Excerpt from School of Public Health of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Catalog 1918-19The purpose of this course is to give training in the fundamentals of laboratory methods, both bacteriological and chemical. 'as an ele mentary course it prepares the student for his later work. The work includes a critical review, the use of the chemical balance, the prepara tion and standardization of reagents, quantitative analysis, the use of the microscope, the preparation of culture media, the use of incubators, the equipment of laboratories and the elements of general bacteriology.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.