The Fantastic Laboratory of Dr. Weigl: How Two Brave Scientists Battled Typhus and Sabotaged the Nazis

by Arthur Allen

Book Overview

Few diseases are more gruesome than typhus. Transmitted by body lice, it afflicts the dispossessed--refugees, soldiers, and ghettoized peoples--causing hallucinations, terrible headaches, boiling fever, and often death. The disease plagued the German army on the Eastern Front and left the Reich desperate for a vaccine. For this they turned to the brilliant and eccentric Polish zoologist Rudolf Weigl. In the 1920s, Weigl had created the first typhus...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039308101X
• ISBN13: 9780393081015
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.6"