Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2164

VICTOR BABES (1854-1926) Die Lepra. Alfred Hölder 1901 [2] xii, 338 pp., 10 plates (9 col., 1 fold. map), 66 illus. 23.9 cm.

Babes, a native of Vienna, worked on rabies at the Pasteur Institute in Paris where he developed a treatment for the disease in 1888. With Paul Ernst (1859-1937), the German pathologist, he described the metachromatic granules in bacteria protoplasm and later devised the mallein test for the early diagnosis of glanders. Babes discovered the Babesia genus of protozoans which cause certain parasitic diseases in animals. He also related how certain types of bacteria could penetrate the unbroken skin or mucosa and developed an antitubercular serum. In this comprehensive treatise on leprosy, Babes gives a detailed history of the disease from the earliest times, provides a demographic study of its incidence, and discusses its etiology, symptoms, diagnosis, pathology, and therapy. The work appeared in Part II of Volume XXIV of Nothnagel's Specielle Pathologie und Therapie (see No. 2039).

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