The Discovery of the Germ: Twenty Years That Transformed the Way We Think about Disease by John Waller

The Discovery of the Germ: Twenty Years That Transformed the Way We Think about Disease

Revolutions in Science

John Waller

197 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative fast-paced
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From the time of Hippocrates to that of Louis Pasteur, the medical profession relied on plausible but almost wholly mistaken ideas about the causes of and best treatments for infectious illness. Bleeding, purging, and mysterious nostrums remained ...

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