Microbiologia Medica Tomo I Bacteriologia

Author : Philip Hanson Hiss
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330361191
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book A Text-Book of Bacteriology written by Philip Hanson Hiss and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Text-Book of Bacteriology: A Practical Treatise, for Students and Practitioners of Medicine The volume here presented Ls primarily a treatise on the fundamental laws and technique of Bacteriology, as illustrated by their application to the study of pathogenic bacteria. So ubiquitous are the bacteria and so manifold their activities that Bacteriology, although one of the youngest of sciences, has already been divided into special fields - Medical, Sanitary, Agricultural, and Industrial - having little in common, except problems of general bacterial physiology arid certain fundamental technical procedures. From no other point of approach, however, is such a breadth of conception attainable, as through the study of bacteria in their relation to disease processes in man and animals. Through such a study one must become familiar not only with the growth characteristics and products of the bacteria apart from the animal body, thus gaining a knowledge of methods and procedures common to the study of pathogenic and non-pathogenic organisms, but also with those complicated reactions taking place between the bacteria and their products on the one hand and the cells and fluids of the animal body on the other - reactions which often manifest themselves as symptoms and lesions of disease or by visible changes in the test tube. Through a study and comprehension of the processes underlying these reactions, our knowledge of cell physiology has been broadened, and facts of inestimable value have been discovered, which have thrown light upon some of the most obscure problems of infection and immunity and have led to hitherto unsuspected methods of treatment and diagnosis. Thus, through Medical Bacteriology - that highly specialized offshoot of General Biology and Pathology - have been given back to the parent sciences and to Medicine in general methods and knowledge of the widest application. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.