Koch's Discovery of the Tubercle Bacillus—Its Importance and Significance
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It was just fifty years ago that Robert Koch made the epoch-making discovery of the tubercle bacillus as the cause of tuberculosis. The first announcement of this discovery was made by him in March 1882 before a meeting of the Physiological Society of Berlin and the modern era of tuberculosis may be said to begin from that date. Before this discovery tuberculosis was believed to be due to some defect in the constitution of the individual?1 habitus phthisicus' of Hippocrates. When Koch made the important discovery, he believed that the bacilli causing the disease in man and animals were identical. It is rather
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