CONTENTS 



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of sections Staining principles Mordants and decolorisers 

 Formulae of stains Gram's method and its modifications 

 Stain for tubercle and other acid-fast bacilli Staining of 

 spores and flagella The Romanowsky stains Observation of 

 agglutination and sedimentation Method of measuring the 

 phagocytic capacity of the leucocytes Routine bacteriological 

 examination Methods of inoculation Autopsies on animals 85 



CHAPTER IV. 

 BACTERIA IN AIR, SOIL, AND WATER. ANTISEPTICS. 



Air : Methods of examination Results. Soil : Methods of 

 Examination Varieties of bacteria in soil. Water : Methods 

 of examination Bacteria in water Bacterial treatment of 

 sewage. Antiseptics : Methods of investigation The action 

 of antiseptics Certain particular antiseptics . . . 126 



CHAPTER V. 



RELATIONS OF BACTERIA TO DISEASE THE PRODUCTION 

 OF TOXINS BY BACTERIA. 



Introductory Conditions modifying pathogenicity Modes of 

 bacterial action Tissue changes produced by bacteria Local 

 lesions General lesions Disturbance of metabolism by 

 bacterial action The production of toxins by bacteria, and 

 the nature of these Allied vegetable and animal poisons 

 The theory of toxic action ..... 149 



CHAPTER VI. 

 INFLAMMATORY AND SUPPURATIVE CONDITIONS. 



The relations of inflammation and suppuration The bacteria of 

 inflammation and suppuration Experimental inoculation 

 Lesions in the human subject Mode of entrance and spread 

 of pyogenic bacteria Ulcerative endocarditis Acute suppur- 

 ative periostitis Erysipelas Conjunctivitis Acute rheu- 

 matism Vaccination treatment of infections by the pyogenic 

 cocci Methods of examination in inflammatory and suppur- 

 ative conditions ...... 172 



