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Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif PDF

This is a fascinating book! I first read it in seventh grade, bought the paperback, and then lost the book some time during the intervening years. I now have it again, and I share it with you. The cover image is of the paperback in my collection.

Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters is a timeless dramatization of the scientists, bacteriologists, doctors, and medical technicians who discovered microbes and invented the vaccines to counter them. De Kruif reveals the now seemingly simple but really fundamental discoveries of science--for instance, how a microbe was first viewed in a clear drop of rain water, and when, for the first time ever, Louis Pasteur discovered that a simple vaccine could save a man from the ravages of rabies by attacking the microbes that cause it.

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