In splendid isolation :: a history of the Willie Commelin Scholten Phytopathology Laboratory 1894-1992 /

Compared to a sick human being, a diseased plant is a simple object. You can cut it into pieces, examine parts of it under a microscope and perform all sorts of experiments with it, without the need for physical precautions or compassion. In other respects, however, physicians who deal with human di...

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1. Verfasser: Faasse, Patricia
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Dutch
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam : KNAW Press, 2008.
Schriftenreihe:History of science and scholarship in the Netherlands ; v. 11.
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Zusammenfassung:Compared to a sick human being, a diseased plant is a simple object. You can cut it into pieces, examine parts of it under a microscope and perform all sorts of experiments with it, without the need for physical precautions or compassion. In other respects, however, physicians who deal with human diseases have an easy life. 'You physicians have only one species of patient, we phytopathologists have hundreds. Today we might be looking at a lily-of-the-valley, tomorrow an elm tree, the next day Java coffee, ' explains one of the phytopathologists in this book. For almost a hundred years, the Will.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (vi, 296 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-284) and index.
ISBN:9789048521678
904852167X
1283260085
9781283260084
9786613260086
6613260088

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