Louis Koch Research Paper
How far did the Two World Wars attribute to arresting the spread of disease between the 1880s and 1950s? –
An essay by Danial Rizvi 11V
During the Franco-Prussian War, a German doctor, Robert Koch, became interested in the work of Louis Pasteur. Pasteur was a French doctor whose work on immunization had attracted Koch to get immersed in it. This stirred their rivalry, which was flamed by the passion of their patriotic goals. Koch was as hard working and skilled in experimenting as Pasteur. When Pasteur was past stuck, Koch hard balled it and with German funding and industrial dies he found that he could stain bacteria that he acquired from blood and pus. Koch could then isolate, test and identify the bacteria. Koch would go on and sample the bacteria until he found the ones that formed the immunogene he needed. This paved …show more content…
Now, rather than shooting in the dark, scientists could effectively corner and conquer diseases.
‘Magic Bullets’ was the name given to chemicals would that kill bacteria inside the host, an internal anti-septic. The first developing one was Salversan 606 made by Paul Ehrlich, a member of Koch’s research team. Salversan was a cure for syphilis. Paul called his cure ‘magic bullets’ because they homed in on and destroyed the harmful bacteria that cause diseases. Ehrlich had proved that chemicals too could kill bacteria. But using Salversan 606 also damaged the host cells and killed the patients. This began the search for a less fatal cure. It was the 1930’s when Gerhard Domagk developed a second testing magic bullet called Prontosil. He was testing it on mice when he discovered that it killed the microbes
An essay by Danial Rizvi 11V
During the Franco-Prussian War, a German doctor, Robert Koch, became interested in the work of Louis Pasteur. Pasteur was a French doctor whose work on immunization had attracted Koch to get immersed in it. This stirred their rivalry, which was flamed by the passion of their patriotic goals. Koch was as hard working and skilled in experimenting as Pasteur. When Pasteur was past stuck, Koch hard balled it and with German funding and industrial dies he found that he could stain bacteria that he acquired from blood and pus. Koch could then isolate, test and identify the bacteria. Koch would go on and sample the bacteria until he found the ones that formed the immunogene he needed. This paved …show more content…
Now, rather than shooting in the dark, scientists could effectively corner and conquer diseases.
‘Magic Bullets’ was the name given to chemicals would that kill bacteria inside the host, an internal anti-septic. The first developing one was Salversan 606 made by Paul Ehrlich, a member of Koch’s research team. Salversan was a cure for syphilis. Paul called his cure ‘magic bullets’ because they homed in on and destroyed the harmful bacteria that cause diseases. Ehrlich had proved that chemicals too could kill bacteria. But using Salversan 606 also damaged the host cells and killed the patients. This began the search for a less fatal cure. It was the 1930’s when Gerhard Domagk developed a second testing magic bullet called Prontosil. He was testing it on mice when he discovered that it killed the microbes