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Paul de Kruif is the author of Microbe Hunters - Figures from the Heroic Age of Medicine (2022), Cazadores de Microbios (2005), A Man Against Insanity (1957), Chasseurs de microbes (1947), Seven Iron Men (1929).

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Microbe Hunters - Figures from the Heroic Age of Medicine

release date: Sep 26, 2022
Microbe Hunters - Figures from the Heroic Age of Medicine
This pop-science volume is Paul de Kruif’s classic account of microscopic discoveries, and it presents a history of the most important figures in medicine. Microbe Hunters is separated into 14 stories of pioneering scientists, including Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632​​–1723) and Louis Pasteur (1822​​–1895). The dramatised records of important scientific figures and the history of medicine are written in simple, accessible language. Becoming an international bestseller, the volume was translated into 18 languages and adapted for the stage and screen. This volume features the following chapters: - ‘Leeuwenhoek: First of the Microbe Hunters’ - ‘Spallanzani: Microbes Must Have Parents!’ - ‘Pasteur: Microbes Are a Menace!’ - ‘Koch: The Death Fighter’ - ‘Pasteur: And the Mad Dog’ - ‘Roux and Behring: Massacre the Guinea-Pigs’ - ‘Metchnikoff: The Nice Phagocytes’ - ‘Theobald Smith: Ticks and Texas Fever’ First published in 1926, Microbe Hunters remains one of the most encompassing classic accounts of microbiology history and is not to be missed by those who wish to extend their scientific knowledge.

Cazadores de Microbios

release date: Apr 01, 2005
Cazadores de Microbios
The author is the creator of one of the most profound biographies about biological scientists. A fiction style that intrigues the reader in order to go further into the content of the book. Biographies about important scientist such as Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch.

A Man Against Insanity

A Man Against Insanity
The story of a pioneering doctor's crusade against mental disease with the new chemical weapons.

Hunger Fighters

Hunger Fighters
This book contains eleven essays relating to the fight against hunger and the people responsible behind this movement.

Microbe Hunters

Microbe Hunters
The dramatic history of bacteriology is told through the lives and achievements of 14 great scientists: Leeuwenhoek, Spallanzani, Pasteur, Koch, Roux and Behring, Metchnikoff, Theobald Smith, Bruce, Ross vs. Grass, Walter Reed, Paul Ehrlich.
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