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THIS work, comprising more than one thousand pages and a comprehensive index, is a valuable addition to the already extensive literature of the subject of bacteriology. As the title of the work indicates, it deals with bacteriology, not only from the purely scientific point of view, but also from the technical and applied, inasmuch as its application to industry and to sanitation forms an important part of the work. The book is divided into four principal divisions. The first division treats of the morphology, the chemical, physical and other conditions concerning the composition, growth and reproduction of bacteria, and capable of affecting them favourably or unfavourably. It deals, further, with the methods used in cultivation, the culture media, their preparation and their physiological action in the human and animal body. In the same division is found an account of the methods of staining bacteria, their spores and cilia, both from cultures and from animal tissues. And lastly, the optical instruments used in the study of bacteria (microscopes, photomicrographs, magnifying glasses, &c.)are treated in chapter ix. All these subjects are treated in a clear and comprehensive manner, very useful and sufficient for the student of bacteriology, and in many instances brought up to the most recent times, so that both student and original worker have the advantage of the most recent improvements in the methods of the study of bacteria. While, therefore, the reader has in the 236 pages constituting this first part all that it is of real importance to know concerning the most modern methods in bacteriology, he misses a good deal concerning some modern vTews of the morphology and classification (Migula, Meyer).
Traité de Bactériologie pure et appliquée à la Médicine et à l'Hygiène.
Par MM. P. Miquel R. Cambier. Pp. xv + 1059. (Paris: C. Naud, 1902.) Price fr. 45.
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KLEIN, E. Traité de Bactériologie pure et appliquée à la Médicine et à l'Hygiène . Nature 66, 316 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/066316a0
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