THE REMEDY Robert Koch, Arthur Conan Doyle, and the Quest to Cure Tuberculosis

Narrator Donald Corren presents this ambitious double biography about the extraordinary time in which our current understanding of the nature of tuberculosis emerged. Although Koch (the father of bacteriology) and Conan Doyle (the creator of Sherlock Holmes) never met, they embodied two linked aspects of the transformation in human understanding of the greatest killer of the nineteenth century. Corren's clear, unhurried voice provides an excellent medium for the rich, factual narrative. He expresses and inspires interest without being overly dramatic. His command of the now archaic medical vocabulary of the late nineteenth century is impressive. This is an entertaining introduction to a time when systematic science solved one of the great mysteries--the cause of infectious disease. F.C. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine [Published: JULY 2014]