Kanthack, A.A.; Drysdale, J.H. — A Course of Elementary Practical Bacteriology including bacteriological Analysis and Chemistry

MacMillan and Co. London xxii, 182, [2], 16 text figs. . HB. small 8vo, orig. cloth, spine slightly faded. Good. With bookplate of the Herbert Lister Bowman Library, Laboratory of Mineralogy, University of Oxford. Bowman (1874-1942) was Waynflete Professor of Mineralogy and Crystallography. Bowman's signature to endpaper.. An early practical laboratory manual of bacteriology, published at a time when the subject was becoming firmly established in medical teaching and public-health practice following the fundamental work of Pasteur and Koch. Kanthack and Drysdale developed the book from their experience of teaching bacteriology, principally at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. It was intended as a concise laboratory guide, particularly for students preparing for diplomas in Public Health, and covers general bacteriological techniques, bacteriological analysis and the chemical products of bacterial activity..