By Claude E. Dolman and Richard J. Wolfe. 691 pp., illustrated. Boston, Boston Medical Library, 2003. (Distributed by Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass.) $45. ISBN 0-674-01220-8.
Theobald Smith is best remembered today for the discovery inthe 1880s, with Daniel E. Salmon, of the organisms that causeTexas cattle fever and hog cholera. As this lucidly writtenbiography argues, there was a good deal more to Smith than that:he was the leading North American microbiologist of his era.He was a patient, tenacious laboratory researcher whose experimentswere meticulously planned. He made a number of important discoveries,notably the transmission of malaria by mosquitoes and the pathogenicnature of bovine tuberculosis in humans, that were later independentlyestablished and credited to others in the historical . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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