RT Journal
T1 BActeria, the smallest of living things
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD November 11
VO 113
IS 20
SP 1815
OP 1816
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800450037014
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800450037014
AB The famous paper of the plant physiologist Ferdinand Cohn entitled "Bacteria, the Smallest of Living Things" introduced scientific bacteriology; it was first published in Berlin, Germany, in 1872 and has just been issued in an English translation in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine and as a separate reprint.1 Morris C. Leikind has added an informative and interesting preface. The paper was translated in 1881 by Charles S. Dolley, who, by the way, spent several years as a student in Europe, at the university in Leipzig and at the zoological station in Naples. Dolley, while yet a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania, read Cohn's paper in the original German. Recognizing at once its importance for the entire field of biology and bacteriology, he published the translation which is the basis of this new edition.Cohn's systematic investigations of the life of the microbe world began in