Continual Raving A History of Meningitis and the People Who Conquered It 1st edition by Janet Gilsdorf 0190677333 9780190677336

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ISBN-10 :  0190677333

ISBN-13 : 9780190677336

Author : Janet R. Gilsdorf  

Not all scientific discoveries are genius.Continual Raving tells the combined stories of how scientists across the 19th and 20th centuries defeated meningitis — not through flawless scientific research, but often through a series of serendipitous events, misplaced assumptions, and flawed conclusions. The result is a story of not just a vanquished disease, but how scientific accomplishment sometimes occurs where it’s least expected.Although symptoms of meningitis were recorded as early as Hippocrates and the ancient Greeks, our understanding of the disease’s origins and mechanisms remained obscure for most of human history. That changed in 1892, when German physician Richard Pfeiffer observed and isolated bacteria ultimately shown to cause meningitis in children — and concluded that those bacteria cause influenza. Haemophilus influenzae, as thee meningitis-causing bacteria have been erroneously named ever since, continued their strange journey to discovery in the decades that followed. Continual Raving traces the disease’s strange encounters with science, including:· Heinrich Quincke, the German internist who first used a needle to draw spinal fluid from between a patient’s back bones· Simon Flexner’s management of American meningitis epidemics using immune serum from a horse·

Continual Raving: A History of Meningitis and the People Who Conquered It 1st Table of contents:

1. Meningitis—What Is It?
2. The Flu and Richard Pfeiffer
3. On Immunity
4. Finding the Capsule
5. The Most Famous Graph in Microbiology
6. Early Treatment—Immune Serum from a Horse
7. Antibiotic Treatment—Much Better than Nothing
8. Microbes and Genetics
9. Antibiotics: Sometimes They Fail
10. Keeping DNA Out, Letting It In
11. Hitch a Sugar to a Protein
12. A Scientist and a Scientist Walk into a Bar

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