Show KOCH SOLVED GREAT PROBLEM 1 Mk I 1 ROBERT ODERT KOCH GERMAN GERHAN DOCTOR WHO DISCOVERED TU BACILLUS OBERT KOCH a German country coun coun- ROBERT RODERT A try doctor startled the world fifty years Jears ago with absolute proof I that tuberculosis is la caused by tiny germs so 30 small Email that thousands can cnn ride on a speck of at dust And after aCler some somo of the most celebrated scientists of or the world had sought unsuccessfully unsuccessfully un I successfully to find the germ ot of otI tuberculosis tuberculosis and and man many had denied I tho the disease could coull be bo spread by a I germ germ he he devised methods whereby It could bo be cultivated and studied I through a microscope It was known at that time that many varieties of ot liv living ing lug organisms had their abode In Inthe tho the body of ot man But that some somo of them caused disease while others helped man to live was as largely a matter of ot conjecture For the first time ho he showed tho the whole scientific world how to separate ono one of ot these tiny mites from others not of the same family and how to grow them In Incubators Ho proved that certain cere tam tain rod like creatures only one thousandth eight of ot an inch long caused tuberculosis When Injected Into the bodies odI of ot he healthy animals tuberculosis always resulted Without Kochs Koch's discovery announced an March 24 1882 mankind would be without a n sure footing In Its battle battlo against the unseen en en- emy Cray Koch made It possible to test sputum to learn If a person had tuberculosis he ho proved that each case must come from another case that tuberculosis doesn't Just happen Today 50 years after atter Kochs Koch's discovery dis covery tuberculosis associations from coast to coast are engaged Ina in ina ina a campaign to find the unknown case which has Infected the known case to teach the sick the simple rules of ot hygiene which prevent Infection In in ia others as well weB as to help the patients themselves get We- We |