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APPLIED BACTERIOLOGY: 



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By T. H. PEARMAIN and C. G. MOOR, M.A., 



Members of the Society of Public Analysts, Associates Royal Institute of Public Health, etc. 



Illustrated with Forty Woodcuts and Eighty-one Coloured Figures 

 OF Preparations, Cultures, etc. 



JEjtvacts from press IKlotices on first lEbltion. 



The British Medical Journal, December 19, 1896. 

 ' Tliis handbook appears to contain all the bacteriological information which a medical 

 officer of health is lilcely to require. . . . The authors nave selected and arranged their 

 material with judgment, and have succeeded in presenting it in a scientific spirit. Thus the 

 importance of the chemical examination of water is shown as clearly as the incapacity of 

 such analysis to reveal bacterial contamination, and the remarks on sand-filters account in 

 advance for the liability to failure which has since been so strikingly shown in London. . . . 

 On many subjects — as, for instance, in the account of the examination of disinfectants — the 

 authors show a just appreciation of the limits within which inferences from experiments are 

 justified; and those who have approached bacteriology after the study of the physical 

 sciences, will know how rare this sense is in the exposition of the latter science.' 



The Lancet, October 31, 1896. 

 •This work, though it claims to be especially suitable for medical officers of health, may 

 be accepted as appealing to a somewhat wider clientele, as, although the ground covered 

 necessarily comes within the domain of a medical officer of health, there is little in the book 

 which should not be thoroughly understood by every student of bacteriology. . . . The 

 book is well got up, and the coloured illustrations of the naked-eye growths and mioroseopio 

 appearances of organisms add very distinctly to the value of tbe work, which, taken 

 altogether, may be recommended as a convenient and accurate account of the methods with 

 which a public analyst should be conversant in order that he may carry on bacteriological 

 investigations with any chance of obtaining satisfactory results, and we congratulate the 

 authors on the manner in which they have placed before their confreres the information 

 that they have been able to collect.' 



The Journal of State Medecine, January, 1897. 

 ' For some time past we have recognised the fact that a terse yet comprehensive 

 account of the science of bacteriology, together with the principal practical methods 

 necessary for its study, was much needed. The present volume seems to answer admirably 

 these requirements. . . . We have nothing but praise for this work. We can confidently 

 recommend this book to all who are interested in the study of bacteriology. ' 



The Analyst, January, 1897. 



'This work, which is primarily intended as a handbook for students and medical 

 practitioners, contains much that will be found of the greatest practical value to the analyst, 

 who is now frequently called upon to perform bacteriological investigations. In order to 

 keep the book within the limits of handy size, the authors have endeavoured to select from 

 the vast amount of material at their disposal only those portions the results of which have 

 been established, or are likely to be so in the near future. , The practical portion of the worli, 

 as might be expected from the wide experience of the authors, has been exceptionally well 

 done ... the chapter referring to the methods of spread of disease has been treated in a 

 somewhat novel and ingenious manner. . . . We congratulate the authors on the pro- 

 duction of a really useful book, eminently adapted for those who want the essence of the 

 subject given in a lucid and terse form.' 



The Chemical News, October 23, 1896. 



' In the face of a writer who asserts in the columns of an esteemed medical contem- 

 porary that "the whole modern science of bacteriology is a gigantic mistake, we must 

 venture to pronounce this work a timely and useful contribution to our hygienic literature 

 and to offer to the authors our warmest congratulations. ... We think this book should 

 be studied not merely by professional men, but by the members of County Councils, and all 

 persons having to concern themselves with public health.' 



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