Researches on micro-organisms : including an account of recent experiments on the destruction of microbes in certain infectious diseases, phthisis, etc / by A.B. Griffiths.

  • Griffiths, A. B. (Arthur Bower), 1859-
Date:
1891
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Credit: Researches on micro-organisms : including an account of recent experiments on the destruction of microbes in certain infectious diseases, phthisis, etc / by A.B. Griffiths. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PAOB Introduction : Birth of Bacteriology—Theories of Fermentation —Early Researches on the Sterilization of Elasks, etc.—Davaine's Discovery of the Microbe of Anthrax—Microbes and Disease— Koch's Axioms, etc. 1 CHAPTER II. Bacteriological Apparatus, etc. : The Microscope—The Microtome —Photo-micrographic Apparatus—Hardening Reagents, etc.— Sterilizers—Incubators—Methods of Cultivation and Cultivating Media—The Examination of Fresh Tissues and Fluids—Drop Cultures—Staining and Mounting, etc. ----- 6 CHAPTER III. General Remarks concerning Microbes : Classification of Microbes —Sizes and Weights of Microbes—Propagation of Microbes— Division of Microbes—Cohn's Classification—Pleomorphi.sm— The Study of Pathogenic and Non-Pathogenic Microbes—The Importance of Bacteriology, etc. - - - - - - 31 CHAPTER IV. The Distribution of Microbes, etc. : Air, Soil, and Water Im- portant Factors in the Distribution of Microl)es—(Quantitative Ii;atimation of Aerial Microbes : Tiie Methods of Miquel, Pdtri, Frankland, Gautier, and Hesse ; Researches of Fischer, Ariquel, Moreau, Carnclley, Petri, Frankland, Griffiths, and others, on Aiirial Microbes—The Microbes of tiio Soil : Patho- genic Microbes isolated from Soils ; I\ itrification : Warington's and Frankland'a Researches —The MicroVies of Watku : Methods of examining Waters for Microbes;' Ruseaiches of Miquel, Frankland, Griffiths, and others—Air, Soil, and Water Im- portant Factors in the Distribution of iJi.seases, etc. - - 44