Microbe Hunters
by Paul de Kruif
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0156027771
- ISBN 13
- 9780156027779
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About This Item
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.
Author Paul de Kruif (1890-1971), a bacteriologist and pathologist, was a prolific author on the subject of medical science. He lived in Michigan and taught for many years at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Synopsis
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Janson Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CM0004100933
- Title
- Microbe Hunters
- Author
- Paul de Kruif
- Format/Binding
- Very good
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0156027771
- ISBN 13
- 9780156027779
- Publisher
- Mariner Books; First edition (October 28, 2002)
- Place of Publication
- U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- October 28, 2002
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Janson Books
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