CONTENTS ix 



CHAPTER VIII. 



SECTION PAGE 



ANAEROBIC BACTERIA : SAPROPHYTIC BACTERIA 103, 106 



Anaerobic and aerobic organisms obligate and facultative anae- 

 robes recent research in anaerobic bacteria. 



Saprophytes putrefaction and decay description of the commoner 

 saprophytic bacteria principal changes that take place during 

 decomposition putrefaction of meat decomposition of milk by 

 bacteria bacterial decomposition of eggs observations on pure 

 cultures of putrefactive bacteria. 



CHAPTER IX. 

 PATHOGENIC BACTERIA 



1. INTRODUCTION - 116 



2. BACTERIAL DISEASES OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM - - - - 117 



Bacillus diphtheriae bacillus tetani cholera-spirillum bacillus 

 tuberculosis Bac. anthracis Bac. mallei Bac. influenzeae 

 micrococcus gonorrhceae Bac. leprae spirillum Obermeieri 

 Fraenkel's pneumococcus and Friedlander's pneumobacillus 

 staphylococcus pyogenes aureus. 



3. BACTERIAL DISEASES OF THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM - 127 



Mai vero canker "rot of onion" " leaf-curl" of potato-plant 

 "White Rot" of turnip plant: Pseudomonas destructans Bac. 

 solanacearum Olive tuberculosis: Bac. oleae "Black Rot" of 

 cabbage : Pseudomonas campestris Pink Bacteriosis. 



CHAPTER X. 



1. HEAT DEVELOPMENT DUE TO BACTERIAL ACTIVITY : THERMOGENIC 



AND THERMOPHILIC BACTERIA - - - - 131 



Spontaneous heating in hay, cotton-waste, and malt Bac. lupuli- 

 perda spontaneous heating of stored corn spontaneous combus- 

 tion thermogenic and thermophilic bacteria Bac. thermophilus. 



2. CHROMOGENIC BACTERIA 134 



Chromophorous, parachromophorous, and chromoparous bacteria 

 purple-bacteria bacteria producing red, yellow, blue, violet, and 

 green colouring-matters. 



3. PHOTOGENIC OR PHOSPHORESCENT BACTERIA - .... 137 



General description method of production of phosphorescence 

 physiological considerations cause of phosphorescence bacteria- 

 lamps. 



