Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues Steven Mintz Good teachers make good schools

Good teachers make good schools - but good schools also make good teachers

eight years as Thomas Jefferson's Secretary of State

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Pioneer Science and the Great Plagues Steven Mintz Good teachers make good schoolsPioneer Science and the Great Plagues covers the century when infectious plagues anthrax, tuberculosis, tetanus, plague, smallpox, and polio were conquered, and details the important role that veterinary scientists played. The narrative is driven by astonishing events that centered on animal disease: the influenza pandemic of 1872, discovery of the causes of anthrax and tuberculosis in the 1880s, conquest of Texas cattle fever and then yellow fever,