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Only a genetic "footprint" of that plague year has been found. Yet Kolata has made the most of the ongoing mystery. She has produced not only a chilling read but also a book that, like Paul de Kruif's classic Microbe Hunters, could jump-start a new generation of medical researchers...
Died. Dr. Paul de Kruif, 80, bacteriologist and author of laymen-oriented medical books: of a heart attack: in Holland, Mich. Holder of a Ph.D. in microbiology but no medical degree, De Kruif developed an antitoxin for gas gangrene, helped produce a successful treatment for syphilis before penicillin was used. He wrote 13 books, among them the bestsellers Hunger Fighters and Microbe Hunters. He also collaborated with Sinclair Lewis on Arrowsmith, which dealt with a onetime country doctor. Answering whispers that he had ghosted the book for Lewis, De Kruif said: "This is wrong. But Lewis would have been completely...
...systemic poisons rather than by invading the body's cells. Antibiotics have wiped out or brought under control virtually all the major bacterial diseases: tuberculosis, some forms of pneumonia, diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, gonorrhea, syphilis and most of the other illnesses that stir memories of Paul de Kruif's heroic Microbe Hunters...
Last week Writer de Kruif recanted. In GP, published by the American Academy of General Practice, he violently attacked group practice in general, and the Kaiser plan in particular. Wrote De Kruif: "[I was] sold a bill of goods, that the ancient, close, personal relation between doctors and their patients-that's the pride and the unique distinction of family physicians-was no longer necessary . . . The good old family doctor? He'd soon be a relic, replaced by integrated groups of specialists, all streamlined under an ultramodern hospital roof . . . It dazzled me to watch the plan...
...least one member of De Kruif's family disagrees. His son David, 35, has been a Kaiser doctor since his residency six years ago in Oakland's Permanente Foundation Hospital. A heart specialist, he is now one of a doctor group which runs a clinic under Kaiser contract in San Leandro...