Directions for Laboratory Work in Bacteriology : For the use of the Medical Classes in the University of Michigan
Ann Arbor MI: George Wahr, 1894.
Illustrated by Illustrated. Hardcover. Very Good- with no dust jacket. Item #14022
Library stamps/marks/labels/pocket residue, tone, prior owner's signature and stamps, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; Early laboratory manual written by pioneering bacteriologist Frederick G Novy while still a Junior Professor at the University of Michigan, where he had established the first laboratory course in bacteriology in the United States. "Novy was an early entrant in the field of bacteriological instruction. In 1894 he put out a short informal text on Laboratory Work in Bacteriology, which was elaborated, revised, and enlarged in a second edition in 1899. It came out through Novy's insistence, as noted in the preface of the book, that a thorough course of laboratory instruction in bacteriology was essential in the proper education of medical students. The text was based on the day-to-day work of the Hygienic Laboratory of the University of Michigan and represented the painstaking teaching that characterized all of Novy's efforts." - Esmond R Long, "Frederick George Novy 1864-1957: A biographical memoir"; National Academy of Sciences; page 332. Uncommon first edition of this pioneering work by a founder and fifth President of the Society of American Bacteriologists, dean of the Medical School at the University of Michigan, and noted researcher. ; Ex-Library; 209 pages.
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