in the field and whose work remains influential.

Author : Thomas D. Brock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Koch, a Life in Medicine and Bacteriology written by Thomas D. Brock and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Koch's story is a stirring example of how a lone country doctor can rise above all odds to become a true scientific revolutionary. Winner of the Nobel Prize in 1905, Koch is best known today for his discoveries of the causal agents of tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax. His vital contributions to microbiological methodology also make him the founder of the field of bacteriology and central to the establishment of the disciplines of hygiene and public health.He was also a world traveler and made numerous important research expeditions to India (where he discovered the cause of cholera), Africa, and New Guinea. Koch's postulates, a series of guidelines for the experimental study of infectious disease, permitted Koch and his students to identify many of the causes of the most important infectious diseases of humans and animals. Even today Koch's postulates are considered whenever a new infectious disease arises.

Author : David C. Knight
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789123771
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Koch written by David C. Knight and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-13 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NO OTHER scientist has so aptly earned the title of “father” of his branch of science than Robert Koch. While Pasteur is regarded as the greatest applied bacteriologist, it was Koch who first perfected the pure techniques of cultivating and studying bacteria. When Koch succeeded in isolating the dreaded anthrax bacillus, he became the first to prove that a specific bacterium was the cause of a specific disease. He also developed four famous rules—still in use today—for relating one kind of bacteria to one kind of disease. Later, he succeeded in growing pure cultures of bacteria, an essential technique in modern bacteriology. In 1882, Koch astounded the scientific world by first isolating the tubercle bacillus—the cause of tuberculosis. Later he discovered tuberculin, a substance used in diagnosing tuberculosis today. A tireless worker, Koch went on to save thousands of lives, both human and animal, through his investigation of Asiatic cholera, sleeping sickness, malaria, Texas fever, rinderpest, and Rhodesian red water fever.

Author : Christoph Gradmann
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801893131
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Laboratory Disease written by Christoph Gradmann and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the nineteenth century, the new field of medical bacteriology identified microorganisms and explained how they spread disease. This book interweaves the history of this discipline and the biography of one of its founders, Nobel Prize–winning German physician Robert Koch (1843–1910). Koch contributed to modern medicine by inventing or improving fundamental techniques such as bacterial staining, solid culture media, mass pure cultures, and the use of animal models. His discoveries, which dominated medical science at the turn of the last century, are epitomized in a set of rules named after him. "Koch's Postulates" are still invoked today in attempts to prove the causal involvement of pathogens in infectious diseases. In a double history, Christoph Gradmann narrates the development of a discipline and the biography of a scientist. Drawing on Koch's extensive laboratory notes, Gradmann details how Koch developed his scientific method and discovered the bacterial causes of anthrax, tuberculosis, and cholera. Koch tried to bring this knowledge to clinical medicine by developing medicines that would specifically target the bacterial pathogens he identified. And Koch’s passion for personal travel developed into a career signature, as he became a pioneer in the study of tropical diseases. A fascinating look into Koch's personality and his experimental work in medical bacteriology, Laboratory Disease reveals both the biographical and the historical roots of our modern understanding of infectious diseases.

Author : Thomas Goetz
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1592409172
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Remedy written by Thomas Goetz and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-31 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting history of tuberculosis, the world’s most lethal disease, the two men whose lives it tragically intertwined, and the birth of medical science. In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accountable for a third of all deaths. A diagnosis of TB—often called consumption—was a death sentence. Then, in a triumph of medical science, a German doctor named Robert Koch deployed an unprecedented scientific rigor to discover the bacteria that caused TB. Koch soon embarked on a remedy—a remedy that would be his undoing. When Koch announced his cure for consumption, Arthur Conan Doyle, then a small-town doctor in England and sometime writer, went to Berlin to cover the event. Touring the ward of reportedly cured patients, he was horrified. Koch’s “remedy” was either sloppy science or outright fraud. But to a world desperate for relief, Koch’s remedy wasn’t so easily dismissed. As Europe’s consumptives descended upon Berlin, Koch urgently tried to prove his case. Conan Doyle, meanwhile, returned to England determined to abandon medicine in favor of writing. In particular, he turned to a character inspired by the very scientific methods that Koch had formulated: Sherlock Holmes. Capturing the moment when mystery and magic began to yield to science, The Remedy chronicles the stunning story of how the germ theory of disease became a true fact, how two men of ambition were emboldened to reach for something more, and how scientific discoveries evolve into social truths.

Author : Robert Koch
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays of Robert Koch written by Robert Koch and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1987-11-06 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of translations of some of Koch's important essays represents an important first. It includes three of his essays on anthrax, three on tuberculosis, two on cholera, one on wound infections, and a relective essay entitled On Bacteriological Research. These papers clearly reflect the coherence and inter-connectedness of Koch's thought. They include the initial presentation of his ideas and also provide examples of his tenacious and devasting responses to his critics. While they only represent some of the many areas of Koch's interests, they serve as excellent samples of his finest contributions. The volume also includes a long introduction which establishes the historical context of Koch's work and of the particular essays translated here.

Author : John Waller
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231131506
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discovery of the Germ written by John Waller and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charts how, why, and by whom germ theory was transformed from a hotly disputed speculation to a central tenet of modern medicine.

Author : Edgar March Crookshank
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Practical Bacteriology, Based Upon the Methods of Koch written by Edgar March Crookshank and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chung King-thom
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813200383
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pioneers In Microbiology: The Human Side Of Science written by Chung King-thom and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-08-23 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pasteurization, penicillin, Koch's postulates, and gene coding. These discoveries and inventions are vital yet commonplace in modern life, but were radical when first introduced to the public and academia. In this book, the life and times of leading pioneers in microbiology are discussed in vivid detail, focusing on the background of each discovery and the process in which they were developed — sometimes by accident or sheer providence.

Author : Grace C. Frankland
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bacteria in Daily Life written by Grace C. Frankland and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bacteria in Daily Life is a work by Grace C. Frankland. It delves into the intricate workings of bacteriology and provides detailed information on sunshine and life, airborne bacteria and related topics.