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Reprint of the original, first published in 1889.
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 fever, German anthrax attacks on the United States during World War I, the tuberculin war of 1931, Japanese biological warfare in the 1940s, and today’s bioterror dangers. Veterinary science in the rural Midwest arose from agriculture, but in urba...
Vols. for 1915-49 and 1956- include the Proceedings of the annual meeting of the association.
... containing its transactions and proceedings and a summary of current researches relating to zoology and botany (principally Invertebrata and Cryptogamia), microscopy, &c.
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