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Radio 4,05 Mar 2007,15 mins

Culturing the Germ Theory

The Making of Modern Medicine

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In 1875, Louis Pasteur's great European rival Robert Koch, a country doctor from Prussia, succeeded in tracing the entire life cycle of an anthrax bacteria cell.

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