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THIS is a laborious and conscientious compilation of facts about bacteria, made ostensibly with the object of removing the slur said to have been cast upon these minute vegetables by an unsympathetic and unenlightened public. Had the writer been rather less ambitious in his desire to impart all the information he has collected, the story he tries to tell might have gained in the telling, and we should have had less of a record and more of a narrative concerning the habits and idiosyncrasies which prevail amongst the members of a microbial community. The tone adopted is often authoritative, and we should be glad to learn on what grounds Mr. Conn ventures to assert so positively that “preventive medicine will always remain unimportant.”
The Story of Germ Life. Bacteria.
By H. W. Conn. From the Library of Useful Stories. (London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1897.)
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FRANKLAND, G. The Story of Germ Life Bacteria. Nature 56, 565 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056565a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/056565a0