In this work Philip Hadley provides a comprehensive discussion of the immense body of prior work on the occurrence of dissociation of bacterial forms, including much accomplished even prior to the start of the Twentieth Century. Hadley's work has apparently, unfortunately, not previously been published independently in book form, which may help explain why this exhaustive treatise has thus far evaded a more-deserved and widespread audience.

The definitive microbiological study of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic, conducted through the full resources of the Mayo Foundation. No consideration of this pandemic could be complete without proper reference to this work. This book contains the full text, tables and figures from the original publications in JAMA, 1919, and the Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1920. Also included in the Foreword are discussions of (1) underlying theoretical considerations and methods of oral and accelerated vaccine production, (2) how and why the PHS and NIH have inappropriately misdirected attention from...

Charles Walter McCoy may easily be viewed as the most harmful force in the history of American medicine. From 1915 to 1937, McCoy was director of the PHS Hygienic Laboratory, which, in 1930 was renamed the National Institute of Health. As the first NIH Director (although an NIH chronology acknowledges three earlier Hygienic Laboratory directors), McCoy's perverted pandemic perspective is now an integral part of the PHS and NIH historical record, abetted and even further twisted by a consummate patronizing hack, John Eyler, and enshrined as NIH gospel in a 2010 article by Chien, Klugman and...