Synopsis
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
It was only partly written when, in August 1914, I proceeded on active service. I was able, however, to complete it in the following summer while serving with a Field Ambulance in France, and in the autumn of the same year (1915) I submitted it in the form of aD issertation for the degree of M.D. at the University of Cambridge. The difficulties in carrying out work of this character while serving at the Front remote from libraries and amidst alarms and excursions which break up ones scanty leisure are sufficiently obvious and I trust may excuse some of its defects. Some valuable materials which I had hoped to utilise, including chapters on Viability and Agglutination Reactions, were buried by a shell explosion and could not be replaced. The claims of Army work have also precluded any attempt on my part to bring the work up to date by reference to papers published since the beginning of the war. I particularly regret having learnt too late to include any mention of it in the following pages of the valuable research carried out by Dr Thiele and Dr Embleton on the part played by the body ferments in the pathogenicity of bacteria. Though I have endeavoured to suppress all irrelevant matter, I am only too conscious of the discursiveness of this essay. The topic is one of absorbing interest and at every step one is tempted to digress. In the words of Dante, which I have quoted on the title page, The novelty must be my excuse if my pen has wandered at all.
(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.
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