Robert Koch

Standard Name: Koch, Robert

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1840: German doctor Robert Koch began developing...

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1840

German doctor Robert Koch began developing the famous four Henle-Koch postulates to establish the connection between a bacterium and a disease.
Duin, Nancy, and Jenny Sutcliffe. A History of Medicine: From Prehistory to the Year 2020. Simon and Schuster, 1992.
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Shryock, Richard Harrison. The Development of Modern Medicine: An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved. University of Wisconsin Press, 1979.
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24 March 1882: At a meeting of the Berlin Physiological...

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24 March 1882

At a meeting of the Berlin Physiological Society, Robert Koch announced that he had identified the tubercle bacillus.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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Bynum, William F. Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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Duin, Nancy, and Jenny Sutcliffe. A History of Medicine: From Prehistory to the Year 2020. Simon and Schuster, 1992.
57
Shryock, Richard Harrison. The Development of Modern Medicine: An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved. University of Wisconsin Press, 1979.
286
Dolan, Josephine A. History of Nursing. 12th ed., Saunders, 1968.
241-2
Langer, William L., editor. An Encyclopedia of World History: Ancient, Medieval and Modern, Chronologically Arranged. Houghton Mifflin, 1952.
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Specialist histories do not confirm Hellemans' note of this event.

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