CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I, 



PAGE 



INTRODUCTION - - 1-23 



Growth of Subject Place of Bacteria in Nature Pure Cultures 

 Morphology Physiology Protoplasm governed by same 

 laws whether in higher or lower Plants or Animals Relation 

 of Bacteria to everyday Processes Fermentations, Butyric, 

 Lactic, Colour, c. Brewing Baking Kephir making 

 Flax preparation Digestion Putrefaction Nitrification, 

 Mineralization Relation of Bacteria to Water Supply Fil- 

 tration Sewage Modes of Transference of Pathogenic Bac- 

 teria from Patient to Patient, or from Water or Earth to 

 Patient. 



CHAPTER II. 



WHAT ARE BACTERIA? - - 24-48 



Structure Myco-protein Limiting Membrane Gelatinous 

 Capsule Special Cell Contents Oxide of Iron Sulphur 

 Colouring Material Flagella Modes of Multiplication and 

 Development Division Rate of Vegetative Multiplication 

 Endospores Arthrospores Classifications of Cohn, Van 

 Tieghem, Zopf, Winter and Rabenhorst, De Bary and 

 Hueppe, Fliigge, Baumgarten, &c. 



CHAPTER III. 



THE HISTORY OF BACTERIOLOGY . 49-74 



Earliest Workers Kircher's Contagium Animatum Bacteria in ^ 

 Fermentation, Putrefaction, and Disease Early Classifica- 

 tions Miiller Abiogenesis Needham Biogenesis 

 Bonnet Spallanzani Schultz's Experiments Schwann 

 Later Experiments Pasteur Bastian Colour and Fer- 

 mentation Cohn and Naegeli's Classification Henle's 

 Researches and Postulates Pasteur's Researches on Fer- 



