The Bacteriology of Diphtheria: Including Sections on the History, Epidemiology and Pathology of the Disease, the Mortality Caused by It, the Toxins ... and the Serum Disease (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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Excerpt from The Bacteriology of Diphtheria: Including Sections on the History, Epidemiology and Pathology of the Disease, the Mortality Caused by It, the Toxins and Antitoxins and the Serum Disease

In such works a single chapter is the utmost Space which can be allotted to the consideration of a single organism, however great its importance, and much of this space is necessarily devoted to a description of its morphology and cultural characters. Questions dealing with the history of its discovery, mode of distribution, relation to other organisms and practical diagnosis, as well as those concerning the epidemiology, pathology, prevention and serum therapeutics of the disease which it produces, many of which are involved In great obscurity, have to be discussed In a few paragraphs.

Besides these works, which deal shortly with all the species of bacteria pathogenic to man, a few monographs and reports have been published dealing exhaustively with special points in the bacteriology or prevention of certain diseases.

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