Discovery of the Germ Twenty Years That Transformed the Way We Think about Disease

Name: Discovery of the Germ Twenty Years That Transformed the Way We Think about Disease
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ISBN: 9780231131506

ISBN-10: 023113150X

ISBN-13: 9780231131506

Edition: 2003

Authors: John Waller

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From the time of Hippocrates to that of Louis Pasteur, the medical profession relied on plausible but almost wholly mistaken ideas about the causes of and best treatments for infectious illness. Bleeding, purging, and mysterious nostrums remained staple remedies, and surgeons, often wearing filthy butcher's aprons, blithely spread infection from patient to patient. Then between 1879 and 1900 came the germ revolution. After two decades of scientific virtuosity, outstanding feats of intellectual courage, bitter personal rivalries, and a large dose of good fortune, doctors came to realize infectious diseases are caused by microscopic organisms. The discovery of the germ led to safe surgery,…

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List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 10/22/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 200
Size: 0.52" wide x 0.72" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements


Introduction: Revolutionary, by Any Standards



Before the Germ



The World According to William Brownrigg



The Germs of Revolution, 500 BC-1850 AD



Arsenals of Death



Contagious Effluvia



Leeuwenhoek's 'Little Animals'



Revolution in Paris



Dirt, Disease and Decay



The End of the Beginning



Cue, Louis Pasteur



Two Duels



The English Disciple



Worms, Chickens and Sheep



The Plight of the Silkworm



Anthrax



Koch's Postulates



1881: Potatoes and Postulates



The Four Big Ones, 1881-1899



The White Plague



Cholera, Suez and Pettenkofer



Pasteur's Gatekeeper



Typhoid Fever


Conclusion: A New Science


Bibliography and Further Reading