Handbook of Health and Nursing; A Complete Home-Study Course Comprising: Household Bacteriology (Classic Reprint)

January 1, My dear Madam: In beginning our work inH ousehold Bacteriology together I should like to make a few suggestions as to aims and methods of study. The aimg to he reached in the study of any science are at least two a knowledge of its underlying principles and as thorough an application of those principles as is possible. For the principles you will consult the lesson booklets. From them, too, you will gat suggested applications, but the subject wixl not become a. part of yourself until you recognize new applications nany times tt day. It is said that no person KNOWS a foreign language until he can think in that language. In a similar way you will want to think these facts into your life and work. Suggestions for study have already been given to you. I hope that you may be able to try all of the experijnents suggested; at least make a dust garden as described. If vou can get no suitable dish, a regular Petri disri may be obtained through theS chool for 30 cents and a tube of prepared nutrient gelatine ,for 20 cents. The dish may be returned. A lso, I hope that you will read some of the books recommended in the bibliography. The facts of bacteriology underlie so firmly all our daily living that there is no need to go far afield for illustrations. But a thorough knowledge of the science can be gained only through laboratory methods and with a microscope.
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