paralysis (polio). The Sweeping Wind, De Kruif's last book, is his autobiography. De Kruif died February 28, 1971, in Holland, Michigan. Works Our Medicine Men (1922) Microbe Hunters (1926) Hunger Fighters (1928) Seven Iron Men (1929) Men Against Death (1932) Why Keep Them Alive (1937) The Fight for Life (1938) The Male Hormone (1945) Health is Wealth (1940) Life Among the Doctors (1949) Kaiser Wakes the Doctors (1940) A Man Against Insanity (1957) The Sweeping Wind (1962) Influential articles by Paul de Kruif "How We Can Help Feed Europe, in Reader's Digest, Sept. 1945 (p. 50-52). About the Meals for Millions Foundation and their Multi-Purpose Food. Microbe Hunters De Kruif's celebrated 1926 book Microbe Hunters consists of chapters on the following figures of medicine's "Heroic Age": Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) – the invention of a simple microscope and the discovery of microorganisms. Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729-1799) – biogenesis. Robert Koch (1843-1910) – identification of pathogens. Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) – bacteria, biogenesis. Emile Roux (1853-1933) and Emil von Behring (1854 -1917) – diphtheria. Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916) – phagocytes. Theobald Smith (1859-1934) – animal vectors and ticks. David Bruce (1855-1931) – tsetse flies and sleeping sickness. Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and Battista Grassi (1854-1925) – malaria. Walter Reed (1851-1902) – yellow fever. Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915) – the magic-bullet concept applied to syphilis (see the 1940 film Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet). Notes Bibliography Summers, William C. (1998) "Microbe Hunters revisited", International Microbiology 1: 65–68. online Verhave, Jan Peter (Spring 2013) "Paul de Kruif: A Michigan Leader in Public Health", Michigan Historical Review 39: 41–69. External links University of Michigan alumni American microbiologists American people of Dutch descent Writers from Michigan 1890 births 1971 deaths People from Zeeland, Michigan