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The riveting background of tuberculosis, the world's most lethal disease, the two men whose lives it tragically intertwined, and the delivery of medical knowledge. In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease on the planet, accountable for one third of all deaths. A identification of TB - categorised as consumption - was a fatality word. Then, in a triumph of medical knowledge, a German doctor known as Robert Koch deployed an unprecedented technological rigor to find the bacterias that triggered TB. Koch soon embarked on a solution - a solution that would be his undoing. When Koch announced his remedy for consumption, Arthur Conan Doyle, a small-town doctor in Britain and sometime writer, went to Berlin to pay the function. Touring the ward of apparently cured patients, he was horrified. Koch's "cure" was either sloppy knowledge or outright scams. But to a world desperate for pain relief, Koch's solution wasn't so easily dismissed. As Europe's consumptives descended after Berlin, Koch urgently tried out to prove his circumstance. Conan Doyle, on the other hand, returned to Britain determined to depart medicine in favor of writing. In particular, he considered a character motivated by the technological methods that Koch acquired created: Sherlock Holmes. Capturing the moment when secret and magic began to produce to knowledge, The Solution chronicles the stunning story of how the germ theory of disease became a genuine fact, how two men of ambition were emboldened to attain for something more, and exactly how scientific discoveries advance into social truths.
