Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues
Cheville, Norman F.![Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/351/35131066/CHSBZCOP0335131066.jpg)
Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues covers the century when infectious plagues-anthrax, tuberculosis, tetanus, plague, smallpox, and polio-were conquered, and details the important role that veterinary scientists played. The narrative is driven by astonishing events that centered on animal disease: the influenza pandemic of 1872, discovery of the causes of anthrax and tuberculosis in the 1880s, conquest of Texas cattle fever and then yellow ...