ZINSSER BACTERIOLOGY

Rats, Lice, and Zinsser

ike many of my colleagues in academic medicine, I caught my first whiff of science from popular books about men and microbes. By the time we had finished high school, most of us had read and often reread Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters; Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith; and Rats, Lice and History by Hans Zinsser. It's hard nowadays to reread the work of de Kruif or Sinclair Lewis without a chuckle or...

Hans Zinsser: a tale of two cultures.

Hans Zinsser, president of the Society of American Bacteriologists in 1926, was known as much for his literary and textbook writing as for his scientific contributions. He was a widely known scientist and person of letters. His early interests in poetry and other forms of literature were maintained and developed during his career as a microbiologist, and his most enduring legacy is based on his...

Bacteriology Illustrated

Gillies, M.D., D.P.H., M.C.Path. and T. C. Dodds, F.I.M.L.T., F.I.B.P., F.R.P.S. (Pp, 170; figs. 122, 45s.) Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., 1965. THIS excellent bacteriological atlas has set a new standard for the visual appreciation of the cultural and microscopic appearances of pathogenic bacteria. The authors have taken advantage of developments in colour photography to overcome the ina...

General Bacteriology

This book is designed for use in undergraduate courses. The whole field of bacteriology is considered, without undue weight on any particular subdivision, in an attempt to give the student a broad and sound knowledge of the subject as a branch of science in itself, rather than as merely a tool useful in other sciences. The book is logically arranged, concisely and readably written, and well ill...

Clinical Bacteriology