Virus in the cell
Edition: 1st
Series: Science for everyman
Publisher: G. Harrap
Published: 1956
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
First sentence: 'Science is carrying us into the future with bewildering speed.'
Description: A non-technical, popular science account of what was known about viruses by the mid 1950s.
Recommended as useful to teachers, students and sixth-form pupils.
Notes: Chapter 11 - Big Germs Have Little Germs. This is about the great variety of viruses that attack and destroy bacteria, known as bacteriophages or phage. It describes the discoveries of UK Professor F W  Twort of London University and French-Canadian Dr Felix d'Herelle of the Pasteur Institute, and the following research between the two World Wars. At the time of this book's publication in the mid 50s, bacteriophages were being used in India, Egypt and Russia (USSR) against dysentery and plague, and in India for cholera. The author pointed out that with bacteria becoming resistant to modern drugs, bacteriophage research would be likely to increase.

Chapter 14 - Inside the Virus. This chapter is about the use of phage as a valuable tool for scientific study of viruses and nucleic acid (DNA).

Chapter 16 - The Virus Multiplies.  This chapter about virus reproduction is based very much on the study of bacteriophages, including the work done by A D Hershey and M W Chase at  the Carnegie Institution, A H Doermann at Cold Spring Harbour and others. 

Chapter 18 - Can We Protect Ourselves? The last chapter ends with a tribute and words of encouragement to all the virus researchers (including phage researchers)  often working on university budgets.

The 17 b&w illustrations include electron micrographs of viruses and bacteriophages.
Table of contents: title: The Invisible Germ
pagenum: 9
class: part
label: 1; label: 2
pagenum: 20
class: part
title: Smallpox and Vaccination; label: 3
pagenum: 30
class: part
title: The Second Success - Yellow Fever; title: Influenza
pagenum: 41
class: part
label: 4; title: Poliomyelitis - the Modern Plague
pagenum: 52
class: part
label: 5; title: Protection against Polio
pagenum: 61
class: part
label: 6; label: 7
pagenum: 73
class: part
title: The Common Cold; title: Other Virus Diseases of Man
pagenum: 85
class: part
label: 8; title: Viruses and Animals
pagenum: 95
class: part
label: 9; title: Insects Suffer Too
pagenum: 108
class: part
label: 10; label: 11
pagenum: 120
class: part
title: Big Germs Have Little Germs; label: 12
pagenum: 132
class: part
title: The Persecution of Plants; label: 13
pagenum: 147
class: part
title: All Shapes and Sizes; title: Inside the Virus
pagenum: 158
class: part
label: 14; label: 15
pagenum: 166
class: part
title: A Way through the Wall; title: The Virus Multiplies
pagenum: 176
class: part
label: 16; label: 17
pagenum: 187
class: part
title: Chemicals that Live; label: 18
pagenum: 198
class: part
title: Can We Protect Ourselves?; pagenum: 207
class: part
title: Index