Microbe hunters
By: by Paul De Kruif
Publisher: Blue Ribbon Books
Published: 1926
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: Microbiology; History of Medicine; Bacteriologists; Bacteriology; History; Microorganisms; Biography; Popular Works
Description: Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters is a timeless dramatization of the scientists, bacteriologists, doctors, and medical technicians who discovered microbes and invented the vaccines to counter them. De Kruif reveals the now seemingly simple but really fundamental discoveries of science - for instance, how a microbe was first viewed in a clear drop of rain water, and when, for the first time ever, Louis Pasteur discovered that a simple vaccine could save a man from the ravages of rabies by attacking the microbes that cause it.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Leeuwenhoek.; title: Spalianzani.; title: Pasteur.; title: Koch.; title: Roux and Behring.; title: Metchnikoff.; title: Theobald Smith.; title: Bruce.; title: Ross vs. Grassi.; title: Walter Reed.; title: Paul Ehrlich.