How Did Robert Koch Study Anthrax

Robert Koch had been interested in studying anthrax and later went on to other diseases. He had found some sticks inside of the animals dead from anthrax and wanted to prove that the sticks he had found grew. Therefore, he took pieces of silver and dropped them into the blood of the sheep dead from anthrax so that he could place a piece into the body of a mouse. The next morning, the mouse was dead and on the inside, Koch dad located the sticks, proving that they grew and were the cause of anthrax. Koch had proved that diseases could be passed on through the blood as long as the microbes causing the disease were present there. This discovery can lead to preventative measures to help limit the spread of diseases. Koch’s discovery presented that microbes could use an organism’s blood as a method
After that, he found the bacilli population had increased and the mice were dead of the same reason, anthrax. Koch had truly found the real cause of anthrax. One great experiment repeated multiple times for man, results in prevention from some diseases for humanity. Koch wondered how the bacilli stayed alive in certain fields. He looked under his microscope and observed that the bacilli threads were dappled. This appeared because the bacilli turned into spores containing the bacilli ready to be produced later in better conditions. Koch discovered that the spores could stand harsh heat, dryness, or cold and that was how the bacilli thrived in the fields. The spores appear in the infected organism after it dies and waits for it to be passed on into the body of another organism. Koch had determined the cause of anthrax and how the bacilli thrive in outdoor conditions. He also had showed how organisms respond to their environment in order to survive and he provided possible solutions of exterminating the dead infected animals to prevent the spread of the disease. Koch helped create guidelines/rules to prevent