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A manual of determinative bacteriology
REVIEWS.
Bovine Obstetrics. By M. G. de Bruin, Instructor of Obstetrics at the State Veterinary School in Utrecht. Translated by W. E. A. Wyman, M.D.V., V.S. London: Balliere, Tindall & Cox, 190I.
IN translating into English Professor de Bruin's excellent text-book on
Bovine Obstetrics, Dr Wyman has laid British and American veterinary surgeons and students under a debt of gratitude. The work represents the happy medium between the booklets which are adapted for cramming purposes by the student, and the ponderous tomes which, although useful to the teacher, are not exactly suited to the requirements of the everyday practitioner. It extends to 377 pages, and contains seventy-seven excellent illustrations. It treats in succession of the physiology of normal pregnancy and parturition, the diseases and accidents of pregnancy, the morbid conditions of the fcetus and its annexes, abnormal parturition and obstetrical operations, the diseases apt to follow labour, and the special affections of the young calf. Both translator and publisher have done their work in a way that deserves praise, and we can strongly recommend the work to veterinary students and practitioners.
A Manual of Determinative Bacteriology. By Frederick D. Chester, Bacteriologist of the Delaware College Agricultural Experiment Station, and Director of the Laboratory of the State Board of Health of Delaware. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1901. THE author of this work has set himself a very ddficult task. In the preface he says: ,. To the student working in the laboratory the determination of unknown bacteria has been almost impossible, except with the expenditure of an amount of labour which was impracticable. With the use of the present manual it is believed that the teacher can place a given culture in the hands of his pupil and expect him to determine it, as is done with other organic forms." \Ve doubt whether any experienced teacher of bacteriology The author has laboriously will share this very sanguine expectation. collated and condensed the description of almost all the known pathogenic and saprophytic bacteria, and for certain purposes the work will undoubtedly be useful; but when it is stated that the account given of many important organisms is contained in ten lines or less, the absurdity of expecting a student to identify a given culture by the aid of the information herein given, becomes apparent. For example, only six lines are given to the characters of Bang's abortion bacillus, and the most important of its cultural peculiarities, without which it cannot be identified, is omitted. Moreover, there are serious sins of commission as well as of omission, such as the statement that the bacillus of quarter-evil is stainable by Gram's method.
Bovine Obstetrics. By M. G. de Bruin, Instructor of Obstetrics at the State Veterinary School in Utrecht. Translated by W. E. A. Wyman, M.D.V., V.S. London: Balliere, Tindall & Cox, 190I.
IN translating into English Professor de Bruin's excellent text-book on
Bovine Obstetrics, Dr Wyman has laid British and American veterinary surgeons and students under a debt of gratitude. The work represents the happy medium between the booklets which are adapted for cramming purposes by the student, and the ponderous tomes which, although useful to the teacher, are not exactly suited to the requirements of the everyday practitioner. It extends to 377 pages, and contains seventy-seven excellent illustrations. It treats in succession of the physiology of normal pregnancy and parturition, the diseases and accidents of pregnancy, the morbid conditions of the fcetus and its annexes, abnormal parturition and obstetrical operations, the diseases apt to follow labour, and the special affections of the young calf. Both translator and publisher have done their work in a way that deserves praise, and we can strongly recommend the work to veterinary students and practitioners.
A Manual of Determinative Bacteriology. By Frederick D. Chester, Bacteriologist of the Delaware College Agricultural Experiment Station, and Director of the Laboratory of the State Board of Health of Delaware. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1901. THE author of this work has set himself a very ddficult task. In the preface he says: ,. To the student working in the laboratory the determination of unknown bacteria has been almost impossible, except with the expenditure of an amount of labour which was impracticable. With the use of the present manual it is believed that the teacher can place a given culture in the hands of his pupil and expect him to determine it, as is done with other organic forms." \Ve doubt whether any experienced teacher of bacteriology The author has laboriously will share this very sanguine expectation. collated and condensed the description of almost all the known pathogenic and saprophytic bacteria, and for certain purposes the work will undoubtedly be useful; but when it is stated that the account given of many important organisms is contained in ten lines or less, the absurdity of expecting a student to identify a given culture by the aid of the information herein given, becomes apparent. For example, only six lines are given to the characters of Bang's abortion bacillus, and the most important of its cultural peculiarities, without which it cannot be identified, is omitted. Moreover, there are serious sins of commission as well as of omission, such as the statement that the bacillus of quarter-evil is stainable by Gram's method.