Medical Microbiology

THIS work, which is intended both for students and their teachers, is divided into four parts and five appendixes. The first part, which deals with the fundamentals of microbiology, consists of sixteen chapters, including an account of the historical aspects of the subject, the various types of micro-organisms, their classification and nomenclature, and their destruction by physical and chemical methods. The second part is concerned with the laboratory study of micro-organisms, and gives a description of the apparatus, culture media, isolation of bacteria and the collection of specimens for bacteriological examination. In the third part, which deals with infection and resistance, sources of infection, modes of spread by water, milk and other foods, the part played by insects, natural and acquired immunity, vaccine and serum therapy, and anaphylaxis receive attention. In the fourth part the microbiology of important infectious diseases is studied, including tetanus, diphtheria, pneumonia, typhoid and paratyphoid fever, staphylococcus and streptococcus infections, etc. The appendixes are devoted to a comparison of metric and English scales, formulae for the preparation of media, reagents and stains, important immunological tests, classified lists of references, and questions to which the answers will be found in the foregoing pages.Medical MicrobiologyBy Prof. Kenneth L. Burdon. Pp. xii + 763. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939.) 18s. 6d. net.