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Tables of Contents for The Miracle of Immunity
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Disease, Gods, and Witch Doctors
6
10
Deities and Doctors
Hippocrates and Scientific Medicine
Birth of the Four Humors
Symptoms and Crises
Rat Fleas, Plagues, and Microscopes
16
8
Rat Fleas and Epidemics
Some People Are Immune, Others Are Not
Germs and Microscopes
Germs, Diseases, and Cells
24
8
The Germ Theory of Disease
Controlling Disease Germs
Cows and Vaccines
The Discovery of Living Cells
Wine, Hens, and Phagocytes
32
8
Pasteur, the Miracle Worker
Success and Tragedy
From Bacteria to Bacteriology
The Innate Immune System
40
10
Natural Immunity and How It Began
How Macrophages Do Their Work
The Complement Immune System
The Acquired Immune System
50
10
Two Types of Lymphocytes
How the Body Fights Infection
Does the Immune System Ever Fail?
Immunity Today
60
10
Effects of Vaccinations
AIDS
Antibiotics and Their Abuse
What's in the Future?
Glossary
70
3
Diseases Mentioned in This Book
73
3
Further Reading
76
1
Index
77