Microbe Hunters
This science classic by Paul de Kruif chronicles the pioneering bacteriological work of the first scientists to see and learn from the microscopic world.\ 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...
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In this classic bestseller, Paul de Kruif dramatizes the pioneering bacteriological work of such scientists as Leeuwenhoek, Spallanzani, Koch, Pasteur, Reed, and Ehrlich. This seventieth anniversary edition features a new introduction by F. Gonzalez-Crussi. Index.
Introduction1Leeuwenhoek: First of the Microbe Hunters12Spallanzani: Microbes Must Have Parents!233Pasteur: Microbes Are a Menace!544Koch: The Death Fighter1015Pasteur: And the Mad Dog1406Roux and Behring: Massacre the Guinea-Pigs1787Metchnikoff: The Nice Phagocytes2018Theobald Smith: Ticks and Texas Fever2289Bruce: Trail of the Tsetse24610Ross vs. Grassi: Malaria27111Walter Reed: In the Interest of Science - and for Humanity!30312Paul Ehrlich: The Magic Bullet326Index351
