Pioneers of medicine and their impact on tuberculosis / Thomas M. Daniel.

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2000.

xiii, 255 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Medicine and the white plague. Medical history and tuberculosis - the warp and the weft -- The pathogenesis and natural history of tuberculosis -- The origins and epidemic spread of tuberculosis. Six pioneers. René Théophile Hyacinthe Laennec, 1781-1826, pioneer of pathology -- Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch, 1843-1901, pioneer of bacteriology -- Hermann Michael Biggs, 1859-1923, pioneer of public health -- Clemens von Pirquet, 1874-1929, pioneer of immunology -- Wade Hampton Frost, 1880-1938, pioneer of antibiotics -- Selman Abraham Waksman, 1888-1973, pioneer of antibiotics. Epilogue. Reflections.