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BL
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668632
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Gaynes, Robert P.
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| Title & Author
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Germ theory : : medical pioneers in infectious diseases /\ Robert P. Gaynes.
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| Publication Statement
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Washington, DC :: ASM Press,, c2011.
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xii, 329 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm.
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| ISBN
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9781555815295 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 1555815294 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Hippocrates, the father of modern medicine -- Avicenna, a thousand years ahead of his time -- Girolamo Fracastoro and Contagion in renaissance medicine -- Antony van Leeuwenhoek and the birth of microscopy -- The demise of the humoral theory of medicine -- Edward Jenner and the discovery of vaccination -- Ignaz Semmelweis and the control of puerperal sepsis -- Louis Pasteur and the germ theory of disease -- Robert Koch and the rise of bacteriology -- Joseph Lister, the man who made surgery safe -- Paul Ehrlich and the magic bullet -- Alexander Fleming and the discovery of penicillin -- Lillian Wald and the foundations of modern public health -- Conclusions.
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| Abstract
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"From Hippocrates and Avicenna to Paul Ehrlich and Lillian Wald, Germ Theory brings to life a dozen medical pioneers whose work changed the way we think about and treat infection."-back cover.
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Germ theory of disease-- History.
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Medical scientists, Biography.
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Microbiologists, Biography.
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Germ Theory of Disease-- history.
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Infectious Disease Medicine.
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Communicable Diseases-- microbiology.
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Microbiology.
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| LC Classification
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RB153.G39 2011
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