Life with the Pneumococcus : : Notes from the Bedside, Laboratory, and Library / / Robert Austrian.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Austrian, Robert,
• MitwirkendeR: Austrian, Robert,; Coetzee, Albert M.,; Douglas, Robert M.,; Hayden-Smith, Stanley,; Koornhof, Hendrik J.,; Reid, Robert D. W.,; Schiffman, Gerald,; Thomas, Lewis,
• TeilnehmendeR: Thomas, Lewis.
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1985
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Anniversary Collection
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 p.) :; 14 illus.

Because of the high fatality rate of untreated pneumococcal pneumonia, both the disease and its principal cause, the pneumococcus, were objects of intense scrutiny by physicians and bacteriologists during the last two decades of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth. As a result, scientists learned much of the fundamental importance to microbiology, immunology, and genetics while developing the pneumococcal vaccine.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Credits -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. The Gram Stain and the Etiology of Lobar Pneumonia: An Historical Note -- 2. The Pneumococcus at Hopkins: Early Portents of Future Developments -- 3. The Quellung Reaction: A Neglected Microbiologic Technique -- 4. Random Gleanings from a Life with the Pneumococcus -- 5. Pneumococcus: The First One Hundred Years -- 6. The Current Status of Bacteremic Pneumococcal Pneumonia: Re-evaluation of an Underemphasized Clinical Problem -- 7. Prevention of Pneumococcal Pneumonia by Vaccination -- 8. Of Gold and Pneumococci: A History of Pneumococcal Vaccines in South Africa -- 9. Tracking the Identity of Lister's Pneumococcal Groups T and V (Danish Types 45 and 46) -- 10. Pneumonia in the Later Years -- 11. Microbiology and Clinical Medicine-A Personal View -- 12. The Syndrome of Pneumococcal Endocarditis, Meningitis, and Rupture of the Aortic Valve -- 13. The Role of Toxemia and of Neural Injury in the Outcome of Pneumococcal Meningitis