Bacteriology in a Nutshell 



A Primer for Nurses 



COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY 



GRADUATE NURSE, 



Superintendent Thomas Hospital Training School for Nurses, 



Charleston, W. Va., 1898-02; Assistant Instructor in General 



Nursing, Woman's Branch o£ the German Hospital 



Cincinnati, O., 1904; Principal of the Training 



School and Superintendent of Nurses, 



Charleston General Hospital, 



Charleston, W. Va., 1905-07. 



First Edition, 1904, 



Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, 1907. 



Third Edition, 1908. — Fourth Edition, 1909. 



Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged, 1910. 



DEDICATION. 



To Charlotte A. Aikens, Author of Hospital Housekeeping; 

 Training School Methods and The Head Nurse and Primary 

 Studies for Jvurses, to whose suggestion this booklet owes its 

 origin; to my dear friend and old Superintendent, Sister Emili6 

 Koch, of the German Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio; and to my sister 

 nurses throughout the world, "Bacteriology in a Nutshell" is moat 

 affectionately dedicated. 



CINCINNATI, OHIO. 

 JULYj 1904. 



charleston-on-kanawha, w. va., 

 1 907- 1 908-1909-19 10. 



