Pathogenic Micro-Organisms Including Bacteria and Protozoa (Classic Reprint): A Practical Manual for Students, Physicians and Health Officers: A ... and Health Officers (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The book in its later editions has come to be used in an ever increasing degree by medical students, so that while its point of View has remained the same, namely, to dwell especially on the relations of microorganisms to disease in man, it has been thought wise to touch on other aspects; thus, in this fourth edition a chapter has been added upon the bacteria concerned in agriculture and in some of the important fermentations. The bringing out of this new edition has enabled Dr. Williams and myself to rewrite a number of portions of the book with which we were not satisfied. We have also rearranged this material and added a number of tables which we believe will be helpful to the student. The chapters on the colon-typhoid group of bacilli and on malaria are examples.

Such subjects as the relation of bovine tuberculosis to that in man, the value of antimeningococcic serum, the use of bacterial vaccines, the etiology of anterior poliomyelitis and trachoma, and the prevention and cure of trypanosomiasis have been rewritten in the light of the new information which has been acquired since the writing of the preceding edition.

The revision of the different portions of the book has been divided between Dr. Williams and myself much as in the last edition. Dr. Williams has revised the portion of the book devoted to protozoa, while I have revised that on the pathogenic bacteria. We are greatly indebted to our associates in the laboratory for aid in many differ ent ways.

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