Malaria and Malarial Diseases (Wood's Library of Standard Medical Authors)

vii, 329 pp. 8vo. A treatise on malaria by the former United States Surgeon General, who was a pioneer in bacteriology. From Garrison-Morton 2509, referencing another of Sternberg's works: 'Independently of Pasteur he discovered the pneumococcus and was first in America to photograph the tubercle bacillus. He sent Walter Reed off to make his great discoveries regarding yellow fever.'