BACTERIOLOGY.
| PROFESSOR TUTTLE, |
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| Dr. DAVIS, |
Mr. BAKER, |
| Dr. SKEEN, |
Mr. GORDON. |
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 student an intelligent idea 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 the methods
resorted to for their manipulations, the most important
processes of bactericultural technique being as far as possible
fully illustrated and demonstrated in the laboratory.
The whole course intended to form a proper preliminary to
the specific discussion of the pathogenic bacteria which
finds its proper place in the course in Pathology.
Text-Books Recommended.—Abbott's Principles of Bacteriology;
the Professor's Introduction to the Bacteria; Sternberg's or Crookshank's
Manual of Bacteriology.
