The Giant In The Meadow tells the story of the first of all micro hunters. Like many pioneers Theobold Smith is not so well remembered as the later titans whose work he made possible. But men of science the world over so homage to his name for he carried the rigid discipline of laboratory work out of doors and trapped his adversary in its breeding place, the fertile meadows of America. And there established the great new medical principle, a principle that was to make possible the eventual wiping out of yellow fever, malaria and a score more of mankind’s most ancient and mysterious enemies.