The bacteriology of diphtheria, including sections on the history, epidemiology and pathology of the disease, the mortality caused by it, the toxins and antitoxins and the serum disease / by F. Loeffler et al. Edited by G.H.F. Nuttall and G.S. Graham-Smith.

  • Loeffler, Friedrich August Johannes, 1852-
Date:
1908
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Credit: The bacteriology of diphtheria, including sections on the history, epidemiology and pathology of the disease, the mortality caused by it, the toxins and antitoxins and the serum disease / by F. Loeffler et al. Edited by G.H.F. Nuttall and G.S. Graham-Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. ITHIN the last few years many admirable text-books of * ^ bacteriology have been published in the English language, which place before the student the essentials of bacteriological technique and the more widely accepted facts relating to the distribution and characters of the micro-organisms pathogenic to man and the domesticated animals. In such works a single chapter is the utmost space which can be allotted to the consideration of a single organism, however great its importance, and much of this space is necessarily devoted to a description of its morphology and cultural characters. Questions dealing with the history of its discovery, mode of distribution, relation to other organisms and practical diagnosis, as well as those concerning the epidemiology, pathology, prevention and serum therapeutics of the disease which it produces, many of which are involved in great obscurity, have to be discussed in a few paragraphs. Besides these works, which deal shortly with all the species of bacteria pathogenic to man, a few monographs and reports have been published dealing exhaustively with special points in the bacteriology or prevention of certain diseases. To the advanced student, the bacteriologist, the physician, and medical officer of health these works are insufficient, and for further information he must turn to separate papers, scattered over a number of years throughout the various English and foreign journals and special publications, many of which are inaccessible. The desired references are frequently difficult to obtain and their verification involves the expenditure of much time and labour. Much of the energy employed in these researches might be avoided if works dealing exhaustively with the bacteriological aspect of each infective disease were accessible. The purpose of this volume is to partially fill this want by placing before the reader a full account of the bacteriology of diphtheria, the
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