Life with the Pneumococcus: Notes from the Bedside, Laboratory, and Library

by Robert Austrian, Lewis Thomas

Overview

Because of the high fatality rate of untreated pneumococcal pneumonia, both the disease and its principal cause, the pneumococcus, were objects of intense scrutiny by physicians and bacteriologists during the last two decades of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. As a result, scientists learned much of the fundamental importance to microbiology, immunology, and genetics while developing the pneumococcal vaccine.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812279771
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	08/29/1985
Series:	Anniversary Collection
Edition description:	Reprint 2016 ed.
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Editorial Reviews

"A nice historical record of how science goes when it is going slowly but going well."

from the Foreword Lewis Thomas

"Austrian's recounting of the history of the quelling reaction makes for fascinating reading. Particularly worthwhile is the story of pneumococcal vaccine development."

JAMA

"Austrian's recounting of the history of the quelling reaction makes for fascinating reading. Particularly worthwhile is the story of pneumococcal vaccine development."—JAMA "A nice historical record of how science goes when it is going slowly but going well."—Lewis Thomas, from the Foreword

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