v j CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER III. 



HYPERTROPHY, HYPERPLASIA, METAPLASIA, REGENERATION, 93. Hypertrophy, hy- 

 perplasia, and metaplasia, 93. Regeneration, 94. Modes of cell division, 95. 

 General characters and limitations of cell regeneration, 98. Regeneration of special 

 tissues, 100. The impulse to cell regeneration, 106. 



CHAPTER IV. 



INFLAMMATION, 107. General considerations, 107. Types of inflammatory reaction of 

 the body to injury, 108. The healing of wounds, 117. Hyperplasia and inter- 

 stitial inflammation, 121. Special phases of inflammation, 122. Survey of the in- 

 flammatory process and its significance, 123. 



CHAPTER V. 

 ANIMAL PARASITES, 128. Protozoa, 128. Worms, 133. Arthropods, 142. 



CHAPTER VI. 



PLANT PARASITES, 143. Bacteria, morphology, physiology, and distribution, 143. 

 Classification of bacteria, 151. Methods of morphological study of bacteria, 152. 

 Artificial cultivation of bacteria, 154. Yeasts, 159. Moulds, 159. 



CHAPTER VII. 



THE RELATIONS OP MICRO-ORGANISMS TO DISEASE; INFECTION AND IMMUNITY, 162. 

 The occurrence of bacteria and other micro-organisms in the body ; Its protective 

 mechanism, 162. Action of bacteria and their products in the body, 164. Proofs 

 of infective nature of bacteria found in the body, 165. Conditions influencing the 

 occurrence of infectious diseases, 166. Infection and immunity, 167. Forms of 

 infection, 168. Communicability of infectious diseases, 169: Nature and fonns of 

 immunity, 171. Artificial immunization, 173. Antitoxic immunity, 175. Ehr- 

 lich's side-chain hypothesis, 176. Bactericidal or antibacterial immunity (bacterio- 

 lytic immunity), 181. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



THE INFECTIOUS DISEASES, 197. General considerations, 197. Suppurative and allied 

 forms of inflammation, 198. The pyogenic bacteria, 204. Erysipelas, 208. Infec- 

 tious pseudo-membranous inflammation of mucous inembranes, 209. Other bac- 

 teria which are frequent excitants of suppuration, 210. Acute lobar pneumonia 

 and other infectious diseases induced by the Micrococcus Janceolatus, 213. Gonor- 

 rlKeaand other inflammatory lesions induced by the Micrococcus gonorrh<r;e, 216. 

 Acute cerebro-spinal meningitis, 218. Glanders, 219. 'Anthrax, 221. Aetiuoiny- 

 cosis, 223. Other organisms resembling actinomyces, 224. Influenza, 225. Ty- 

 phoid fever, 227. Asiatic cholera, 238. Tuberculosis, 241. Bacteria resembling 

 the tubercle bacillus, 253. Lupus and other forms of tuberculosis of the skin, 253. 

 Bibliography of tuberculosis, 254. Lepra r 255. Syphilis, 256. Diphtheria, 259. 

 Tetanus, 263. Relapsing fever, 265. Malta fever, 265. Bubonic plague, 266. 

 Htemorrhagic septicaemia, 2"67. Hydrophobia, 269. Typhus fever, 271. Yellow 

 fever, 272. Variola, 273. Scarlet fever, 277. Measles; Whooping-cough, 278; 

 Beriberi; Acute rheumatism ; Malaria, 279. Infectious diseases of unknown origin, 

 287. The infectious diseases of animals; Bibliography of the infectious diseases, 

 288. 



CHAPTER IX. 



TUMORS, 289. The nature and characters of tumors in general, 289. The etiology of 

 tumors, 296. Classification of tumors, 303. Tumors formed by various combina- 



