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3ACTERIOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS. By James Eisenbekg, PhD., M.D., 
Vienna. Translated by N. H. Pierce, M.D., Chicago, Ill. Philadelphia: 
F. A. Davis Co. 
Every medical student, whether beginner or in an ad¬ 
vanced class, or graduate, old or young, whose determina¬ 
tion it is to keep posted in his studies with the progress made 
luring the past few years in bacteriology, must have read a. 
great deal upon that subject, and at the same time must have 
regretted that lack of time has prevented him from mastering 
ill that has been written and published, or found himself 
unable to apply to practical use all that he may have learned. 
The science of bacteriology is so complicated ; the demon¬ 
strative work sometimes so difficult to execute ; the posses¬ 
sion of a laboratory, however small, so expensive, and the 
printed and published matter pertaining to biological and 
allied subjects so voluminous, and the related diseases so 
diverse and so numerous, and indeed the whole subject so 
Large, that it cannot be considered surprising that, after all, 
the domain of bacteriology has remained unvisited by so 
many and thoroughly explored by so few, and that it has had 
so few really enthusiastic and hard-working explorers. 
But this condition of things may be considered as measur¬ 
ably, at least, abolished. “ Bacteriological Diagnosis,” with its 
137 tables, and the Appendix which follows them, on the 
technique employed in the cultivation and staining of bac¬ 
teria, has relieved the subject of many of its difficulties, con¬ 
densing as it does in illustrative plates, and in a few lines and 
2ven a few words, the characters which belong to the non- 
uathogenic and pathogenic bacteria, and to the fungi. Each 
table gives for each individual the place where it is found, 
with its form and arrangement, motility, mode and rapidity 
uf growth, of temperature required, spore formation, 
terobiosis, gas production, gelatine reaction, color produc¬ 
tion, and pathogenesis; representing, in fact, almost at a 
glance, every interesting point in the life and power of the 
Dacteria, so that it may be found and confirmed by a little 
attention and application. 
The book may have been written principally for medical 
