Robert Koch and the ‘golden age’ of bacteriology

Robert Koch: a life in medicine and bacteriology

recurring "innovations" in institutional reform, T. G. Davies on Ernest Jones (not quite the demolition job that the Introduction implies), and Virginia Berridge on the vicissitudes of the disease model of addiction. James Birley's 1974 lecture, the first in the book, compares the work of psychiatrists and painters; Berrios's entire essay (1988), the last, can be read as an amplification of Bir...

Robert Koch

Robert Koch: The Grandfather of Cloning?

This year marks the centenary of Robert Koch's Nobel Prize for discovering the cause of tuberculosis. Koch was also the first scientist to isolate the anthrax and cholera microbes. Yet perhaps one of his greatest contributions to biology is the least appreciated: his method for propagating individual colonies of bacteria on plates, a technique that came to be called cloning.

Early clinical pathologists: Robert Koch (1843-1910).

Robert Koch and the cholera vibrio: a centenary.

On 2 February 1884 Robert Koch reported from Calcutta to the German Secretary of State for the Interior his reasoned conviction that the vibrio found in the intestines and stools of cholera victims was the causal agent of the disease.' This was the sixth of seven dispatches sent over a period of 24 weeks, all but the third of which were published in the German official gazette and thus made ava...