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Microbe Hunters

Name: Microbe Hunters
ISBN: 9780547542102

The Classic Book on the Major Discoveries of the Microscopic World

Paul de Kruif,

384 pages
English
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eBook - ePub

Microbe Hunters

The Classic Book on the Major Discoveries of the Microscopic World

Paul de Kruif,

About this book

The international bestselling classic account of the first scientists to see and learn about the microscopic world.
"It manages to delight, and frequently to entrance, old and new readers [and] continues to engage our hearts and minds today with an indescribable brand of affectionate sympathy." —F. Gonzalez-Crussi, from the Introduction

Translated into eighteen languages, Paul de Kruif's classic 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 the now seemingly simple but 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.

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History

Index

Académie Française, [>]

Academy of Medicine, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Academy of Sciences, French, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Agramonte, A., [>], [>], [>]

Alexander, servant of Th. Smith, [>], [>], [>], [>]

Alexander the Great, [>]

Alt, K., [>]

Anthrax, [>]–[>]; Koch proves microbe cause of, [>]

Antitoxin, diphtheria, [>]–[>]; first produced in America by Park, [>]; first tried on child, [>]; Roux announces cure by, [>]

Aquinas, St. Thomas, [>]

Aristotle, [>], [>]

Arrhenius, Svante, [>]

Arsenic, changed by Ehrlich into magic bullet, [>]–[>]

Atoxyl, Ehrlich’s experiments with, [>]–[>]

Balard, Prof., [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Baptist, John the, [>]

Bassi, Laua, [>]

Bastianelli, Dr., [>], [>]

Baumgarten, J., [>]

Bayer, new magic bullet, [>]

Beer, diseases of, [>]–[>]

Beethoven, [>], [>], [>], [>], [>]

Behring, E., [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; attempts chemical cure of diphtheria, [>]; discovers diphtheria antitoxin, [>]–[>]

Bernard, Claude, [>], [>]–[>], [>]

Bertheim, A, [>], [>], [>], [>]

Bignami, [>], [>]

Bigo, M., [>]–[>], [>], [>]

Biot, the horse doctor, conversion of by Pasteur, [>]

Bloxam, Rosa, [>]

Bonnet, Charles, [>], [>], [>]

Bordet, J., [>], [>]

Bourrel, the horse doctor, [>]

Boyle, Robert, [>], [>]

Bruce, David, [>], [>]–[>], [>], [>], [>], [>]; discovers microbe of Malta fever, [>]; discovers trypanosome of nagana, [>]–[>]; discovers trypanosome of sleeping sickness, [>]; proves tsetse fly carries nagana, [>]–[>]; proves tsetse fly carries sleeping sickness, [>]–[>]; surgeon at siege of Ladysmith, [>]

Bruce, Lady, [>]–[>]

Buffon, Count, [>]et seq.

Bux, Mahomed, [>], [>], [>], [>]

Carroll, J., [>]–[>], bitten by yellow fever mosquito, [>]; death of, [>]

Carroll, Mrs., [>]

Carter, H.R., [>]

Castellani, A., [>]–[>]

Chaillou, M., [>]

Chamberland, M., work with Pasteur on anthrax and rabies, [>]–[>], [>]

Chappuis, Charles, [>]

Charles II, of England, [>]

Child-bed fever, Pasteur discovers cause of, [>]