CHAPTER III 



METHODS OF STUDY 1 



THE slow development of bacteriology was largely 

 due to the lack of method in the study; and not 

 until Pasteur, Koch, and others demonstrated 

 that methods of scientific exactness must be em- 

 ployed was any real progress made. Until this 

 was done the mere fact that bacteria existed stood 

 for very little, as no one could say what effects 

 they produced nor what part they rilled in the 

 scheme of nature. 



"The technique of bacteriology is one of its 

 greatest contributions to both science and art, and 

 the use of so valuable and simple a tool should be 

 mastered not only by the biological teacher, but 

 by practical workers in medicine, hygiene, and 

 many other fields." (Jordan.) 



While bacteriological work in the laboratory 

 will be no part of a graduate nurse's duty, a short 

 course when she is a pupil is necessary to prepare 



1 For reference : A Laboratory Guide in Bacteriology, Heinemann 



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