Author: David Craigie (M.D.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description
Elements of the Practice of Physic: Presenting a View of the Present State of Special Pathology and Therapeutics
Author: David Craigie (M.D.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1280
Book Description
Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Appleton's Library Manual
Author: D. Appleton and Co. (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Continual Raving
Author: Janet R. Gilsdorf
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190677317
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Not all scientific discoveries are genius. Continual Raving tells the combined stories of how scientists across the 19th and 20th centuries defeated meningitis -- not through flawless scientific research, but often through a series of serendipitous events, misplaced assumptions, and flawed conclusions. The result is a story of not just a vanquished disease, but how scientific accomplishment sometimes occurs where it's least expected. Although symptoms of meningitis were recorded as early as Hippocrates and the ancient Greeks, our understanding of the disease's origins and mechanisms remained obscure for most of human history. That changed in 1892, when German physician Richard Pfeiffer observed and isolated bacteria ultimately shown to cause meningitis in children -- and concluded that those bacteria cause influenza. Haemophilus influenzae, as thee meningitis-causing bacteria have been erroneously named ever since, continued their strange journey to discovery in the decades that followed. Continual Raving traces the disease's strange encounters with science, including: - Heinrich Quincke, the German internist who first used a needle to draw spinal fluid from between a patient's back bones - Simon Flexner's management of American meningitis epidemics using immune serum from a horse - American bacteriologist Margaret Pittman's discovery (during the Great Depression, no less) of a sugar overcoat that protects the bacteria from white blood cells - Pediatrician Ashley Weech, who gave the first antibiotic used in America (based on instructions written in German) to a young patient sick with meningitis - Microbiologist Hattie Alexander, who learned why these antibiotics sometimes fail in such patients - Four scientists, in two teams, as they vied to be the first to create the right vaccine to prevent meningitis in infants In each of these deeply human stories, variables of chance, circumstance, and incorrect assumptions intervene to shape not just the arc of the scientists' lives, but the trajectory of how humans have come to understand one of our most pernicious diseases. Continual Raving is a mosaic tale of how science conquered meningitis -- and a larger story of the sometimes winding road to discovery.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0190677317
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Not all scientific discoveries are genius. Continual Raving tells the combined stories of how scientists across the 19th and 20th centuries defeated meningitis -- not through flawless scientific research, but often through a series of serendipitous events, misplaced assumptions, and flawed conclusions. The result is a story of not just a vanquished disease, but how scientific accomplishment sometimes occurs where it's least expected. Although symptoms of meningitis were recorded as early as Hippocrates and the ancient Greeks, our understanding of the disease's origins and mechanisms remained obscure for most of human history. That changed in 1892, when German physician Richard Pfeiffer observed and isolated bacteria ultimately shown to cause meningitis in children -- and concluded that those bacteria cause influenza. Haemophilus influenzae, as thee meningitis-causing bacteria have been erroneously named ever since, continued their strange journey to discovery in the decades that followed. Continual Raving traces the disease's strange encounters with science, including: - Heinrich Quincke, the German internist who first used a needle to draw spinal fluid from between a patient's back bones - Simon Flexner's management of American meningitis epidemics using immune serum from a horse - American bacteriologist Margaret Pittman's discovery (during the Great Depression, no less) of a sugar overcoat that protects the bacteria from white blood cells - Pediatrician Ashley Weech, who gave the first antibiotic used in America (based on instructions written in German) to a young patient sick with meningitis - Microbiologist Hattie Alexander, who learned why these antibiotics sometimes fail in such patients - Four scientists, in two teams, as they vied to be the first to create the right vaccine to prevent meningitis in infants In each of these deeply human stories, variables of chance, circumstance, and incorrect assumptions intervene to shape not just the arc of the scientists' lives, but the trajectory of how humans have come to understand one of our most pernicious diseases. Continual Raving is a mosaic tale of how science conquered meningitis -- and a larger story of the sometimes winding road to discovery.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh
Author: Edinburgh University Library
Publisher: Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
Book Description
Publisher: Edinburgh : T. and A. Constable
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
Book Description
The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
List of Additions To The Printed Books In The British Museum In The Years 1836 -1838
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385121604
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385121604
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
List of Additions to the Printed Books in the British Museum in the Years MDCCCXXXVI-MDCCCXXXVIII.
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Elements of the Practice of Physic: Presenting a View of the Present State of Special Pathology and Therapeutics
Author: David Craigie (M.D.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 982
Book Description
Appleton's Library Manual
Author: D. Appleton and Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 468
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