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

from Fjumonvi

They were a competitive lot, those European scientists of the late nineteenth century, as they sought to pass each other in the race to find the causes of the dreaded diseases of the day, which, it was fervently hoped, would leda to cures. Some of their names are remembered today, notably Joseph ...

from fyrefly98

Summary: For most of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, tuberculosis, otherwise known as consumption, was a fact of life - and most often, of death. Poorly understood, this untreatable disease resulted in a high death toll every year, and an even larger population living with this chronic c...

from schwager

This work provides a great deal of background on scientific advances related to diseases of the late 1800s. The narrative style helps the author to describe different scientists and advancements. I was disappointed that the two main characters, Koch and Doyle, had very little interaction. I don't...

from IsolaBlue

Who was Robert Koch and what did he have in common with Arthur Conan Doyle? Author Thomas Goetz presents a highly readable look inside the search to cure tuberculosis. The main action centers in Germany with Dr. Koch; France with the more famous Louis Pasteur, and in England with Arthur Conan Doy...

from fundevogel

Medical history is undeniably one of the topics I am drawn to in books over and over.  So while I have zero proper medical learnin' I think it's fair to say I'm not a true lay person either. so after finishing this book I would say I know more about Robert Koch, Sir Conan Doyle and tuberculosis n...