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The plates offer microphotographs of various pathogenic micro-organisms including among others: staphylococcus, streptococcus, plague, anthrax, tuberculosis, leprosy, colibacillus, cholera... up to malaria.
The set is mounted on tabs and covered with the publisher's gray canvas cardboard. - Slight traces of dirt on the dishes. Clean interior. Very good state.
Book published by Fournier Laboratories for the use of scientists: "It is to the practitioner that we dedicate this work extracted from the collections of our bacteriology laboratory. He will put before his eyes the image of his daily adversaries and will be able, we believe- us, be useful to him to enable him to unmask and combat them.”
[Collective]
Atlas of Bacteriology
Paris, Laboratoires Fournier, undated [c. 1910]
in-4 oblong (16 x 26 cm); 24 pl.
Subject: Superb Atlas 24 Plates Bacteria Microbes Cholera Malaria Microbiology Fournier Laboratories XXth 67583167