Vorlesungen über Bacterien

Abstract

IT is sometimes alleged that bacteriology has suffered, as a pure science, from its association with medicine, since its pathological side has become disproportionately developed. This statement is certainly no longer justified, for the applications of the science, to agricultural and manufacturing industries have been found almost as important to the farmer, the dairyman, and the chemist as they have been to the pathologist. Prof. Fischer's book is one which fills a distinct gap in bacteriological literature. Himself a botanist, he treats the subject from a broad and general standpoint. Without neglecting the pathogenic organisms he deals with them only, as it were, incidentally, and the book presents an admirable and judicial summary of the present state of knowledge of bacteriology in its widest and truest sense. It forms a valuable introduction to the subject from whatever point of view it is to be studied, since it affords a solid groundwork upon which more technical and special knowledge may afterwards be built.

Vorlesungen über Bacterien.

Von Dr. Alfred Fischer Professor der Botanik in Leipzig. Pp. 186. (Jena: Gustav Fischer, 1897.)