The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to

The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis

The riveting history of tuberculosis, the worldâ€™s most lethal disease, the two men whose lives it tragically intertwined, and the birth of medical science.
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In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accountable for a third of all deaths. A diagnosis of TBâ€”often called consumptionâ€”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 remedyâ€”a remedy that would be his undoing.
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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. Kochâ€™s â€œremedyâ€ was either sloppy science or outright fraud.
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But to a world desperate for relief, Kochâ€™s remedy wasnâ€™t so easily dismissed. As Europeâ€™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.
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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.
Country USA
Manufacturer Avery
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-04-03
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Avery
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-04-03
Format	Kindle eBook

The Remedy: Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis

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