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Men against death ...
LIBRA 926.1 D367
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- De Kruif, Paul, 1890-1971
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine--Biography.
- Medicine.
- Medicine--History.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii pages,3 leaves,3-363pages : frontispiece,plates,portraits ; 22 1/2cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Harcourt, Brace and company, [1933]
- Contents:
- Prologue.
- Three doctors: Semmelweis, saver of mothers. Banting, who found insulin. Minot, against death.
- Red brick building on the hill: Spencer, in the happy valley. Evans, death in milk. McCoy, should generals die in bed?
- Machine medicine; Schaudinn, the pale horror. Bordet, prophet of doom. Wagner-Jauregg, the friendly fever.
- Old doctor sun: Finsen, the light hunter. Rollier, the sun doctor. Strandberg, machine sunlight.
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- At head of title: Paul De Kruif.
- "Third printing, January, 1933".
- OCLC:
- 1557887
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