The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies - Softcover

Metchnikoff, Elie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1410206769 ISBN 13: 9781410206763

Publisher: University Press of the Pacific, 2003

Synopsis

Professor Metchnikoff expounds his main thesis that human life is not only unnaturally short but unnaturally burdened with physical and mental disabilities. He analyzes the causes of these disharmonies and explains his reasons for hoping that they may be counteracted by a rational hygiene. Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916) was Sub-Director of the Pasteur Institute, and a Nobel Prize winner for medicine. Metchnikoff was born in Russia and lived in Paris from 1888, where many of his works were originally published in French. He worked in the fields of embryology, comparative anatomy, pathology, bacteriology and immunology.

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About the Author

Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916) was Sub-Director of the Pasteur Institute, and a Nobel Prize winner for medicine. Metchnikoff was born in Russia and lived in Paris from 1888, where many of his works were originally published in French. He worked in the fields of embryology, comparative anatomy, pathology, bacteriology and immunology.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1410206769
• ISBN 13: 9781410206763
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368