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Koch,R.
Travel reports on rinderpest, bubonic plague in India and Africa, tsetse or surra disease, Texas fever, tropical malaria, blackwater fever. Berlin, J. Springer 1898. gr.8°. 2 pp., 136 pp. Cloth hardcover with gilt embossed rtit. (wear). Garrison-M. 2457 Cf. NDB XII, 252: "... in November 1896 K. went to South Africa on behalf of the British government to research and combat rinderpest; K. was unable to find a bacterial pathogen, but succeeded in stopping the disease by actively immunizing the animals. K. then traveled to Bombay in March 1897 at the head of the Dtn. He was the first to recognize the role that rats played in the spread of the plague... July 1897-May 1898 K. studied further epidemics in German East Africa". - Tit. and last pp. somewhat browned by endpapers.
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