Microbe Hunters Paperback - 2002 - 3rd Edition
by Paul de Kruif
From the top of today's news, where reoprts of Ebola and HIV loom large, comes the story of microbes, bacteria, and how disease shaoes our everyday lives and society thrives. The superheroes in this scheme are the scientists, bacteriologists, doctors, and medical technicians who wage active war against bacteria. The new Introduction to this book places this history in a thoroughly modern context.
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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 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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- Title Microbe Hunters
- Author Paul de Kruif
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 3rd
- Edition 3
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harvest Publications, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-10-28
- Features Index
- ISBN 9780156027779 / 0156027771
- Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.16 x 5.3 x 0.89 in (20.73 x 13.46 x 2.26 cm)
- Reading level 1270
- Library of Congress subjects Bacteriologists, Microorganisms
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96154696
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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