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Publication

1996 - Harcourt Brace, San Diego, California

Language

English

Word Count

89,250 words, Guess

Page Count

357 pages

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and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number96154696
  • Better World Books9780156002622
  • Open LibraryOL569095M

Classifications

  • DDC616/.01/09
  • LCCQR30 .D45 1996
  • LCCQR30.D45 1996

Description

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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  • Microbe huntersHarcourt Brace1996-01-01
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