Microbe hunters /

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 insta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	De Kruif, Paul, 1890-1971
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Blue Ribbon Books, ©1926.
Subjects:	Bacteriologists. Bacteriology > History. Microorganisms. Medicine > History. Microbiology. History of Medicine Microbiology Bactériologistes. Bactériologie > Histoire. Micro-organismes. Médecine > Histoire. Microbiologie. microorganisms. history of medicine. microbiology. Medicine Bacteriologists Bacteriology Microorganisms Bacteriology > History Popular Work Biography Biographies History Biographies.

Table of Contents:

I Leeuwenhoek: First of the Microbe Hunters
II Spalianzani: Microbes Must Have Parents!
III Pasteur: Microbes Are a Menace!
IV Koch: The Death Fighter
V Pasteur: And the Mad Dog
VI Roux and Behring: Massacre the Guinea-Pigs
VII Metchnikoff: The Nice Phagocytes
VIII Theobald Smith: Ticks and Texas Fever
IX Bruce: Trail of the Tsetse
X Ross vs. Grassi: Malaria
XI Walter Reed: In the Interest of Science
and for Humanity!
XII Paul Ehrlich: The Magic Bullet
Index.