Lane Medical Lectures: Viruses and Virus Diseases

STATE-OF-THE-ART REVIEW OF THE BIOLOGY OF VIRUSES BY THOMAS RIVERS, FATHER OF MODERN VIROLOGY--COPY OF LEADING HEMATOLOGIST WILLIAM CASTLE.

10 inches tall hardcover, publisher's maroon cloth binding, gilt title to cover, signed and dated, W B Castle 11/30/42 on front flyleaf, 133 pp, 34 illustrations (photographs and charts), very good + in custom archival mylar cover.

CONTENTS: I. Lymphocytic choriomeningitis; II. Pathology of virus diseases; III. Immunological and serological phenomena of virus diseases; IV. Nature of viruses; V. Treatment and prevention of virus diseases.

THOMAS MILTON RIVERS (1888 - 1962) was an American bacteriologist and virologist, the father of modern virology. Following enrollment in Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, his plans of becoming a physician could not be realized at first as he was diagnosed with a neuromuscular degeneration which forced him to leave medical school and work as a laboratory assistant at a hospital in the Panama Canal Zone. When by 1912 the illness had not become worse he returned to Johns Hopkins and graduated in 1915. He stayed at Johns Hopkins until 1919. In March 1922 he headed the infectious disease ward at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research and became the institute's director in June 1937. After retiring in 1956, he remained active with the Rockefeller Foundation. His work in the 1930s and 1940s contributed to making the institute a leader in viral research. In 1934 Rivers was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, As chairman of committees on research and vaccine advisory for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, he oversaw the clinical trials of Jonas Salk's vaccine.

PROVENANCE: WILLIAM BOSWORTH CASTLE (1897 - 1990) was an American physician who transformed hematology from a descriptive art to a dynamic interdisciplinary science. He discovered gastric intrinsic factor, now known as vitamin B12 (cobalamin) that provides an effective therapy for pernicious anemia. Castle also defined the need for iron for the bone marrow to make hemoglobin, and contributed important research on sickle cell disease.

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Publisher: Stanford University Press

Year: 1941

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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