Robert Koch -18th and 19th Century Medicine

Robert Koch -

• discovered bacteria that caused tuberculosis in 1882.
• published his ideas on the methods that could be used to identify disease-causing microbes:

1. The microbe is is present in all cases of the disease

2. Once taken from the body, the microbe can be reproduced into a pure culture

3.The disease can be reproduced in test animals using that culture

4. The microbe can be taken out of the test animals…