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Robert Koch

I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic — the argument based on Koch's postulates to try to distinguish between cause and association. … Today I would regard the success of the many antiviral agents which lower the virus titers (to be expected) and also resolve the failure of the immune system (only expected if the virus is the cause of the failure) as a reasonable proof of the causation argument.

Robert Koch

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That proof required the further development of microscopy, and the work of Robert Koch.

Robert Koch

genius robert koch

that a given bacterial species caused a specific disease. In 1876, Koch established a set of criteria that a bacterium must meet in test animals to be identified as the cause of disease. The criteria to become known as Koch’s postulates laid the foundation for diagnosis of infectious disease that continues today. Medical historians have debated whether the criteria attributed to Robert

Robert Koch

genius robert koch

Thus the approaches of both Pasteur and Lister on one hand and of Robert Koch and his followers on the other converged in establishing the methodologies of the modern operating room.

Robert Koch

genius robert koch

Robert Koch pronounced that plague always retreats before the advance of civilization. The second claim was that, even in the Orient, scientific understanding of the disease would enable colonial authorities to exterminate it—if only the uneducated natives would cooperate.

Robert Koch

genius robert koch

The day will come when man will have to fight noise as inexorably as cholera and the plague

Robert Koch

genius robert koch

The year 2010, which marks the centennial of Robert Koch's death, is a propitious year to reflect on the life and work of a physician–scientist whose studies launched a new field of scientific inquiry—the field of medical bacteriology. The magnitude of Koch's achievement, well recognized by his contemporaries, appears no less extraordinary today. His discoveries ushered in a ‘golden age’ of scientific discovery and a new era of public health. Today, his postulates are part of the medical vernacular and his techniques of microscopy are used throughout the world. Almost every step in the development of bacteriology bears his mark, from artificial culture to disinfection and sterilization. In 1987, Koch's most important scientific papers were published in English.1 Thomas Brock's landmark biography was published the following year.2 It remains the only substantial biography of Koch printed in English. These works allow us to marvel at the accomplishments of a physician whose scientific career began inauspiciously outside the academic world, and whose guiding principle, nunquam otiosus (never idle), led him to the summit of scientific achievement.

Robert Koch