BACTERIOLOGY IN A NUTSHELL. 
INTRODUCTORY. 
In compiling this small primer of bacteriology 
for junior nurses, the work along bacteri¬ 
ological lines prepared as one of the mem¬ 
bers of the class of students of “The Grad¬ 
uate Nurses’ Hospital Extension Course,” in 
October, 1903 , has been used as a basis. 
Nothing new in the way of theory has 
been attempted. Much rather would the writer 
join the ranks of her sister nurses who so bravely 
have enlisted to help the noble army of physicians 
and surgeons fight a victorious warfare against 
that branch of the bacteria family called “disease 
germs.” Most gladly would we all as nurses see 
these tiny foes to health destroyed forever. 
Superintendents of training schools have 
realized for some years that a few easily com¬ 
prehended lessons on bacteriology for junior 
nurses are necessary. The sole aim of “Bacteri¬ 
ology in a Nutshell” is to present to young 
nurses just starting out in the study of the 
germ theory of disease some of its principal 
teachings as briefly and as simply as possible. 
If the contents of this booklet have been made 
sufficiently clear to be easily grasped by those for 
whose benefit it is intended, and if it serves as 
an incentive to further study and research into 
this most interesting and useful branch of science, 
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