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Ep 9 Tuberculosis: A Slow Burn

This Podcast Will Kill You

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What Is a Microbiology Course?

Tuberculosis was viewed as almost a romantic disease at the time. Robert Koch's wife gave him a microscope on his 30s, and he used it to examine everything he could think of. He developed germ theory after witnessing war firsthand in Germany during the Franco-Prussian War. This experience provided some of the basis for his belief in germ theory but also resentment toward Louis Pasteur.

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