Microbe HuntersHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 1996 - 357 pages "It manages to delight, and frequently to entrance, old and new readers [and] continues to engage our hearts and minds today with an indescribably brand of affectionate sympathy."--F. Gonzalez-Crussi, from the Introduction An international bestseller, translated into eighteen languages, Paul de Kruif's classic account of the first scientists to see and learn about the microscopic world continues to fascinate new readers. This is a timeless dramatization of the scientists, bacteriologists, doctors, and medical technicians who discovered the microbes and invented the vaccines to counter them. De Kruif writes about how seemingly simple but really fundamental discovers of science--for instance, how a microbe was first viewed in a clear drop of rain water, and when, for the first time, Louis Pasteur discovered that a simple vaccine could save a man from the ravages of rabies by attacking the microbes that cause it. |
Table des matières
Leeuwenhoek First of the Microbe Hunters | 1 |
Spallanzani Microbes Must Have Parents | 23 |
Pasteur Microbes Are a Menace | 54 |
Koch The Death Fighter | 101 |
Pasteur And the Mad Dog | 140 |
Roux and Behring Massacre the GuineaPigs | 178 |
Metchnikoff The Nice Phagocytes | 201 |
Theobald Smith Ticks and Texas Fever | 228 |
Bruce Trail of the Tsetse | 246 |
Ross vs Grassi Malaria | 271 |
Walter Reed In the Interest of Scienceand for Humanity | 303 |
Paul Ehrlich The Magic Bullet | 326 |
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