From the top of today's news, where reoprts of Ebola and HIV loom large, comes the story of microbes, bacteria, and how disease shaoes our everyday lives and society thrives. The superheroes in this scheme are the scientists, bacteriologists, doctors, and medical technicians who wage active war against bacteria. The new Introduction to this book places this history in a thoroughly modern context.

Microbe Hunters

Science & Math

Kruif, Paul D.

DE KRUIF, Paul.

Biological Sciences

Harcourt

This science classic by Paul de Kruif chronicles the pioneering bacteriological work of the first scientists to see and learn from the microscopic world. 
 
Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters is a timeless dramatization of the scientists, bacteriologists, doctors, and medical technicians who discovered microbes and invented the vaccines to counter them. De Kruif reveals the now seemingly simple but really fundamental discoveries of science—for instance, how a microbe was first viewed in a clear drop of rain water, and when, 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.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Harvest

In this classic international bestseller, first published in 1926, bacteriologist and pathologist Paul de Kruif offers an accessible and fascinating account of the first scientists to explore the microscopic world. Included are the “father of microbiology,” Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, who created lenses to study the microscopic world, and Louis Pasteur, whose discovery of a vaccine for rabies would save many lives. The legacy of the thirteen researchers and scientists profiled continues today, influencing research in the current fight against viruses such as SARS-CoV and HIV/AIDS.\nFrom the Back Cover\nIn this classic international bestseller, first published in 1926, bacteriologist and pathologist Paul de Kruif offers an accessible and fascinating account of the first scientists to explore the microscopic world. Included are the “father of microbiology,” Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, who created lenses to study the microscopic world, and Louis Pasteur, whose discovery of a vaccine for rabies would save many lives. The legacy of the thirteen researchers and scientists profiled by de Kruif continues today, influencing research in the current fight against viruses such as SARS-CoV and HIV/AIDS. 
Paul de Kruif (1890–1971) was a bacteriologist and pathologist who wrote widely about medical science. He taught at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and worked as a researcher for the Rockefeller Institute (now The Rockefeller University) in New York City.

Microbe Hunters: The Story of the Microscopic Discoveries that Changed the World

Biographies & Memoirs

Dover `

In the tradition of great American rags to riches stories, Seven Iron Men weaves together the history of how the seven Merritt brothers discovered iron ore on the Mesabi Range. In 1890 they were poised to become one of the wealthiest families in America but lost it all to industrialist John D. Rockefeller.
“The tale of their long and furious quest makes for one of the most melodramatic stories in American history. . . . The Merritts leap from the chronicle in all the colors of life—especially Lon, the king of them all, with his maudlin poetizing, his childlike faith in mankind, and his incredible tropical hat. It is a tale full of thrills, shot with sardonic humors.” —H. L. Mencken, The Nation
“Certainly it is no small contribution to the history of the American people to unfold the tale of the discovery and development of those huge iron deposits of the Mesabi Range flanking much of Lake Superior. To these perhaps quite as much as to any other one factor the country owes its industrial supremacy in the ago of steel.” —New York Herald Tribune
Paul de Kruif (1890–1971) was a microbiologist, served as a contributing editor to Reader’s Digest, and was the best-selling author of Microbe Hunters.

Seven Iron Men: The Merritts and the Discovery of the Mesabi Range (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)

History

Americas

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Meet the man against insanity. His laboratory? The sadly sinister wards of the 3,000-bed Traverse City State Hospital. His apparatus? Only his own eyes and hands, plus the hands and eyes of more than one hundred nurse attendants. And for his experiments, the patients whom staff referred to as the “cats and dogs”— the seemingly incurable psychotics resistant to all treatment and far beyond hope.“Maybe we’re not scientific here,” Ferguson admitted. “I know we’re different than they are in the big medical schools. We don’t treat diseases — we try to treat sick people.”In this book, originally published in 1957, author Paul de Kruif tells the story of Dr. Jack Ferguson, a family physician who originally made a name for himself by perfecting a three-minute lobotomy. In 1954, he arrived in Traverse City, Michigan, ready to perform 500 lobotomies on the so-called incurably insane. Yet he never got around to even the first one. Instead, using an unscientific combination of chemicals, copious notes and loving attention, he began one of the boldest drug therapy experiments ever attempted in a mental institution, helping to reshape how the mentally ill are treated in this country and abroad.

A Man Against Insanity: The Birth of Drug Therapy in a Northern Michigan Asylum

Professionals & Academics

Mission Point Press

Meet the man against insanity.
His laboratory? The sadly sinister wards of the 3,000-bed Traverse City State Hospital.
His apparatus? Only his own eyes and hands, plus the hands and eyes of more than one hundred nurse attendants. And for his experiments, the patients whom staff referred to as the “cats and dogs”— the seemingly incurable psychotics resistant to all treatment and far beyond hope.
“Maybe we’re not scientific here,” Ferguson admitted. “I know we’re different than they are in the big medical schools. We don’t treat diseases — we try to treat sick people.”
In this book, originally published in 1957, author Paul de Kruif tells the story of Dr. Jack Ferguson, a family physician who originally made a name for himself by perfecting a three-minute lobotomy. In 1954, he arrived in Traverse City, Michigan, ready to perform 500 lobotomies on the so-called incurably insane. Yet he never got around to even the first one. Instead, using an unscientific combination of chemicals, copious notes, and loving attention, he began one of the boldest drug therapy experiments ever attempted in a mental institution, helping to reshape how the mentally ill are treated in this country and abroad.

A Man Against Insanity: The Birth of Drug Therapy in a Rural Michigan State Hospital

Paul de Kruif, an American microbiologist and author, was most well-known for writing this classic bestseller, Microbe Hunters. His accounts of fourteen microbe hunting scientists are enlightening, engrossing, and paradoxically humorous and entertaining at the same time. All of which indicate why Microbe Hunters has been on recommended reading lists, influencing many aspiring physicians and scientists, since 1926.\nThese microbe hunters were pioneers searching for knowledge and truth, fighting against death to advance medicine. A few succumbed to the invisible assassins they studied. Their failures, disappointments and triumphs, as they persisted, are deftly presented by the author.

DeKruif, Paul

History & Philosophy

Purple House Press

Mikrobenkager

Verlag Ullstein Gmbh

La vida personal, los aciertos y fracasos que enfrentaron en el mundo microscopico cientificos inmortalizados por sus hazanas se incluyen en este libro. Gracias a la inteligencia y a la capacidad de observacion de unos cuantos hombres de ciencia, con defectos y virtudes como cualquier otro, sabemos que, hace algunos siglos, el ser humano veia limitada su esperanza de vida debido a lo que entonces se conocia como ""malos espiritus"", pero en realidad eran microbios.

Cazadores de microbios. Prologo con resena critica de la obra, vida y obra del autor, y marco historico. (Spanish Edition)

Editores mexicanos unidos

Cazadores de microbios: Los principales descubrimientos del mundo microscópico

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Microbe Hunters

Microbe Hunters

Microbe Hunters: The Story of the Microscopic Discoveries that Changed the World

Seven Iron Men: The Merritts and the Discovery of the Mesabi Range (Fesler-Lampert Minnesota Heritage)

A Man Against Insanity: The Birth of Drug Therapy in a Northern Michigan Asylum

A Man Against Insanity: The Birth of Drug Therapy in a Rural Michigan State Hospital

Microbe Hunters

Mikrobenkager

Cazadores de microbios. Prologo con resena critica de la obra, vida y obra del autor, y marco historico. (Spanish Edition)

Cazadores de microbios: Los principales descubrimientos del mundo microscópico