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The Discovery of the Germ Pdf

The Discovery of the Germ
Author: John Waller
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 023113150X

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. Download The Discovery of the Germ: Twenty Years That Transformed the Way We Think About Disease (Revolutions in Science) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Bleeding, purging, and mysterious nostrums remained staple remedies, and surgeons, often wearing filthy butcher's aprons, blithely spread infection from patient to patient. Then between 1879 and 1900 came the germ revolution. After two decades of scientific virtuosity, outstanding feats of intellectual courage, bitter personal rivalries, and a large dose of good fortune, doctors came to realize infectious diseases are caused by microscopic organisms. The discovery of the germ led to safe surgery, large-scale vaccination programs, dramatic improvements in Search and find a lot of medical books in many category availabe for free download. The Discovery of the Germ medical books pdf for free. The discovery of the germ led to safe surgery, large-scale vaccination programs, dramatic improvements in



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