Disease germs, their real nature : an original investigation / by Lionel S. Beale.

  • Lionel Smith Beale
Date:
1870
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Credit: Disease germs, their real nature : an original investigation / by Lionel S. Beale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    PREFACE. The conclusions concerning the nature of disease germs, now published for the first time in a connected form, were briefly sketched in the lectures I delivered at Oxford in 1868-9, by direction of the Radcliffe Trustees, ^nd have been taught by me for many years past. Some of the facts will be found recorded in my Report on the Cattle Plague in 1866, and in several memoirs and works published as early as 1863. The illustrations in the present volume are in advance of any yet published by me. By printing in three colours, very accurate copies of the specimens, prepared by the process of investigation I have long adopted, have been obtained. Although less clear and elaborate, and far less beautiful than the originals, the figures in the last few plates of this book really give with great accuracy the appearances of the speci- mens themselves. Although the result obtained may perhaps be scarcely considered commensurate with the time and labour expended I feel sufficiently en- couraged to make further efforts in the same direction. The time has now arrived when, I think, without impropriety, I may ask scientific observers, and the