Plague and Cholera - Patrick Deville, J. A. Underwood
Plague and Cholera - Patrick Deville, J. A. Underwood Paris, May 1940. He is too old for the combat ahead, and besides he has already saved millions of lives. Nazi troops storm the city and at Le…
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Plague and Cholera - Patrick Deville, J. A. Underwood
Paris, May 1940. He is too old for the combat ahead, and besides he has already saved millions of lives. Nazi troops storm the city and at Le Bourget airport, on the last flight out, sits Dr Alexandre Yersin, his gaze politely turned away from his fellow passengers with their jewels sewn into their luggage.
A true traveller of the century, he wishes to comprehend the universe. When he was the brilliant young protA(c)gA(c) of Louis Pasteur, he focused his exceptional mind on a great medical conundrum: in 1894, on a Hong Kong hospital forecourt, he identified and vaccinated against bubonic plague, later named in his honour Yersinia pestis.Swiss by birth and trained in Germany and France, Yersin is the son of empiricism and endeavour; but he has a romantic hunger for adventure, fuelled by tales of Livingstone and Conrad, and sets sail for Asia. Medicine, agriculture, the engine
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