A text-book of general bacteriology / by Edwin O. Jordan.

  • Edwin O. Jordan
Date:
1931
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    PREFACE This book is the outgrowth of lectures given to students in the University of Chicago during the past few years. The subject is one that the writer believes should find a place in every general scientific course. Bacteriology is chiefly of professional interest to the medical student, but the subject also bears technical relar tions to household administration, to agriculture, to sanitation and sanitary engineering and to various industries and technological pursuits. For the general scientific student and reader bacteriol¬ ogy presents certain aspects that tend to widen the outlook upon a variety of human interests. It need hardly be said that within the compass of this work an exhaustive treatment of all sides of bacteriology is impossible. The needs of the advanced worker can be met only—and that but in part—by such monumental special treatises as the Handbuch der Pathogenen Mikroorganismen, edited by Kolle and Wassermann, and the Technische Mykologie, edited by Lafar. A general intro¬ duction to the subject, however, with some regard for perspective and with emphasis on general rather than on special questions has seemed worth attempting. The reader who wishes to acquire greater familiarity with the subject will find some bibliographical references given as a sort of first aid to the investigator. These include references to some articles of classic or historic interest, to some giving valuable sum¬ maries or bibliographies of important subjects and to a few in fields where investigation is very active or opinions considerably at variance. No pretension to completeness is made. The fundamental principles and methods of laboratory work are treated as fully as seems desirable in a book of this class. The tendency manifested in all the natural sciences towards the elabora¬ tion of special laboratory manuals and guides has much in its favor. A number of such guides for bacteriology are in existence, among
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