Pioneers of medicine and their impact on tuberculosis
By: Thomas M. Daniel
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Tuberculosis -- History; Medical scientists -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: "Notes": p. [210]-235

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: value: Medicine and the white plague. Medical history and tuberculosis - the warp and the weft; value: The pathogenesis and natural history of tuberculosis; value: The origins and epidemic spread of tuberculosis.  Six pioneers. René Théophile Hyacinthe Laennec, 1781-1826, pioneer of pathology; value: Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, 1843-1901, pioneer of bacteriology; value: Hermann Michael Biggs, 1859-1923, pioneer of public health; value: Clemens von Pirquet, 1874-1929, pioneer of immunology; value: Wade Hampton Frost, 1880-1938, pioneer of antibiotics; value: Selman Abraham Waksman, 1888-1973, pioneer of antibiotics.  Epilogue. Reflections