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OverviewFrom Hippocrates to Louis Pasteur, the medical profession relied on almost wholly mistaken ideas as to the cause of infectious illness. Bleeding, induced vomiting and mysterious nostrums remained staple remedies. Surgeons, often wearing butcher's aprons caked in surgical detritus, blithely spread infection from patient to patient. Then came the germ revolution: after two decades of scientific virtuosity, outstanding feats of intellectual courage and bitter personal rivalries, doctors at last realised that infectious diseases are caused by microscopic organisms - perhaps the greatest single advance in the history of medical thought. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John WallerPublisher: Icon Books Imprint: Icon Books Weight: 0.265kg ISBN: 9781840465020ISBN 10: 1840465026 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 08 January 2004 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationJohn Waller read Modern History at Oxford University and took Masters degrees in Human Biology and the History of Science and Medicine. He gained his Ph.D. from University College London in 2002 and is now a Research Fellow at UCL's Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine. He is the author of Fabulous Science: Fact and Fiction in the History of Scientific Discovery (2002). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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