Manual of bacteriology for practitioners and students : with special reference to practical methods / tr. from the German with and appendix by W.R. Dawson.

  • Schenk, Samuel Leopold, 1840-1902.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Manual of bacteriology for practitioners and students : with special reference to practical methods / tr. from the German with and appendix by W.R. Dawson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TRANSLATOK’S PREFACE The present is practically a new edition in English of Professor Schenk’s Gntmlriss der Bakhn-iolofiie, published in Germany some months ago, the scope and intention of which the Author has explained so fully in his preface that it is unnecessary to touch upon them here. Numerous additions, manj'- of which have been furnished by Professor Schenk, have been made both in the body of the text and in notes. Those by the Translator are distinguished, where of anj^ importance, by square bi’ackets when in the text, as on p. 92, and in the case of foot-notes by square brackets with the letters ‘ —Tr.’ following, as on p. 21. The Author originally intended to write an appendix, in order to bring the English edition up to date, but this was found unnecessary, owing to the short time since the ap- pearance of the work in Germany, and the few additions required for this purpose have been incorporated in the text. It was, however, decided at the last moment, in view of the attention lately attracted to those subjects, to furnish a brief account of M. Haffkine’s anti-cholera vaccination, together with the results of recent research on the