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The Conquest of Tuberculosis

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Waksman, Selman A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2020]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Intro -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I. EARLY HISTORY OF TUBERCULOSIS. EMPIRICAL METHODS OF TREATMENT -- 1. Since Time Immemorial Man Has Been Afflicted by a Dreadful Disease, Variously Known as Phthisis, Scrofula, Consumption, and Tuberculosis -- 2. Tuberculosis in Literature and in the Arts -- 3. Infectious Nature of Tuberculosis Early Attempts at Treatment -- Part II. TUBERCULOSIS IN MODERN TIMES -- 4. The Diagnosis of Tuberculosis. Laennec Discovers the Stethoscope. Subsequent Discoveries 
505 8 |a 5. Villemin and Koch Establish the Role of the Tuberculosis Organism as the Causative Agent. Further Attempts at Prevention and Treatment -- Part III. CHEMOTHERAPY, CONTROL, AND FINAL CONQUEST OF TUBERCULOSIS -- 6. The Advent of Antibiotics -- 7. Streptomycin and the Beginnings of True Chemotherapy of Tuberculosis -- 8. Personal Experiences of Effectiveness of Streptomycin on Tuberculous Meningitis and Other Forms of Tuberculosis -- 9. New Antibiotics and Antituberculous Synthetic Compounds Supplement Streptomycin -- 10. The Conquest of Tuberculosis -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX 
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