Virus diseases
By: by members of the Rockefeller insititute for medical research: Thomas M. Rivers ... Wendell M. Stanley ... [and others]
Contributors: Rivers, Thomas M. 1888-1962.; Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.
Publisher: Cornell universsity press
Published: 1943
Place of publication: Ithaca, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
Subjects: Viruses.; Communicable diseases.; Immunity.; Plant diseases.
Notes: "This book in its original form consisted of six lectures which the authors delivered at Cornell university in the spring term of 1942, namely, the Messinger lectures on the evolution of civilization."-- p. [v]
Bibliography at end of each chapter.
Table of contents: title: Foreword, by T. M. Rivers.; title: Virus diseases with particular reference to vaccinia, by T. M. Rivers.; title: Chemical structure and the mutation of viruses , by W. M. Stanley.; title: New hosts as a key to progress in plant virus disease research, by L. O. Kunkel.; title: Swine influenza, by R. E. Shope.; title: Human influenza, by F. L. Horsfall, Jr.; title: Viruses and tumors, by Peyton Rous.