Milestones in microbiology 1546 to 1940 /
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Spontaneous Generation and Fermentation
- Observations concerning little animals observed in rain-, well-, sea- and snow-water (1677) / Antony van Leeuwenhoek 8
- Microscopical observations about animals in the scurf of the teeth (1684) / Antony van Leeuwenhoek 9
- Observations on the generation, composition and decomposition of animal and vegetable substances (1748) / Turbevill Needham 11
- Tracts on the nature of animals and vegetables; observations and experiments upon the animalcula of infusions (1799) / Lazaro Spallanzani 13
- Preliminary report on experiments concerning alcoholic fermentation and putrefaction (1837) / Theodore Schwann 16
- Memoir on alcoholic fermentation (1838) / Charles Cagniard-Latour 20
- Concerning the phenomena of fermentation, putrefaction and decay, and their causes (1839) / Justis Leibig 24
- Report on the lactic acid fermentation (1857) / Louis Pasteur 27
- Memoir on the alcoholic fermentation (1860) / Louis Pasteur 31
- Animal infusoria living in the absence of free oxygen, and the fermentations they bring about (1861) / Louis Pasteur 39
- Influence of oxygen on the development of yeast and on the alcoholic fermentation (1861) / Louis Pasteur 41
- On the organized bodies which exist in the atmosphere; examination of the doctrine of spontaneous generation (1861) / Louis Pasteur 43
- Studies on the biology of the bacilli (1876) / Ferdinand Cohn 49
- Further researches on the deportment and vital persistence of putrefactive and infective organisms from a physical point of view (1877) / John Tyndall 56
- On the lactic fermentation and its bearings on pathology (1878) / Joseph Lister 58
- Alcoholic fermentation without yeast cells (1897) / Eduard Buchner 65
- Part II. The Germ Theory of Disease
- Contagion, contagious diseases and their treatment (1546) / Girolamo Fracastoro 69
- Concerning miasmatic, contagious, and miasmatic-contagious diseases (1840) / J. Henle 76
- Lecture on the genesis of puerperal fever (childbed fever) (1850) / Ignaz Semmelweis 80
- On a new method of treating compound fracture, abscess, and so forth; with observations on the conditions of suppuration (1867) / Joseph Lister 83
- On the antiseptic principle in the practice of surgery (1867) / Joseph Lister 86
- The etiology of anthrax, based on the life history of Bacillus anthracis (1876) / Robert Koch 89
- Investigations into the etiology of traumatic infective diseases (1880) / Robert Koch 96
- Methods for the study of pathogenic organisms (1881) / Robert Koch 101
- The etiology of tuberculosis (1882) / Robert Koch 109
- The etiology of tuberculosis. [Koch's postulates.] (1884) / Robert Koch 116
- A method for staining the tubercle bacillus (1882) / Paul Ehrlich 118
- Part III. Immunology
- An inquiry into the causes and effects of the variolae vaccinae, a disease discovered in some of the western countries of England, particularly Gloucestershire, and known by the name of The Cow Pox (1798) / Edward Jenner 121
- The attenuation of the causal agent of fowl cholera (1880) / Louis Pasteur 126
- On a vaccine for fowl cholera and anthrax (1881) / Louis Pasteur 131
- A disease of Daphnia caused by a yeast. A contribution to the theory of phagocytes as agents for attack on disease-causing organisms (1884) / Elias Metschnikoff 132
- The mechanism of immunity in animals to diphtheria and tetanus (1890) / Emil von Behring and Shibasaburo Kitasato 138
- Studies on the mechanism of immunity to diphtheria in animals (1890) / Emil von Behring 141
- Leucocytes and the active property of serum from vaccinated animals (1895) / Jules Bordet 144
- Part IV. Virology
- Report of the commission for research on the foot-and-mouth disease (1898) / Friedrich Loeffler and P. Frosch 149
- A Contagium vivum fluidum as the cause of the mosaic disease of tobacco leaves (1899) / M.W. Beijerinck 153
- An invisible microbe that is antagonistic to the dysentery bacillus (1917) / F. d'Herelle 157
- Isolation of a crystalline protein possessing the properties of tobacco-mosaic virus (1935) / Wendell M. Stanley 160
- Part V. Chemotherapy
- The chemical foundations of the study of disinfection and of the action of poisons (1897) / B. Kronig and Th. Paul 163
- Modern chemotherapy (1908) / Paul Ehrlich 176
- On the antibacterial action of cultures of a Penicillium, with special reference to their use in the isolation of B. influenzae (1929) / Alexander Fleming 185
- A contribution to the chemotherapy of bacterial infections (1935) / Gerhard Domagk: 195
- The relation of para-aminobenzoic acid to the mechanism of the action of sulphanilamide (1940) / Donald D. Woods 199
- Part VI. General Microbiology
- Studies on bacteria (1875) / Ferdinand Cohn 210
- The differential staining of Schizomycetes in tissue sections and in dried preparations (1884) / Christian Gram 215
- A minor modification of the plating technique of Koch (1887) / R.J. Petri 218
- The root-nodule bacteria (1888) / Martinus W. Beijerinck 220
- Auxanography, a method useful in microbiological research, involving diffusion in gelatin (1889) / Martinus W. Beijerinck 225
- Physiological studies on the sulfur bacteria (1889) / S. Winogradsky 227
- On the nitrifying organisms (1890) / S. Winogradsky 231
- Enrichment culture studies with urea bacteria (1901) / Martinus W. Beijerinck 234
- On oligonitrophilic microorganisms (1901) / Martinus W. Beijerinck 237
- A new substance necessary for the growth of yeast (1901) / E. Wildiers 240
- Fixation of free atmospheric nitrogen by Azotobacter in pure culture (1908) / Martinus W. Beijerinck 246
- Unity and diversity in the metabolism of micro-organisms (1924) / Albert J. Kluyver 247.