The Campaign Against Microbes Classic Reprint

Author : William Radam
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ISBN 13 : 9781330904640
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Microbes and the Microbe Killer (Classic Reprint) written by William Radam and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Microbes and the Microbe Killer The first edition of this book, published in 1890, gave the world a new theory and established new principles. Its teachings were that there is only one disease - decay; that it is caused by fermentation; and that all fermentation is caused by microbes. It was sent forth as a messenger that the doors of Science had been opened, and the seed scattered has borne abundant fruit. The three or four so-called diseases then admitted by scientists to be caused by microbes have multiplied, until the number includes all diseases, and the author's theory has been permanently established. But a book written in the infancy of a new discovery is necessarily incomplete. Scarcely had the first edition appeared when the author began the preparation of the revised edition. Step by step he proved the correctness of his new principles, until they can be no longer doubted. Ceaselessly he toiled in his laboratory with the fermentation of disease, propagating the microbes which caused that fermentation, watching them grow in physicians' medicines or die in his own antiseptics, or photographing them with the object of making them visible to everybody. The results of those years of patient investigation are given in this revised edition. His photographs of the microbes which cause the fermentation of the various so-called diseases are reproduced with exactness, making a valuable contribution to medical science. In place of the cumbersome appendix, which treated of subjects then held as possibilities, but which are now generally admitted, are special chapters giving the results of the author's personal investigations. No attempt has been made to make the revised edition a literary effort. The author has a message to give to the world, to science, to humanity, and it is given in simple words and in the plainest manner possible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.