| Show KOCH SOLVED GREAT PROBLEM V n k t Room ROBERT KOCH TUB Tua Geist GERMAN n DOCTOR 7 WHO WIIO to DISCOVERED tin n. ROBERT KOCH a German country doctor startled the world fifty years ago with absolute proof that tha t tuberculosis Is caused by tiny germs so 10 o small email that thousands can ride on ft a aspeck speck of or dust And after some o of the most celebrated scientists of or the world had sought unsuccessfully t to 0 and find the germ of or tuberculosis an and many had denied the disease could b bo be spread by a germ germ he he devised method methods whereby it could be cultivated an and d studied through a microscope It was known at lit that time that t many varieties of or 11 liv lir ing organisms had their abode In is the body of or man But that some me of or the them m caused disease while others helped man to live was largely a matter o of or r conjecture For th the first time h he showed show the whole scientific world how to separate on one on of these tiny mites mite s from others not of or the same family and how to grow them In Incubators ra He proved that certain rod-like rod creatures crea tures tubes only one thousandth eight of or a an Inch long caused tuberculosis When he be had bad this germ In solitary solitar r confinement and gave gare it food It reproduced o- o millions more more all all exactly th the tha oe e same ame kind And Incontestable And Incontestable evi nl dence when dance when these were ere Injected int Into o the tha bodies of or healthy animals tuberculosis tuberculosIs tuberculosis tuber tuber- always resulted Without Kochs Koch's discovery r an an- flounced March 21 21 1882 1852 mankind would b br bt without a sure footing In Its Us battle against the unseen enemy Koch made it possible to test sputum um to learn If It a person had tuberculosis hs he proved that each case must come com e from another case that tuberculosis doesn't just lust happen Today 50 years after arter Kochs Koch's dis discovery covery tuberculosis associations from tram coast to coast are engaged d In a campaign cam to find the unknown case which has Infected the known case to teach the sick the simple rules of or hygiene which prevent Infection in others aswell as well as to help the patients them them- get well |
