Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber’s Note: Words and phrases in italics are surrounded by
_underscores_.

MICROBE HUNTERS

MICROBE HUNTERS

_by_
PAUL DE KRUIF

“The gods are frankly human, sharing in the weaknesses of
mankind, yet not untouched with a halo of divine Romance.”

E. H. BLAKENEY.

_New York_
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY
HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.

PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.

TO
RHEA

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I LEEUWENHOEK: First of the Microbe Hunters 3

II SPALLANZANI: Microbes Must Have Parents! 25

III PASTEUR: Microbes Are a Menace! 57

IV KOCH: The Death Fighter 105

V PASTEUR: And the Mad Dog 145

VI ROUX AND BEHRING: Massacre the Guinea-Pigs 184

VII METCHNIKOFF: The Nice Phagocytes 207

VIII THEOBALD SMITH: Ticks and Texas Fever 234

IX BRUCE: Trail of the Tsetse 252

X ROSS VS. GRASSI: Malaria 278

XI WALTER REED: In the Interest of Science--and for
Humanity! 311

XII PAUL EHRLICH: The Magic Bullet 334

INDEX 359

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE

ANTONY LEEUWENHOEK 16

LAZZARO SPALLANZANI 48

PASTEUR AT FORTY-FIVE 74

ROBERT KOCH 140

VACCINATING SHEEP FOR ANTHRAX 166

DR. ROUX 204

ÉLIE METCHNIKOFF 228

LAST PORTRAIT OF EHRLICH 354

MICROBE HUNTERS