Man vs. microbes / by Nicholas Kopeloff.
| Author/creator | Kopeloff, Nicholas, 1890- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Garden City, N.Y. : Garden City publishing Co., inc., 1930. |
| Description | xxiii, 311, viii pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Man versus microbes |
| Contents | The story of bacteriology -- Bacteria and their environment -- How microbes are studied -- What microbes do -- Microbial attack and man's resistance -- Disease-producing cocci -- Disease producing bacilli -- Tuberculosis -- Leprosy -- The typhoid-dysentery-colon group -- Intestinal bacteria -- Lockjaw (tetanus), botulism, wound infections, etc. -- Infectious diseases of animals -- Cholera -- Syphilis -- Other spirochaetal diseases -- Yellow fever -- Beyond the microscope -- Typhus fever and other insect-borne diseases -- Bacteriophage -- Antitoxin, vaccine, Wassermann test and hypersensitivity -- Disease-producing moulds -- Disease-producing protozoa (malaria, etc.) -- Microbes in air and water -- Soil microbes -- Microbes in milk -- Microbes in other foods -- Alcoholic beverages -- Microbes harnessed to industry -- Money as a carrier of microbes -- Disinfectants and their value -- Classification -- The conquest of infectious diseases. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-311) and indexes. |
| Acquisitions source | Laupus- Irons collection |