the result will be more than gratifying to the 
writer and of lasting benefit to student nurses. 
Not only has much assistance been obtained 
from reviewing work done for the “Graduate 
Nurses’ Hospital Extension Course,” but also 
from a review of the older work of hospital train¬ 
ing school days and notes of lectures of Dr. E. 
Gustave Zinke, Dr. Magnus A. Tate and Dr. 
James W. Rowe, particularly lectures with re¬ 
gard to Sepsis, Asepsis, Antisepsis, Infection, 
Disinfection, Sterilization, etc. In addition to 
these helps, my own experience of recent years 
as a teacher in training schools has proven of 
material benefit. 
My thanks are especially due to Dr. James W. 
Rowe for valuable information with regard to 
the discoverers of bacteria, given to me since be¬ 
ginning the preparation of the primer, and also 
for helpful suggestions during the work of proof 
reading; to Miss Aikens, of the Iowa Methodist 
Hospital, for a kindly review of the manuscript 
in the National Hospital Record; to Miss Susie 
L. Wanzer, one of the old pupils of the Thomas 
Hospital Training School for Nurses, Charleston, 
W. Va., who so efficiently assisted in preparing 
the manuscript for publication, and who also 
made for me the drawings for cuts representing 
the forms of bacteria mentioned in the text. 
Mary E. Reid. 
Cincinnati, O., July, 1904 . 
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