Vin CONTENTS. 



sections Staining principles Mordants and decolorisers For- 

 mulae of stains Gram's method and its modifications Contrast 

 stains Stain for tubercle and leprosy bacilli Staining of spores 

 and flagella Routine bacteriological examination Methods of 

 inoculation Autopsies on animals . . . Page 82 



CHAPTER IV. 

 NON-PATHOGENIC MICRO-ORGANISMS FUNGI. 



Mucorinae Ascomycetse Perisporiaceoe Yeasts and torulae . 117 



"CHAPTER V. 



RELATIONS OF BACTERIA TO DISEASE THE PRO- 

 DUCTION OF TOXINES BY BACTERIA. 



Introductory Conditions modifying pathogenicity Susceptibility and 

 resistance Modes of bacterial action Pathogenicity of dead 

 bacteria Tissue changes produced by bacteria Local lesions 

 General lesions Toxines produced by bacteria Part played by 

 ferments Non-proteid toxines Summary . '. .122 



CHAPTER VI. 



SUPPURATION AND ALLIED CONDITIONS. 



Nature of suppuration The bacteria of suppuration Experimental 

 inoculation Virulence of streptococcus pyogenes Suppuration 

 without bacteria Lesions in the human subject Mode of en- 

 trance and spread of pyogenic bacteria Ulcerative endocarditis- 

 Acute suppurative periostitis Erysipelas Methods of examination 

 for pyogenic bacteria . . . . . . .144 



CHAPTER VII. 



GONORRHCEA, SOFT SORE, SYPHILIS. 



The gonococcus Microscopical characters Cultivation Relations 

 Distribution Gonococcus in joint affections Methods of dia- 

 gnosis Soft sore Syphilis . . . . . .170 



