Robert Koch, 1843-1910 / by Victor Robinson.

1932

pages [127]-[174] : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits

The portraits include Hermann and Mathilde Koch (Robert's parents), Arnold and Waldemar Koch (his brother and nephew), Emmy Fratz (his first wife), as well as several of Robert himself, and one of Ferdinand Cohn. There are also photographs of various houses in which Koch lived and worked, and a facsimile of his handwriting

"This essay originally appeared in Medical Life (September 1924) and is chapter xvii of Pathfinders in Medicine (1929). It is republished here in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Robert Koch's discovery of the tubercle bacillus"