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Microbe Hunters

Paul de Kruif

How did a few curious, stubborn men discover that tiny living things cause disease, and how did that change medicine?

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At a glance

Author
Paul de Kruif

Why read it

  • You will see how one clean experiment can overturn a popular theory
  • You will understand that great discoveries often begin with a lucky guess followed by careful work
  • You will recognize that beating a deadly disease takes both laboratory patience and bold action in the field

Who it is for

  • A reader who wants science history told as a gripping story
  • A student deciding whether medicine or research is for them
  • Someone who wonders how we learned that germs cause disease

Contents

  1. Publisher’s Note
  2. Introduction
  3. F. Gonzalez-Crussi, M.D.
  4. Leeuwenhoek
  5. First of the Microbe Hunters
  6. Spallanzani
  7. Microbes Must Have Parents!
  8. Pasteur
  9. Microbes Are a Menace!
  10. Koch
  11. The Death Fighter
  12. Pasteur
  13. And the Mad Dog
  14. Roux and Behring
  15. Massacre the Guinea-Pigs
  16. Metchnikoff
  17. The Nice Phagocytes
  18. Theobald Smith
  19. Ticks and Texas Fever
  20. Bruce
  21. Trail of the Tsetse
  22. Ross vs. Grassi
  23. Malaria
  24. Walter Reed
  25. In the Interest of Science—and for Humanity!
  26. Paul Ehrlich
  27. The Magic Bullet

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