Bacteria in Daily Life: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Bacteria in Daily Life, credited to Grace Coleridge Frankland, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Bacteria in Daily Life by Grace Coleridge Frankland. Read by J. M. Smallheer The author provides a fascinating look at the emerging science of bacteriology at the start of the twentieth century including early progress in understanding and preventing diseases such as tuberculosis and diphtheria. The book also includes chapters on the spread of disease through close contact with infected persons as well as from contaminated drinking water and milk. Water purification methods as well as the stability of various disease-causing organisms to extremes of heat and cold is discussed. The final chapter includes a fascinating discussion on the development of anti-venoms for the treatment of snake bite and related poisons. (summary by J. M. Smallheer)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Bacteria in Daily Life
• Author credits: Grace Coleridge Frankland
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 12
• Listed recording duration: 4:46:11

Catalogue topics

• science
• tuberculosis
• Pasteur
• microbiology
• bacteriology
• bacteria
• microorganisms
• diptheria

Track guide

1. 01 - Bacteriology in the Victorian Era — 25:05
2. 02 - Bacteriology in the Victorian Era, con't. — 18:54
3. 03 - What We Breathe — 24:34
4. 04 - What We Breathe, con't. — 16:18
5. 05 - Sunshine and Life — 23:07
6. 06 - Sunshine and Life, con't. — 12:04
7. 07 - Bacteriology and Water — 32:37
8. 08 - Milk Dangers and Remedies — 22:53
9. 09 - Milk Dangers and Remedies, con't. — 20:22
10. 10 - Bacteria and Ice — 24:47
11. 11 - Some Poisons and Their Prevention — 29:22
12. 12 - Some Poisons and Their Prevention, con't. — 36:12

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