George Miller Sternberg Quotes

United States, Physician
June 8, 1838 – November, 3, 1915.

Brigadier General George Miller Sternberg was a U.S. Army physician who is considered the first U.S. bacteriologist, having written Manual of Bacteriology . After he survived typhoid and yellow fever, Sternberg documented the cause of malaria , discovered the cause of lobar pneumonia , and confirmed the roles of the bacilli of tuberculosis and typhoid fever.

It has occurred to me that possibly the white corpuscles may have the office of picking up and digesting bacterial organisms when by any means they find their way into the blood. The propensity exhibited by the leukocytes for picking up inorganic granules is well known, and that they may be able not only to pick up but to assimilate, and so dispose of, the bacteria which come in their way does not seem to me very improbable in view of the fact that amoebae, which resemble them so closely, feed upon bacteria and similar organisms.

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