BACTERIOLOGY.
| Professor Tuttle, |
Dr. Graham, |
| Dr. Davis, |
Dr. Bumgardner, |
| Dr. Skeen, |
Mr. Laning. |
Bacteriology is taught by lectures accompanied by practical work in
the laboratory. The instruction given at the University in this subject
differs from that given in most schools of medicine in several important
respects. It is very commonly the case that the student is
brought almost at the very outset into relation with the bacteria of
disease, the whole or the larger part of the course of instruction
being given to their specific study, the technique involved in their culture
and determination, and the specific products of their activity.
These are all matters of the highest importance, and should by no
means be neglected; but exact and extensive knowledge of them may
be and too often is associated with entire ignorance of the real nature
and affinities of the Bacteria, the general principles of vegetable
physiology of which their characteristic activities constitute a special
case, and of the essential conditions on which their culture depends.
Believing that the educated physician should, as far as possible, know
the scientific principles on which his professional knowledge rests,
provision has been made for a short course which deals with the
Bacteria from the botanical standpoint, discussing the general morphology
and physiology of plants to an extent sufficient to give the studentan
intelligentidea of the place of these organisms in the vegetable
kingdom and of the relation of their life to that of other plants. This
knowledge is made the basis of the farther discussion of their economic
relations, their action as causes of disease, and of the methods resorted
to for their manipulation, the most important processes of bactericultural
technique, as far as possible, fully illustrated and demonstrated
in the laboratory. The whole course is intended to form a proper preliminary
to the specific discussion of the pathogenic bacteria which
finds its regular place in the course in Pathology.
Text-Book.—The Professor's Introduction to the Bacteria. For reference:
Sternberg's or Crookshank's Manual of Bacterology.
