HLTB21H3 : Textbook Notes

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French military physician, jean antoine villemin succeeded in transmitting tb to rabbits. Tb found in lungs and lumph nodes of only those that received pus. Villemin"s critic hermann pidoux said consumption in poor was due to condition of poverty including overwork, malnutrition, unsanitary housing; and developed in rich because of laziness, habits of luxury, overeating organic depletion . German physician robert koch made a presentation to berlin physiological society claiming he discovered the microbe of tb. Anthrax was a problem among sheep (and sometimes humans) in and around wollstein, koch examined carcasses of sheep and in obsessive fashion was able to characterize the germ of anthrax rod shaped bacterium named bacillus anthracis. Afterwards he found the microbe that caused tb (m. tuberculosis) Microscopic bacillus is colourless and can"t be easily seen with the light microscope making it visible required heating and a special aniline dye (methylene blue)

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