Household Bacteriology 



By 



ESTELLE D. BUCHANAN, M.S. 

 Recently Assistant Professor of Botany, Iowa State College 



ROBERT EARLE BUCHANAN, Ph.D. 



Professor of Bacteriology, Iowa State College, and Bacteriologist of the 



Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station 



Cloth, 8vo, XV+B36 pp., index, tSM 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, there- ' 

 fore, 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 (1) 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 imusually ex- 

 tended discussion of the morphology and classification of yeasts and 

 molds, and makes possible the satisfactory identification of aU forms or- 

 dinarily 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 consistently and with a good sense of propor- 

 tion. While concise in statement, it is thorough in method and scope. It 

 is, therefore, well adapted for use as a text not only /or 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 

 inedical point of view. 



"The book is a concisely written work on micro-biology, 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." 



— Boston Advertiser. 



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