The Newer Knowledge of Bacteriology and Immunology
Author : Edwin Oakes Jordan
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Page : 1248 pages
File Size : 40,3 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Bacteriology
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Author : Edwin Oakes Jordan
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Page : 1248 pages
File Size : 40,3 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Bacteriology
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Author : W. D. Foster
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1483162451
A History of Medical Bacteriology and Immunology provides the account of the history of bacteriology from the year 1900 to 1938. This book presents details about the discovery of the important pathogenic bacteria of man, of how they were shown to be causally related to disease, and of the use of these discoveries in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. Other topics discussed include the development of the germ theory of infectious diseases; contribution of Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch to medical bacteriology; and discovery of the more important human pathogenic bacteria. This text also discusses the scientific basis and practical application of immunology to medicine; main developments in bacteriology during the early 20th century; and chemotherapy of bacterial disease. This medically oriented text is beneficial for students and individuals conducting study on medical bacteriology and immunology.
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Page : 568 pages
File Size : 36,74 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Earth sciences
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Author : Janet R. Gilsdorf
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Page : 265 pages
File Size : 20,31 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0190677317
Not all scientific discoveries are genius. Continual Raving tells the combined stories of how scientists across the 19th and 20th centuries defeated meningitis -- not through flawless scientific research, but often through a series of serendipitous events, misplaced assumptions, and flawed conclusions. The result is a story of not just a vanquished disease, but how scientific accomplishment sometimes occurs where it's least expected. Although symptoms of meningitis were recorded as early as Hippocrates and the ancient Greeks, our understanding of the disease's origins and mechanisms remained obscure for most of human history. That changed in 1892, when German physician Richard Pfeiffer observed and isolated bacteria ultimately shown to cause meningitis in children -- and concluded that those bacteria cause influenza. Haemophilus influenzae, as thee meningitis-causing bacteria have been erroneously named ever since, continued their strange journey to discovery in the decades that followed. Continual Raving traces the disease's strange encounters with science, including: - Heinrich Quincke, the German internist who first used a needle to draw spinal fluid from between a patient's back bones - Simon Flexner's management of American meningitis epidemics using immune serum from a horse - American bacteriologist Margaret Pittman's discovery (during the Great Depression, no less) of a sugar overcoat that protects the bacteria from white blood cells - Pediatrician Ashley Weech, who gave the first antibiotic used in America (based on instructions written in German) to a young patient sick with meningitis - Microbiologist Hattie Alexander, who learned why these antibiotics sometimes fail in such patients - Four scientists, in two teams, as they vied to be the first to create the right vaccine to prevent meningitis in infants In each of these deeply human stories, variables of chance, circumstance, and incorrect assumptions intervene to shape not just the arc of the scientists' lives, but the trajectory of how humans have come to understand one of our most pernicious diseases. Continual Raving is a mosaic tale of how science conquered meningitis -- and a larger story of the sometimes winding road to discovery.
Author : Warren Levinson
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
Release : 2004-07-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0071501991
The most concise, comprehensive, and up-to-date medical microbiology & immunology review! Gives students the high-yield information they need to prepare for the USMLE Step 1 and course exams. Completely updated throughout, the new edition covers developments in HIV, hepatitis, smallpox, SARS, and more. Features case discussions, USMLE-style questions, and a USMLE-style practice exam.
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Page : 1456 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Medicine
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Page : 956 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 1926
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Page : 940 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Microbiology
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Page : 980 pages
File Size : 32,15 MB
Release : 1938
Category : Agriculture
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Page : 1188 pages
File Size : 25,42 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Beneficial insects
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