Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis
by
Thomas Goetz
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
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 TB—often called...