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The idea of a germ: Spreading germs: disease theories and medical practice in Britain, 1865–1900 Michael Worboys, Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000, pp. xvi+327, Price £45 hardback, ISBN 0-521-77302-4.

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