A Manual of Bacteriology: Clinical and Applied (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Manual of Bacteriology: Clinical and Applied<br><br>In what may be termed the economy of nature micro organisms are all-important; without them there would be no putrefaction no decay and the dead remains of animal and vegetable life would accumulate and encumber the earth which would become barren for the want of the organic matter originally derived from it but of which there was no return. In fact the higher plants and indirectly therefore animals also are dependent for their existence upon the presence of bacteria in the soil which break up and render assimilable complex substances used as manures.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.