02755nam 2200589Ia 450 991055512530332120170816113652.01-68367-349-21-68367-110-41-283-65647-71-55581-722-X(CKB)2670000000261698(EBL)1039538(OCoLC)813528989(SSID)ssj0000720701(PQKBManifestationID)11377939(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000720701(PQKBWorkID)10668424(PQKB)10787534(MiAaPQ)EBC1039538(PPN)196830575(EXLCZ)99267000000026169820110415d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGerm theory[electronic resource] medical pioneers in infectious diseases /Robert P. GaynesWashington, DC ASM Pressc20111 online resource (342 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-55581-529-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; About the Author; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Hippocrates, the Father of Modern Medicine; Chapter 3 Avicenna, a Thousand Years Ahead of His Time; Chapter 4 Girolamo Fracastoro and Contagion in Renaissance Medicine; Chapter 5 Antony van Leeuwenhoek and the Birth of Microscopy; Chapter 6 The Demise of the Humoral Theory of Medicine; Chapter 7 Edward Jenner and the Discovery of Vaccination; Chapter 8 Ignaz Semmelweis and the Control of Puerperal Sepsis; Chapter 9 Louis Pasteur and the Germ Theory of DiseaseChapter 10 Robert Koch and the Rise of BacteriologyChapter 11 Joseph Lister, the Man Who Made Surgery Safe; Chapter 12 Paul Ehrlich and the Magic Bullet; Chapter 13 Alexander Fleming and the Discovery of Penicillin; Chapter 14 Lillian Wald and the Foundations of Modern Public Health; Chapter 15 Conclusions; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; ZFrom Hippocrates to Lillian Wald-the stories of scientists whose work changed the way we think about and treat infection.Germ theory of diseaseHistoryMedical scientistsBiographyMicrobiologistsBiographyGerm theory of diseaseHistory.Medical scientistsMicrobiologists616.90410922Gaynes Robert P1218446MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910555125303321Germ theory2817715UNINA