[KOCH, Heinrich Hermann Robert (1843-1910)]. [Four papers in:] Mittheilungen aus dem Kasierlichen Gesunheitsamte.

[KOCH, Heinrich Hermann Robert (1843-1910)]. [Four papers in:] Mittheilungen aus dem Kaiserlichen Gesundheitsamte. Herausgegeben von Dr. Struck. Berlin: Druck und Verlag der Norddeutschen Buchdruckerei und Verlagsanstalt [vol. II: Verlag von August Hirschwald], 1881-84. 2 volumes, 4to (302 x 220). 27 photographed and chromolithographed plates, some mounted, some double-page, tables. Modern cloth-backed paper boards with original printed wrappers laid down on the upper covers (wrapper to second vol. torn without loss of letters). Provenance: from the Collection of Peter and Margarethe Braune.  Contains 4 important papers by Koch as follows: 1. “Zur Untersuchung von pathogenen Organismen” (vol. one, pp. 1-48): "Koch's description of his methods of growing bacterial cultures in gelatine solutions, making films of bacteria on cover slips and fixing them by gentle heat, and staining slides differentially by aniline. These methods are the bases on which bacteriology largely rests" (Garrison-Morton. 2495.1); 2. “Zur Aetiologie des Milzbrandes” (vol. one, pp. 49-79); 3. “Ueber Desinfection” (vol. one, pp. 234-82): "Koch showed that mercuric chloride was superior to carbolic acid, and that live steam surpassed hot air in sterilizing power" (Garrison-Morton 5636.1); 4. “Die Aetiologie der Tuberkulose” (vol. II, pp. 1-88): "Koch published a fuller account in Mitt. k. Gesundh-Amte … in which he reported how he had succeeded in producing experimental tuberculosis in animals after cultivating the bacillus" (Garrison-Morton 2331). (2)