In 1879, Kocher demonstrated experimentally that osteomyelitis is an infectious disease which is caused by a non-specific microorganism (the "micrococcus"). He showed that the infection of the bone ma...
The results of an analysis of the clinical case presentations elaborated in manuscript by Theodor Kocher (1841-1917) in his first years as a professor at the University of Bern, Switzerland (1872-75),...