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THIS book forms a valuable summary of our knowledge of many of the bacterial infections of the digestive tract, and of the conditions resulting therefrom— valuable alike to the bacteriologist, the chemist, and the clinician. It commences with a review of the normal bacterial flora of the digestive tract, and the significance of the presence of bacteria is first discussed. It is shown that the intestinal bacteria are not required to carry on the ordinary digestive processes and normal nutrition, and the conclusion is formulated that the chief significance of the obligatory intestinal bacteria lies in their potential capacity for checking the development of other types of organisms capable of doing injury.
The Common Bacterial Infections of the Digestive Tract and the Intoxications arising from Them.
By Prof. C. A. Herter. Pp. xii + 360. (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1907.) Price 6s. 6d. net.
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HEWLETT, R. The Common Bacterial Infections of the Digestive Tract and the Intoxications arising from Them . Nature 78, 100 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/078100a0
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