20 incredible years that revolutionised our understanding of disease. From Hippocrates to Louis Pasteur, the medical profession relied on almost wholly mistaken ideas concerning infectious illness. Bleeding, purging and mysterious nostrums remained staple remedies. Surgeons, often wearing butcher's aprons caked in surgical detritus, blithely spread infection from patient to patient. Then, between 1879 and 1900, came the germ revolution. Scientific virtuosity, outstanding intellectual courage and bitter personal rivalries characterised this breathtaking rapid sea-change in scientific thinking.
- ISBN10 1840465565
- ISBN13 9781840465563
- Publish Date 1 January 2002
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 28 April 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Icon Books
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 208
- Language English