Koch’s Bacillus a Comment

Abstract

Professor Rosenkrantz’s paper tackles one of the most important problems in the history of biomedical science, namely the problem of making intelligible the meaning and structure of past controversies. Though rendered obsolete by later (and current) conventional views, the controversy over bovine tuberculosis (hereafter TB) assumed importance in the first decade of the twentieth century, especially in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada (i.e., countries with a high per capita milk and dairy products consumption).