Evelyn L. Oginsky, Wayne W. Umbreit: An Introduction to Bacterial Physiology

"Because we feel that bacterial physiology is the basis of bacteriology, we have designed this textbook for a course at the undergraduate level––perhaps immediately following the course in general bacteriology, perhaps postponed until the senior year. The principles of bacterial physiology are surely not so difficult that they can be understood only by the graduate student We have set the level of this textbook to bridge the gap between general bacteriology and graduate studies in bacterial physiology, and to point out, wherever feasible, findings that have contributed to developments in other fields of bacteriology.
Readers of the first edition of this book will find many changes in this second edition. These changes are as minor as the use of a different adjective or the addition of a short paragraph and as extensive as the reorientation and rewriting of an entire chapter. It is the great advance of bacterial physiology during the past five years that has imposed these changes. However, the fundamental concepts established in the first edition are still as true and as valid today as they were five years ago, thus permitting integration of new material without undue dissonance.
One of the effects of writing this book was to reawaken in its authors the realization of the pleasure in communicating ideas on the fundamental problems of bacterial cell physiology. Since the publication of the first edition, we have both returned to teaching-impelled, perhaps, to heed the parable of the Good Samaritan: "Go, and do thou likewise" (Luke 10:37)."

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