1843-1910

Provides the history of tuberculosis, the world's most lethal disease, and the birth of medical science through the work of Robert Koch, a German doctor who discovered that bacteria caused tuberculosis; and discusses how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character, Sherlock Holmes, applied Koch's methods of deductive reasoning in his investigations.

A short biography of late nineteenth-century German microbiologist Robert Koch that profiles his life and works which included his study of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and anthrax and his recognition as the founder of modern bacteriology.