Editing Theodor Escherich (section)

===Discovery of ''Escherichia coli''===
[[File:escherichbook.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Escherich's habilitation treatise]]
In 1886, after intensive laboratory investigations, Escherich published a monograph on the relationship of intestinal bacteria to the physiology of digestion in the infant. This work, presented to the medical faculty in Munich and published in [[Stuttgart]], {{Lang|de|Die Darmbakterien des Säuglings und ihre Beziehungen zur Physiologie der Verdauung}} (1886) (''Enterobacteria of infants and their relation to digestion physiology''), was to become his habilitation treatise and established him as the leading bacteriologist in the field of paediatrics.<br>
It was also the publication where Escherich described a bacterium which he called “bacterium coli commune” and which was later to be called ''Escherichia coli''.<ref>According to  Oberbauer p. 314,   the naming was proposed by [[Aldo Castellani]] and his partner Chalmers in 1919, but the name was not officially recognized until 1958.</ref> For the next four years, Escherich worked as first assistant to [[Heinrich von Ranke]] at the Munich ''Von Haunersche Kinderklinik''.