Microbes : what they are, and the parts they play / [John Glaister].

  • Glaister, John, 1856-1932.
Date:
[1896?]
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Credit: Microbes : what they are, and the parts they play / [John Glaister]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Re-printed from “The Sanitary Journal,” April, 1896.] MICROBES: WHAT THEY ARE, AND THE . PARTS THEY PLAY. On 23rd January, 1896, a public lecture on the above subject was delivered in the Waterloo Rooms, Glasgow, under the auspices of the Glasgow and West of Scotland District Council of the National Registration of Plumbers, by Dr. John Glaister, D.IMT., F.F.P.S.G., etc., Professor of Forensic Medicine and Lecturer on Public Health, Saint Mungo’s College, Glasgow. There was a large audience of members of the public interested in sanitary advancement as well as of master and operative plumbers. Ex-Bailie Crawfoi’d, Convener of the Health Committee of the Corporation of the City of Glasgow, presided. The chairman, in introducing Professor Glaister, remarked that from the point of view of the public authorities bacteriology was daily becoming more and more the guiding light to their operations—so much so that the Corporation of Glasgow had determined in their new Sanitary Chambers to institute a bacteriological laboratory. It would be impossible for them to combat in the best manner the infectious diseases of the day, which had their origin in the various micro- organisms, without the intelligent and conscientious co-operation of the plumbers thi-oughout the country. (Hear, hear.) The}' now felt that with the education of apprentices, and with the registration of qualified journeymen, inaugurated by the Worship- ful Company of Plumbers of London, and carried out by means of district councils all over the country, they might look forward to the future in this connection with great confidence. (Applause.) The following is the substance of the lecture :— I’liE world in which we live may, for the purposes of this lecture, be divided into two great sections, one of which is comprehensible by us through the ordinary channels of the senses, viz., by sight, by hearing, by touch, by taste, and by .smelling, the other being beyond the range of one of these sen.ses at least, viz., that of sight. Consequently the universe is divisible into that which is knowable by our present