A Textbook of Microbiology
Contents: Preface. 1. The scope and character of microbiology. 2. History of microbiology. 3. The founding of bacteriology and immunology. 4. Properties and classification of micro-organisms. 5. The protozoa. 6. The fungi and the mold-like higher bacteria. 7. The spirochetes, rickettsiae and filtrable viruses. 8. The true bacteria. 9. The activities of nonpathogenic saprophytic bacteria. 10. The microscope. 11. Microscope methods. 12. Culture media. 13. Culture methods. 14. Isolation and identification of bacteria. 15. Collection of specimens for bacteriological examination. 16. Destruction of micro-organisms by physical methods. 17. Destruction of micro-organisms by chemical germicides. 18. Sources of infection : the spread of disease by personal contact. 19. Prevention of contact infection: practical aseptic technique. 20. Infection through contaminated water, milk and other foods : Insect-borne infection. 21. Microbes and disease. 22. Reaction of the body to infection. 23. Natural and acquired immunity. 24. Practical use of vaccines and immune serums. 25. Anaphylaxis or hypersensitiveness. 26. Infection of the skin: staphylococcus infections. 27. Infection of wounds: tetanus and gas gangrene. 28. Infections of the mouth and throat : streptococcus infections, scarlet fever, Vincent\'s Angina. 29. Diphtheria. 30. Infection of the respiratory tract : common colds, virus diseases, whooping cough. 31. Pneumonia. 32. Eye and ear infections: meningitis. 33. Infections of the genitourinary tract: gonorrhea, syphilis. 34. Intestinal infections and intoxications: food poisoning, botulism. 35. Typhoid and paratyphoid fever dysentery cholera. 36. Tuberculosis. 37. Infections acquired from animals. 38. Important virus diseases. 39. Actinomycosis and fungous infections. 40. Amebiasis and malaria.
"In this book the author has tried to take a middle course and to evolve a text which is neither too elementary nor too advanced. The style and arrangement, as well as the content, have been chosen with the deliberate purpose of making the complex and necessarily somewhat technical subject matter of microbiology and immunology as readily understandable as possible. An attempt has been made to avoid anticipating a knowledge on the part of the student which he may not rightfully be expected to have, and throughout the book the endeavor is to move always from the known to the unknown. Stress has been laid on the practical application of microbiological knowledge to the prevention of disease.
The microbiology of individual diseases is taken up from the point of view of the region of the body principally affected, the normal flora of that region is discussed, and the important pathological conditions of the part are introduced; then the micro-organisms responsible for these conditions, or likely to be present, are described. This arrangement seems to the author more logical than the conventional division of diseases into those caused by cocci, by bacilli, etc., and has found great favour with students." (jacket)
