Contributions From the University Laboratory for Medical Bacteriology

Contributions From the University Laboratory for Medical Bacteriology
Author: Carl Jul Salomonsen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2015-08-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9781332222285

Excerpt from Contributions From the University Laboratory for Medical Bacteriology: To Celebrate the Inauguration of the State Serum Institute In the Autumn Of 1894, after Roux's publication of the first decisive experiments with Behring's serotherapy applied to diphtheria, the production of antidiphtheric serum was eagerly taken in hand everywhere. In Denmark, too, the first introductory steps were made, at that time, towards the foundation of the Serum Institute, which to-day is an accomplished fact. As the director of the University Laboratory of Medical Bacteriology. I felt it my duty to study more thoroughly the technic of the production of antidiphtheric serum. So, in September 1894, I went to the Pasteur Institute, the only laboratory where for years they had both been working at the manufacture of serum and allowed other people to share the experience they had gained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Laboratory Disease

Laboratory Disease
Author: Christoph Gradmann
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-09-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780801893131

In the nineteenth century, the new field of medical bacteriology identified microorganisms and explained how they spread disease. This book interweaves the history of this discipline and the biography of one of its founders, Nobel Prize–winning German physician Robert Koch (1843–1910). Koch contributed to modern medicine by inventing or improving fundamental techniques such as bacterial staining, solid culture media, mass pure cultures, and the use of animal models. His discoveries, which dominated medical science at the turn of the last century, are epitomized in a set of rules named after him. "Koch's Postulates" are still invoked today in attempts to prove the causal involvement of pathogens in infectious diseases. In a double history, Christoph Gradmann narrates the development of a discipline and the biography of a scientist. Drawing on Koch's extensive laboratory notes, Gradmann details how Koch developed his scientific method and discovered the bacterial causes of anthrax, tuberculosis, and cholera. Koch tried to bring this knowledge to clinical medicine by developing medicines that would specifically target the bacterial pathogens he identified. And Koch’s passion for personal travel developed into a career signature, as he became a pioneer in the study of tropical diseases. A fascinating look into Koch's personality and his experimental work in medical bacteriology, Laboratory Disease reveals both the biographical and the historical roots of our modern understanding of infectious diseases.