The principles of bacteriology : a practical manual for students and physicians

Alexander Crever Abbott

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• Microbiology

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• Langue: English
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Presented by
David B D. 0.Bosworth,
COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS
AND SURGEONS LOS CALIFORNIAANGELES,THE PRINCIPLES
BACTERIOLOGY:
A PRACTICAL MANUAL FOR STUDENTS
AND PHYSICIANS.
BY
A. C. M.D.,ABBOTT,
1'IIH.ADKI.riII \.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
PHILADELPHIA:
LEA BROTHERS & CO.
1892.lA/4
A
M
in theEntered to Act of 1891, byaccording Congress, year
&LEA BROTHERS CO.,
D. C.of Librarian of atIn the Office the Washington,Congress
PRINTER.1X)RNAN,PREFACE,
IN this book the author has in mindpreparing kept
the needs of the student and of medicine,practitioner
for whom the of an withimportance acquaintance prac-
tical cannot be overestimated.bacteriology
It is to advances made re-through bacteriological
search that arewe indebted for much of our knowledge
of the conditions and for the elu-underlying infection,
cidation of hitherto obscuremany problems concerning
the the modes of and the meansetiology, transmission,
of of infectious maladies.prevention
within a short time have studentsOnly comparatively
and been enabled to obtain thephysicians systematic
instruction in this science that is of value in aiding
in The in-them their efforts to check disease. rapid
crease in the number who are themselves ofavailing
these for theopportunities speaks directly practical
value the science.of
As the of those the ofmajority undertaking study
it indo so with the view of utilizingbacteriology
medical and as of these can devote to it
practice, many
but a of their it is desirable that theportion time,
^3459IV PREFACE.
be in as direct a manner assubject-matter presented
possible.
the reader to be unfamiliar with the sub-Presuming
the author has restricted himself to those funda-
ject,
mental features that are essential to its understanding.
The has been to the ideas andobject present important
methods as as is withconcisely compatible clearness,
and at the same time to accentuate thethroughout
which the work.underlying principles govern
With the view of oninducing independent thought
and fre-the of the of thestudent,part diminishing
"
of that oft-heard What shall I doquency query,
next?" have been wherever itexperiments suggested
is These have been to illustrate the
possible. arranged
salient of the work and to attract attention to thepoints
minute the observation of which so much
details, upon
in bacteriology depends.
C.A. A.
1891.PHILADELPHIA, December,