Pathogenic micro-organisms : including bacteria and Protozoa; a practical manual for students, physicians and health officers / by William Hallock Park...and Anna W. Williams...with 196 engravings and 8 full-page plates.

  • Park, William Hallock, 1863-1939.
Date:
1910
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Credit: Pathogenic micro-organisms : including bacteria and Protozoa; a practical manual for students, physicians and health officers / by William Hallock Park...and Anna W. Williams...with 196 engravings and 8 full-page plates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION. The small volume which made the first edition of this book was called Bacteriology in Medicine and Surgery. It was written to make available for others the practical knowledge which had been acquired in the work of the bacteriological laboratories of the City of New York and was intended more for medical practitioners, than for medical students or laboratory workers. When the first editions had been exhausted the improvement in methods of cultivating and study- ing the protozoa had reached a point rendering it advantageous to in- clude the animal as well as the vegetable germs. This was done, and the title of the third edition was altered to conform with the text which had been broadened to cover the whole field of pathogenic microorganisms. The book in its later editions has come to be used in an ever- increasing degree by medical students, so that while its point of view has remained the same, namely, to dwell especially on the relations of microorganisms to disease in man, it has been thought wise to touch on other aspects; thus, in this fourth edition a chapter has been added upon the bacteria concerned in agriculture and in some of the important fermentations. The bringing out of this new edition has enabled Dr. Williams and myself to rewrite a number of portions of the book with which we were not satisfied. We have also rearranged this material and added a number of tables which we believe will be helpful to the student. The chapters on the colon-typhoid group of bacilli and on malaria are examples. Such subjects as the relation of bovine tuberculosis to that in man, the value of antimeningococcic serum, the use of bacterial vaccines, the etiology of anterior poliomyelitis and trachoma, and the prevention and cure of trypanosomiasis have been rewritten in the light of the new information which has been acquired since the writing of the preceding edition. I he revision of the different portions of the book has been divided between Dr. Williams and myself much as in the last edition. Dr. Williams has revised the portion of the book devoted to protozoa, while I have revised that on the pathogenic bacteria. We are greatly indebted to our associates in the laboratory for aid in many differ- ent ways. I his new edition, like its immediate predecessors, is intended to answer the needs of the students and physicians, and to cover the whole subject of pathogenic microorganisms from their standpoint. W. H. P. New York, 1910.