The microbe, creator of the pathologist: an inter-related history of pathology, microbiology, and infectious disease.
This brief historical review of pathology stresses the impact of microbial discovery on the development of pathology as a medical specialty. If, as it has been said, the microscope invented the pathologist, it was the microbe, especially the pathogenic bacterium, that gave him his name and made him clinically relevant.
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Clin-Path Associates, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA.
D003141:Communicable Diseases / Q000266:history*; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008829:Microbiology / Q000266:history*; D010336:Pathology / Q000266:history*