Book
Review : Microbe Hunters
Book Name : Microbe Hunters
Writer
of book : Paul Henry de Kruif
Paul Henry de Kruif
was an American microbiologist and an author. Microbe Hunters is a timeless
science classic. Microbe Hunter is a tale of man's striving to understand the
invisible world around him. The book illustrates stories of the
scientists, bacteriologists, doctors, and medical technicians who discovered
microbes and invented the vaccines to counter them.
This
science classic histories the pioneering bacteriological work of the first scientists to eplore the
microscopic world. De Kruif reveals the now apparently simple but really fundamental discoveries of science -
for instance, how a microbe was first viewed in a clear drop of rain water. For
the first time ever, Louis Pasteur discovered that a simple vaccine could save
a man from the ravages of rabies by attacking the microbes that cause it.
This
book is the briefing for all further reading in microbes, disease etc. Science
background is not essential to understand and appreciate this book elaborates history
of science.
The
book is divided into chapters as .
LEEUWENHOEK: First of the Microbe Hunters,
PASTEUR: Microbes Are a Menace!,
PASTEUR: And the Mad Dog,
ROSS VS. GRASSI: Malaria, etc.
The
story of success and failures of each scientist and his hunt is clearly
articulated and linked across time so that you get the appreciation of how
modern scientists are always standing on shoulders of those before.
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