Medical Sciences

Abstract

THIS book, as the author is careful to point out, is intended to serve as a ground-work for those who are beginning the study of bacteriology as a biological science; it is in no sense an advanced text-book on the subject. In nearly seven hundred pages of excellent print the elementary principles are covered, ranging from the physiology and morphology of micro-organisms to the bacteriology of water, soil, air, food, etc., with short chapters also on infection and immunity and the diseases of plants and animals. An attempt has also been made to make the work a combined text-book and laboratory manual. This has been done by including short experimental sections at certain points in each chapter. A useful bibliography of the more important text-books and original papers is included at suitable places throughout the text. The task of compiling a book of this nature is a formidable one for a single author, and no doubt, for this reason, some obvious defects have arisen. In certain sections the facts presented are either completely out of date or they are not, as yet, accepted by the majority of workers. On the whole, however, the material is well presented and should be readily assimilated by the student.

Fundamental Principles of Bacteriology

With Laboratory Exercises. By Prof. A. J. Salle. Pp. xiii + 679. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co. Inc., 1939.) 24s.