(This book is about the microbes that live on man, what th...)
This book is about the microbes that live on man, what they do and what they mean to us. Microbiology - or, as we might sometimes ay, bacteriology is a part of it, but only part. I intend to give you that part, in words you don't have to be a scientist to understand; and I will tell you how we get along with our microbes, and how they get along with us.
Peace or pestilencebiological warfare and how to avoid it
(Lang- eng, Pages 228 It is the reproduction of the origin...)
Lang- eng, Pages 228 It is the reproduction of the original edition published long back . Hardcover with sewing binding with glossy laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, professionally processed without changing its contents.We found this book important for the readers who want to know about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Print on Demand.
Theodor Rosebury was a British-born American bacteriologist and author. He has been called the “pre-eminent oral microbiologist of his era” and the “Grandfather of Modern Oral Microbiology”.
Background
Theodor Rosebury was born in London, England, the son of Aaron Rosebury and Emily Dimesets. His father was a union organizer and writer who wrote a history of the British labor movement. Aaron Rosebury moved his family to New York in 1910, where he continued his involvement in union organizing and writing. Emily Rosebury ran two boardinghouses in New York, which provided most of the family income. Theodor Rosebury was registered as an American citizen when his father was naturalized in 1916.
Education
Rosebury attended City College in New York City from 1921 to 1923 and graduated from New York University in 1924. He received his D. D. S. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in 1928.
Career
Dissatisfied with dentistry as a profession, Rosebury joined the Department of Bacteriology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University in 1930 as an instructor. Rosebury was promoted to assistant professor in 1935 and to associate professor in 1944. He remained at Columbia until 1951 when he was appointed a full professor in the bacteriology department of Washington University School of Dentistry in St. Louis. He retired as professor emeritus in 1967.
He made the contribution to the biological warfare studies. In his book Peace or Pestilence, Rosebury wrote that he became interested in biological warfare as a consequence of Hitler's rise to power. He had heard news reports suggesting that the Germans might use germs as weapons if they went to war again.
After the United States entered World War II, Rosebury joined the Biological Warfare Center at Camp Detrick in Maryland, where he served as civilian head of the Airborne Infection Project from 1943 to 1945. The scientists involved in this investigation used a cloud chamber to test the effect of inhaling various infective agents.
In 1945, Rosebury received a decoration from the War Department for exceptional civilian service. Though some of this biological research was classified, in 1947 Rosebury published a monograph, Experimental Air-Borne Infection, that described the test chamber, the problems involved in its use, and the infectious agents tested, including their dose and lethality. By 1949, however, Rosebury had become uneasy with the prospect of germ warfare.
In that year, in his book Peace or Pestilence, he explained the motivation behind the biological warfare investigation at Camp Detrick, but he also warned the American public about the potential danger of the experiments at Camp Detrick. Rosebury's expertise in the area of biological warfare led the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission to hire him in 1950 to compile an international bibliography on biological warfare. Microorganisms Indigenous to Man was published in 1962. This book, a comprehensive compilation of the literature on the normal flora, or microbiota, associated with mankind, served as a useful reference for medical research.
In Life on Man, published in 1969, Rosebury attacked "the myth that dirt and germs are always our enemies. " This discussion of harmless microbes occurring naturally in man was written for readers without a scientific background.
The last book Rosebury completed before his death, Microbes and Morals--The Strange Story of Venereal Disease, was published in 1971. Rosebury attempted to educate his readers and to dispel many of the misconceptions that surrounded venereal diseases, including the notion that Columbus and his crew introduced venereal disease to Europe upon their return from Hispaniola.
Rosebury called attention to himself and his progressive political views in 1965 when he invited Herbert Aptheker, a historian of African-American affairs and the director of the American Institute for Marxist Studies, to be his house guest. Aptheker arrived in St. Louis on February 13 to speak at the local chapter of the W. E. B. Dubois Club. Rosebury met Aptheker at the airport and put him up overnight. This incident was covered by the city papers and offended the Dental School faculty at Washington University, many of whom demanded that Rosebury be dismissed. Since there was no evidence that Rosebury had openly advocated his political philosophy in the classroom or on campus, and since Rosebury was in a tenurial position, the university administration had no grounds to fire him outright. But Rosebury, who had a history of coronary heart disease, was eased out: first, he was given a medical leave of absence in 1966, and then he was offered early retirement from the faculty with full benefits at the end of his year's sick leave.
Despite the tension created by this incident, university officials did not lose sight of Rosebury's contributions to science and to the school. When announcing Rosebury's leave of absence, Washington University provost George E. Pake acknowledged that "he is nationally and internationally known as an outstanding scientist in his field and in his years here has brought a new research dimension to the School of Dentistry. " Rosebury moved to Chicago in 1966 and then to Massachusetts, where in 1974 he settled in the small country town of Conway. He continued to write during his retirement and was working on two books at the time of his death.
Rosebury married Lilly Aaronson in 1925. The couple had two children and were divorced in 1948. On November 21, 1949, Rosebury married his second wife, Amy Pearl Loeb, a psychotherapist. The couple had no children