Robert Koch

Robert Koch 

Along with Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch was a German physician who was able to describe further information about germ theory in the 1800s. We learn that Koch was able to create a postulate that describes how bacteria and germs can be transmitted from person to person. Koch was able to describe how there are microorganisms that can cause sickness. Louis Pasteur was able to describe that the bacteria anthrax was the cause of the sicknesses that were affecting the cattle in the 1800s in France.

Koch was able to find out greater information about microorganisms and the manner that they are transmitted. Robert Koch was able to discover that the cause of the disease tuberculosis was a bacteria, the tubercle bacillus. Koch was able to go on to describe microorganisms that caused several diseases including cholera, typhoid, and diphtheria. Based on Robert Koch's findings, treatments and  methods of preventing diseases were able to be discovered for specific diseases. 

Robert Koch's postulate describes that microorganisms like the tuberculosis bacteria can be extracted from infected tissue, grown in culture, cause the disease when injected in lab animals, be extracted from the lab animals, and be grown again in culture. These steps describe Koch's postulate that allow scientists to know if a certain microorganism is the cause of disease. We learn that Robert Koch was able to discover the cause of some diseases and helped obtain greater information about germ theory in 1882 (page 195) of the book Overdo$ed America. 

Germ theory was not known before the 1800s. These improvements in scientific knowledge allowed individuals to create medications and describe methods of preventing disease. However we know that this was not known until the 1800s. This knowledge allows us to know that the Pilgrims could not have known that they were carriers of specific microorganisms in the 1500s and refutes the lies told by post-modern and socialist propaganda.