Life with the Pneumococcus: Notes from the Bedside, Laboratory, and Library (Anniversary Collection) - Hardcover

Austrian, Robert

 
9780812279771: Life with the Pneumococcus: Notes from the Bedside, Laboratory, and Library (Anniversary Collection)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0812279778 ISBN 13: 9780812279771
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985

Synopsis

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.

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Review

"A nice historical record of how science goes when it is going slowly but going well."--Lewis Thomas, from the Foreword



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

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date
1985
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0812279778
ISBN 13 
9780812279771
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
160