Laboratory methods of the United States Army / compiled by the Division of Infectious Diseases and Laboratories, Office of the Surgeon-General, Ear Department, Washington, D.C.

Date:
1919
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Credit: Laboratory methods of the United States Army / compiled by the Division of Infectious Diseases and Laboratories, Office of the Surgeon-General, Ear Department, Washington, D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. THIS manual is in no sense a text-book. It is a collection of formule and technical methods which will be useful in carrying out laboratory examinations which officers of the medical corps will be called upon to perform in stationary and in field laboratories. Since officers assigned to such work have all had bacteriological training, there is no need of giving detailed instructions for routine methods familiar to every bacteriologist. However, percentage strengths of solutions and staining fluids, methods of preparing special media, etc., are things easily forgotten and not memorized even by experienced men. It is desirable, too, to establish so far as possible uniformity of procedure in the Army laboratories, at least in those phases of the work in which standard methods canbe described. The technical procedures here given are those which, in the opinion of the Surgeon-General, are the best available at the present time. An experienced worker will, of course, vary these in detail, as subsequent improvements and local conditions may indicate. There is no desire, in other words, to obstruct originality or inventiveness on the part of the laboratory worker by prescribing a rigid technic. It is the chief purpose of this bulletin to furnish the expe- rienced officer with a standard of comparison and to give the less experienced a guide over the difficult places. Suggestions for the improvement of this manual for future printings are invited.
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