Current Asheville, North Carolina Population, Demographics and stats in 2016, 2015.
Robert Koch, a German physician and scientist, presented his discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis (TB), on the evening of March 24, 1882.
(Written October 2007). The following is a simplification of an excellent history by Dr. Robert Howland. Lithium was first discovered as a chemical element in 1817.By the mid-1800s, there was great interest in âurate imbalancesâ, which were thought to explain a variety of diseases, including mania and depression.