Microbe Hunters—Then and Now

Bernard Dixon

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Ed Hilary Koprowski, Michael B A Oldstone Medi-Ed Press, £16.99, pp 456 ISBN 0 936741 11 2 Since it first appeared in 1926, Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters must have drawn hundreds of thousands of young people into either biology or medicine. Nowadays, its rumbustious portraits of Pasteur, Koch, and their peers seem not so much inspirational as over the top. Yet this was an enthralling and accessible account, for readers of all ages, of one of the great episodes in the development of modern medical science. The title and dust jacket of this new work, produced by 45 authors, will …

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