XX11 CONTENTS 



CHAPTER II. IMMUNITY AND SUSCEPTIBILITY (McCampbell) 684 



General, Definition, hypersusceptibility or anaphylaxis, predisposition and non- 

 inheritance of infectious diseases. Immunity, Natural immunity and susceptibility 

 (racial immunity and susceptibility, familial immunity and susceptibility, individual 

 immunity and susceptibility), factors of natural immunity (the protection afforded 

 the body by the surfaces, skin and cutaneous orifices, subcutaneous tissue, the ex- 

 posed mucous membranes of the body, nasal cavity, mouth, lungs, stomach, intes- 

 tines, genito-urinary tract, conjunctiva, the protective nature of inflammatory 

 processes, natural antitoxins, natural antibacterial substances, normal hemolysins, 

 normal agglutinins, normal precipitins) , acquired immunity (active immunity, pas- 

 sive immunity). The origin and occurrence of antibodies, Antitoxins (the mech- 

 anism of the neutralization of toxin by antitoxin, units of antitoxin), lysins and 

 bactericidal substances (the structure of lysins, deviation of complement, the deflec- 

 tion of the complement as a test for antibodies), cytotoxins and cytolysins, opsonins 

 and phagocytosis (opsonic index, hemoopsonins), agglutinins (normal agglutinins. the 

 production of agglutinins, the distribution of agglutinins in the blood, inherited 

 agglutinins, the substances concerned in agglutination, structure of agglutinins and 

 agglutinogens, agglutinoids, the stages of agglutination, hemoagglutinins), precip- 

 itins (normal precipitins, mechanism of the formation of precipitins, autoprecipitins 

 and isoprecipitins, the phenomena of specific inhibition, antiprecipitins, the precip- 

 itinogen, precipitate, coprecipitins, the forensic use of precipitins). The theories of 

 immunity, Noxious retention theory, exhaustion theory, Ehrlich's side-chain 

 theory, phagocytic theory. 



CHAPTER III. MANUFACTURE OF VACCINES (King) 724 



Introduction. Actively immunizing substances (vaccines), Attenuated viruses, 

 smallpox vaccine, blackleg vaccine, blackleg aggressin, blackleg filtrate, rabies 

 vaccine, Dorset-Niles hog cholera serum, anthrax vaccine, tuberculosis vaccine. 

 Bacterial vaccines (bacterins), Typhoid fever, pneumonia, influenza-pneumonia, 

 canine distemper, Asiatic cholera, bubonic plague. Sensitized vaccine. Toxin- 

 antitoxin mixture. 



CHAPTER IV. THE MANUFACTURE OF ANTISERA AND OTHER BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS 



RELATED TO SPECIFIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES (King). . . 740 



Antitoxic sera, Diphtheria antitoxin, tetanus antitoxin, perfringens antitoxin. 

 Antimicrobial sera, Antimeningococcic, antistreptococcic, ' antigonococcic, anti- 

 pneumococcic, Dorset-Niles (antihog cholera), antirabic, antidysenteric, preserva- 

 tion of antisera. Tuberculins, Koch's old, other tuberculins. Mallein. Suspen- 

 sions for the agglutination tests. Substances used for diagnostic tests, Luetin, 

 antigens, Schick test. 



CHAPTER V. CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES (Hill) '754 



Principles. Practice. Public health methods as revised and promulgated by the 

 Institute of Public Health, London, Canada, Householder's responsibility to 

 board of health, physician's responsibility to board of health, penalties, definitions, 

 rules for release of cases from isolation, placarding of house, quarantine periods for 

 contacts, observation versus quarantine, regulations regarding visitors, in case of 

 death. Disinfection. Carriage of infection by biological agents. 



CHAPTER VI. MICROBIAL DISEASES OF MAN AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS (various authors) 775 

 Diseases caused by molds and yeasts, Pneumomycosis, aspergillosis, secondary 

 infections (Thorn), thrush (Thorn), dermatomycoses, barber's itch, etc. (Thom), 

 favus (Thom), actinomycosis (Reynolds), mycetoma (Fidlar), mycotic lymphangitis 

 (Reynolds). Diseases caused by bacteria, Botryomycosis (Reynolds), gonor- 

 rhcea (Fidlar) , epidemic cerebro-spinal menirfgitis (Fidlar) , infectious mastitis (Rey- 

 nolds), Malta fever (Fidlar), staphylococcic infections (Fidlar), streptococcic 

 infections (Fidlar), pneumonia (Fidlar), anthrax (Harrison), bacillary white diar- 

 rhaea of young chicks (Rettger), chicken cholera (Harrison), chronic bacterial en- 

 teritis (Reynolds), 'contagious abortion (MacNeal), diphtheria (Fidlar), dysentery 



