Tuberculinum Kochii
date: label: date made
content: ca 1891
notes: label: Description
content: Tuberculosis has been, and continues to be, one of the most debilitating and deadly infectious diseases in human history. Its primary cause, the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis, was discovered in 1882 by the German bacteriologist Robert Koch (1843-1910). In 1890, Koch announced that tuberculin, a sterile liquid which he produced from cultures of the bacillus, could be used not only to diagnose the disease but maybe even cure it in its early stages. People from all over the world streamed to Berlin for the new cure. Unfortunately, tuberculin proved not to be a cure. But it has been a good diagnostic tool for tuberculosis.
label: Description
content: Koch's tuberculin in this bottle was made in 1891 and bears the signature of the physician Dr. Libbartz, who worked for the German pharmaceutical company Hoechst, and who, together with Koch's son-in-law, Dr. E. Pfuhl, tested tuberculin at clinical trials in Berlin.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: purpose or example
content: Tuberculosis
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: The Antibody Initiative
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content: Antibody Initiative: Tuberculosis
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content: Antibody Initiative: Diagnostics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-13067.15
label: catalog number
content: M-13067
label: accession number
content: 321641
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pharmaceutical
label: Object Name
content: biological
label: Object Name
content: diagnostic, tuberculosis
label: Other Terms
content: Tuberculinun, Kochii; Biologicals; Drugs
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass; paper; fabric; organic material (unspecified) (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: amber (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5.1 cm x 2 cm; 2 in x 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 7/8 in; 5.08 cm x 2.2225 cm