Emil Von Behring

"The book not only is a complete biography of von Behring, but also provides us with a most interesting insight into the early days of immunology as a nascent discipline, when one discovery quickly followed another, and efforts were being made to fit them into a unified theory. Von Behring's contribution to this process cannot be overestimated." - Stanislaw Dubiski (Journal of the American Medical Association) "[A]n important study of a major scientist. Its value is increased by translations of several of Behring's important papers, most presented in English for the first time." - W. F. Bynum (Europe: Early Modern and Modern) "[A] reliable and insightful glimpse of what is undoubtedly one of the most complex stories in modern medicine." - Alfred I. Tauber (New England Journal of Medicine)