Essays on the Floating-Matter of the Air in Relation to Putrefaction and Infection

Beschreibung

xix, 338, [2], text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, rubbed, wear with some loss to top of spine. Ex-lib. Laboratory of Mineralogy, Oxford University. With book-plate of James Walker (Christ Church) (1857-1929), demonstrator in the Clarendon Laboratory, & Vice-President of the Physical Society. First edition. First appearance in book form of a collection of essays originally published in the Philosophical Transactions, and elsewhere. In this work, John Tyndall (1820-1893), the prominent 19th-century Irish physicist, writes about his pioneering experiments and discoveries in the field of bacteriology; he experimented with atmospheric germs and dust in relation to infection and putrefaction, leading to the discovery of fractional sterilization (Tyndallization). The five essays are headed; On Dust and Disease; Optical Deportment of the Atmosphere in Relation to Putrefaction and Infection; Further Researches on the Deportment and Vitality of Putrefactive Organisms; Fermentation, and its Bearings on Surgery and Medicine and Spontaneous Generation.

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Titel

Essays on the Floating-Matter of the Air in Relation to Putrefaction and Infection

Verlag

Longman, Green & Co., London

Erscheinungsjahr

1881

Einband

Hardcover

Auflage

1. Auflage

Zustand

Good

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• MEDICINE,GENERAL