Household Bacteriology 



BY 



ESTELLE D. BUCHANAN, M.S. 

 Recently Assistant Professor of Botany, Iowa State College 



AND 



ROBERT EARLE BUCHANAN, PH.D. 



Professor of Bacteriology, Iowa State College, and 

 Bacteriologist of the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station 



Cloth, 8vo., XV+ 536pp., index, $2.25 net 



The word Household is used as an extension rather than a limitation of the 

 title. In a thoroughly scientific manner the authors treat the subject-matter 

 of general as well as of household bacteriology and include, therefore, the 

 true bacteria as well as the yeasts, molds and protozoa. The volume is, 

 therefore, a general textbook of micro-biology in which special attention 

 is given to those problems which are of particular interest to the student of 

 household science. The main divisions of the book treat (i) the micro- 

 organisms themselves, (2) fermentations with special reference to those 

 affecting foods, (3) the relations of bacteria and other micro-organisms to 

 health. A fully illustrated key (comprising 37 pages) to the families and 

 genera of common molds, supplements the unusually extended discussion 

 of the morpholo'gy and classification of yeasts and molds, and makes possible 

 the satisfactory identification of all forms ordinarily encountered by the 

 student. The work embodies the results of the most recent researches. The 

 book is exceptionally well written, the different topics are treated con- 

 sistently and with a good sense of proportion. While concise in statement, it 

 is thorough in method and scope. It is, therefore, well adapted for use as a 

 text not only for students of household science, but also for those to whom it is 

 desired to present the science of bacteriology from an economic and sanitary 

 rather than from a strictly medical point of view. 



"The book is a concisely written work on microbiology, a branch of 

 economic science that the public is beginning gradually to understand, has 

 important relationship to the total welfare and prosperity of the com- 

 munity. . . . The manual can be recommended as a very good elementary 

 bacteriology. It comprises about all there is of practical domestic value." 



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