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Historical Bibliography Updated: February 23, 2020

A manual of bacteriology.

Publication Details

New York: W. Wood & Co., 1892 CE.

Sternberg, U. S. Surgeon General 1893-1902, was a pioneer bacteriologist. Independently of Pasteur he discovered the pneumococcus and was first in America to photograph the tubercle bacillus. He sent Walter Reed off to make his great discoveries regarding yellow fever.

Thematic Classifications

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#2509
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/3241
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLa-manual-of-bacteriology

Geographic Context

Publication place: New York