The Discovery of the Germ : Twenty Years That Transformed the Way We Think about Disease

List of Illustrations v Acknowledgements vii Introduction: Revolutionary, by Any Standards 1(6) Part I - Before the Germ 7(16) 1 The World According to William Brownrigg 9(14) Part II - The Germs of Revolution, 500 BC-1850 AD 23(50) 2 Arsenals of Death 25(5) 3 Contagious Effluvia 30(6) 4 Leeuwenhoek's 'Little Animals' 36(7) 5 Revolution in Paris 43(8) 6 Dirt, Disease and Decay 51(15) 7 The End of the Beginning 66(7) Part III - Cue, Louis Pasteur 73(22) 8 Two Duels 75(14) 9 The English Disciple 89(6) Part IV - Worms, Chickens and Sheep 95(26) 10 The Plight of the Silkworm 97(6) 11 Anthrax 103(18) Part V - Koch's Postulates 121(12) 12 1881: Potatoes and Postulates 123(10) Part VI - The Four Big Ones, 1881-1899 133(54) 13 The White Plague 135(9) 14 Cholera, Suez and Pettenkofer 144(16) 15 Pasteur's Gatekeeper 160(13) 16 Typhoid Fever 173(14) Conclusion: A New Science 187(6) Bibliography and Further Reading 193