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Virus hunters.
- Title
- Virus hunters.
- Author
- Williams, Greer, 1909-1986.
- Publication
- New York, Knopf, 1959.
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Details
- Description
- 503 pages illustrations; 22 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Popular Work
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliography.
- Contents
- Introduction: virology--a new science. Part One. Dawn Age of Vaccination. The pock-marked world of Dr. Jenner ; The man who listened to a milkmaid ; Jenner's secret swinepox experiment ; Vaccine clerk to the world ; The virus called vanity ; Let's immunize everybody against everything ; Pasteur and the virus that drives you mad ; The second human vaccine -- Part Two. Discovery of the Millimicrobe. First man to see a virus-Buist ; Lonely Beijerinck: first virologist ; Stanley: first man to crystallize viruses ; Williams: the astronomer who looks at viruses ; Tracking viruses by their antibodies -- Part Three: Firsty Big Break-through in Vaccines. Goodpasture hatches an egg ; Theiler: yellow fever's second exit ; Hepatitis and hell to pay ; Last great plague: 1918 model ; Shope and his shoats ; Francis and his doctrine of original sin ; Last great plague, 1957 model -- Part Four. Second Big Break-through in Vaccines. The virus that destroys peace of mind ; Enders: polio research's debt to mumps ; Salk: the polio virus killer ; The Francis report ; Darkness over Pocatello ; Are we conquering polio now? ; Are we licking the common cold? ; Is the end of measles now in sight? -- Part Five. Cancer, Genes, and the Heart of the Virus Matter. Do viruses cause cancer? ; The majesty of the cell ; But where is the virus in human cancer? ; And now, nuclear chemistry ; Frankel-Conrat and the acid of life.
- LCCN
- 59009256
- OCLC
- ocm00479276
- 479276
- SCSB-149202
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library