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

✍ Scribed by Goetz, Thomas

Book ID
107824049
Publisher
Penguin Group US
Year
2014
Tongue
en-US
Weight
2 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781592407514

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✦ Synopsis

The riveting history of tuberculosis, the world's most lethal disease, the two men whose lives it tragically intertwined, and the birth of medical science.

In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accountable for a third of all deaths. A diagnosis of TBβ€”often called consumptionβ€”was a death sentence. Then, in 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 remedyβ€”a remedy that would be his undoing.

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. Koch's "remedy" was either sloppy science or outright fraud.

But to a world desperate for relief, Koch's remedy wasn't so easily dismissed. As Europe's consumptives descended...

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