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Hard Cover. Condizione: Acceptable. No Jacket. Usual ex-library features. The interior is clean and tight. Binding is good. Cover is slightly scuffed and worn at corners. Library numbers on spine. 123 pages. Ex-Library.

J. exp. Med., 61. New York, The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 1935, 8°, IX, 874 pp., 82 Fig., 39 Taf., Leinenband der Zeit; St.a.Tit. The bacteriologist and virologist Thomas Milton Rivers (1887-1963) spent over thirty years at the Rockefeller Institute as a researcher in the Department of Bacteriology and from 1937-1955, as Director. Working on measles and pneumonia, Rivers discovered the parainfluenzae bacillus and cultivated vaccine virus for human use, and during the 1950s, he played an important role in coordinating research on poliomyelitis as head of the National Institute for Infantile Paralysis. During the Second World War, Rivers led the Naval Medical Research Unit in the South Pacific, rising to the rank of Rear Admiral. Garrison & Morton No.5544.