Physical description

Illustrated leather bound textbook.Marroon cover, title author publisher's logo and name stamped in gilt on spine. Publisher's logo embossed in centre of front cover

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

At the base of front end page there is a printed black and white donation sticker: black Maltese cross in circle, 'This book was donated to Alfred Archival Association Nursing Division by' BISTRA ATANASOVA [handwritten black ink] Previous catalogue number is also handwritten on this sticker [black ink] A previous owner has written their name on the pre title page :' John Robertson/ "Ythan"/ Epsom Rd/ Kensington

Summary

Vintage text covering groundbreaking resarch linking specific microbes to diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera and anthrax