Koch, Robert, an eminent bacteriologist, born at Klansthal, in Hanover; famous for his researches in bacteriology; discovered sundry bacilli, among others the cholera bacillus and the phthisis bacillus, and a specific against it; (b. 1843).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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