A Contribution to the Germ Theory of Putrefaction and Other Fermentative Changes and to the Natural History of Torulae and Bacteria. From the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Vol. XXVII. INSCRIBED "From the Author"

LISTER, Joseph

Verlag: Edinburgh: Printed for the Society by Neill and Company, 1875., 1875

1 leaf [title page], pp. 313-44; text illus.; plates XXII-XXVI. 4to. Plain wrappers (may or may not be original). Removed from a bound volume. Wrappers soiled. First Separate Edition. INSCRIBED: "From the author." The inscription is in another hand, probably secretarial, as is often the case with inscribed Lister publications. Lister's first paper on his bacteriological researches (although the second to be published). "His lengthy address to the Royal Society of [Edinburgh] in [April] 1873, on the germ theory of putrefaction and other fermentative changes, was largely provoked by Burdon-Sanderson's report 'On the Origin and Distribution of Microzymes in Water.' (1871), which claimed that bacteria are conveyed by water but not by air, and are killed by simple drying at 1000 F. These contentions, if true, would have nullified Lister's efforts to provide an 'antiseptic atmosphere' in surgical practice. In unboiled human urine taken with antiseptic precautions, bacteria grew when drops of tap water were added and also after this medium had been exposed for some hours to room air" (D.S.B. 8: 406). Godlee, Lord Lister, 3rd ed., pp. 269-71. See Garrison-Morton 2484 for Lister's "Further Contribution", his second paper on bacteriology (but the first to be published). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 7393

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Titel: A Contribution to the Germ Theory of ...
Verlag: Edinburgh: Printed for the Society by Neill and Company, 1875.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1875
Einband: Soft cover
Zustand: Good
Signiert: Signed by Author(s)
Auflage: 1st Edition