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Microbe Hunters

Microbe Hunters

de Kruif, Paul

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Medical ReferenceBiology

Publisher Price: $18.99

ISBN10: 0156027771
ISBN13: 9780156027779
Publisher: Harvest Books
Published: Oct 28 2002
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.89 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.16
Language: English
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.

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