Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet The spot. Adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath in. Let it out slowly. And off we go.

Tonight we're reading bacteria especially as they are related to the economy of nature, to industrial processes, and to the public health, by George Newman, MD, FRS Edinburgh, D.P.H. Cambridge, etc.

Demonstrator of bacteriology in Kings College London.

Copyright 1899 by GP Putnam's sons and the Nickerbacher Press, New York.

Let's begin.

Preface

The present volume is not a Preface

The present volume is not a record of original work, nor is it a textbook for the laboratory.

Theoretical and practical textbooks of bacteriology plentifully exist both in England and America.

There are two large works widely used, one by Professor Crookshank, entitled Bacteriology

and Infective Diseases, the other by Dr. Sternberg, a manual of bacteriology.

There are also in English, a number of smaller works by Abbott, Ball, Hewlett, Klein, McFarland, Muir, Ritchie, and Simms Woodhead.

This book is of a less technical nature.

It is an attempt in response to the editor of this science series to set forth a popular scientific

statement of our present knowledge of bacteria. Popular science is a somewhat dangerous quantity with which to deal. On the one hand, it may

become too popular. the other too technical.

It is difficult to escape the Scylla and Coribdis

in such a voyage. I am much indebted to Professor Crookshank, who in reading the

manuscript has helped me by many valuable criticisms. My thanks are also due to Sir CTD Ackland for many kind

suggestions and to Mr. E.J. Spita, MRCS, who has been good enough to take a number of excellent

photo micrographs for me. Some other illustrations have been derived from the

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