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About the Book
A non-technical, popular science account of what was known about viruses by the mid 1950s.
Recommended as useful to teachers, students and sixth-form pupils.
First Sentence
'Science is carrying us into the future with bewildering speed.'
Table of Contents
| 1 | The Invisible Germ | 9 |
| 2 | Smallpox and Vaccination | 20 |
| 3 | The Second Success - Yellow Fever | 30 |
| 4 | Influenza | 41 |
| 5 | Poliomyelitis - the Modern Plague | 52 |
| 6 | Protection against Polio | 61 |
| 7 | The Common Cold | 73 |
| 8 | Other Virus Diseases of Man | 85 |
| 9 | Viruses and Animals | 95 |
| 10 | Insects Suffer Too | 108 |
| 11 | Big Germs Have Little Germs | 120 |
| 12 | The Persecution of Plants | 132 |
| 13 | All Shapes and Sizes | 147 |
| 14 | Inside the Virus | 158 |
| 15 | A Way through the Wall | 166 |
| 16 | The Virus Multiplies | 176 |
| 17 | Chemicals that Live | 187 |
| 18 | Can We Protect Ourselves? | 198 |
| Index | 207 |
Edition Notes
Chapter 11 - Big Germs Have Little Germs. This is about the great variety of viruses that attack and destroy bacteria, known as bacteriophages or phage. It describes the discoveries of UK Professor F W Twort of London University and French-Canadian Dr Felix d'Herelle of the Pasteur Institute, and the following research between the two World Wars. At the time of this book's publication in the mid 50s, bacteriophages were being used in India, Egypt and Russia (USSR) against dysentery and plague, and in India for cholera. The author pointed out that with bacteria becoming resistant to modern drugs, bacteriophage research would be likely to increase.
Chapter 14 - Inside the Virus. This chapter is about the use of phage as a valuable tool for scientific study of viruses and nucleic acid (DNA).
Chapter 16 - The Virus Multiplies. This chapter about virus reproduction is based very much on the study of bacteriophages, including the work done by A D Hershey and M W Chase at the Carnegie Institution, A H Doermann at Cold Spring Harbour and others.
Chapter 18 - Can We Protect Ourselves? The last chapter ends with a tribute and words of encouragement to all the virus researchers (including phage researchers) often working on university budgets.
The 17 b&w illustrations include electron micrographs of viruses and bacteriophages.
Series |
Science for everyman |
The Physical Object
Pagination |
208 p. |
Number of pages |
208 |
Dimensions |
20.5x13.5cm |
ID Numbers
Open Library |
OL16526962M |
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History Created September 24, 2008 · 4 revisions
| April 7, 2010 | Edited by 80.6.138.115 | Edited without comment. |
| April 7, 2010 | Edited by 80.6.138.115 | Added description, first sentence, notes about chs.11,14, 16 and 18, illustrations and chapter headings. |
| December 15, 2009 | Edited by WorkBot | link works |
| September 24, 2008 | Created by ImportBot | Initial record created, from bcl_marc MARC record. |