Jim Murphy and Alison Blank tackle telling the story of humanity's constant ever looming threat, the microorganism tuberculosis. TB has stumped humankind for ages, striking mysteriously and taking the lives of many. Many have attempted to solve this dilemma, only to find another obstacle in their path. Invincible Microbe covers the diseases symptoms, early(and sometimes brutal) treatments, and the struggles modern day doctors and scientists face. Murphy and Blank dive into humanity's desperation for a cure by studying many treatments from the age old practice of bloodletting, and the divine ‘healing’ touch of a king, to the highly systematic sanitariums of the nineteenth and twentieth century.
