BACTERIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY 

 FOR NURSES 



BACTERIOLOGY 



INTRODUCTION 



THE story of the development of the science of bac- 

 teriology reads like a romance. For untold ages man 

 struggled blindly and desperately with an unseen foe. 

 Struggled helplessly and afraid, because of the nature 

 of this dread adversary he knew nothing; he could 

 neither see, hear, nor feel it; it came and went like a 

 specter in the night, and man knew it only by the havoc 

 it wrought, and he measured its power by the dead 

 bodies of its victims. Wild beasts and poisonous 

 snakes he had conquered; heat and cold, storm and calm, 

 mountains' heights and oceans' depths he had learned 

 to circumvent, or had made to minister to his needs; 

 but still this silent, invisible foe stalked up and down the 

 face of the earth exacting its grim toll of life and health. 



Groping blindly, man learned some things about this 

 unseen enemy. He learned that it sometimes infested 

 the food that he ate or the water that he drank, but he 



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