{"product_id":"2940170468874","title":"The Remedy","description":"The riveting history of tuberculosis, the world' s most lethal disease, the two men whose lives it tragically intertwined, and the birth of medical science.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1875, tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in the world, accountable for a third of all deaths. A diagnosis of TB-- often called consumption-- was a death sentence. Then, in triumph of medical science, a German doctor named Robert Koch deployed an unprecedented scientific rigor to discover the bacteria that caused TB. Koch soon embarked on a remedy-- a remedy that would be his undoing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When Koch announced his cure for consumption, Arthur Conan Doyle, then a small-town doctor in England and sometime writer, went to Berlin to cover the event. Touring the ward of reportedly cured patients, he was horrified. Koch' s \" remedy\"  was either sloppy science or outright fraud.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But to a world desperate for relief, Koch' s remedy wasn' t so easily dismissed. As Europe' s consumptives descended upon Berlin, Koch urgently tried to prove his case. Conan Doyle, meanwhile, returned to England determined to abandon medicine in favor of writing. In particular, he turned to a character inspired by the very scientific methods that Koch had formulated: Sherlock Holmes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Capturing the moment when mystery and magic began to yield to science,  The Remedy  chronicles the stunning story of how the germ theory of disease became a true fact, how two men of ambition were emboldened to reach for something more, and how scientific discoveries evolve into social truths.","brand":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47161403408624,"sku":"2940170468874","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170468874_p0.jpg?v=1763710227","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170468874","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}