The Discovery of the Germ [electronic resource]
Waller, John2009
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20 incredible years that revolutionised our understanding of disease. From Hippocrates to Louis Pasteur, the medical profession relied on almost wholly mistaken ideas concerning infectious illness. Bleeding, purging and mysterious nostrums remained staple remedies. Surgeons, often wearing butcher's aprons caked in surgical detritus, blithely spread infection from patient to patient. Then, between 1879 and 1900, came the germ revolution. Scientific virtuosity, outstanding intellectual courage and bitter personal rivalries characterised this breathtaking rapid sea-change in scientific thinking.
Main title:
The Discovery of the Germ [electronic resource] / John Waller
Author:
Waller, John, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Icon Books, 2009
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
Revolutions in Science
ISBN:
9781840465563
Language:
English
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BRN:
2304061