New Series of Original Works on Vital Phenomena, and on 



Minute Structure ; treating of subjects of importance to the Progress of 

 Physiology and Medicine, technical terms being as much as possible avoided. 

 OF THIS SERIES THE FOLLOWING ARE ALREADY PUBLISHED, OR IN 



A VERY FORWARD STATE : 

 Third Edition, much enlarged. Coloured Plates. 



I. PROTOPLASM : OR LIFE MATTER. 



With Original Observations on Minute Structure, and numerous New 

 Coloured Drawings. (Nearly ready. 



Second Edition, much enlarged, 28 Plates (many coloured], 12s. 6d. 



II. DISEASE GERMS: AND ON THE TREATMENT OF 



DISEASES CAUSED BY THEM. 



With observations on the value of Alcohol in Fever. 



PART I. SUPPOSED NATURE OF DISEASE GERMS. 



Of a Germ. Dust and Disease. 



Germs in the Air. Spontaneous Generation. 



Germs in the Tissues. 

 Germs in Disease. 



PART II. REAL NATURE OF DISEASE GERMS. 



Bioplasm and its Degradatipn. Entrance of Disease Germs. 



Disease Germs in fluids and secretions. Escape from infected organism. 



Nature and Origin of the Contagious Disease Germs. 



PART III. THE DESTRUCTION OF DISEASE GERMS. 



Disinfectants. 

 Lister's Views. 

 Influence of Bacteria. 



Destruction of Germs in the body. 

 Use of the Sulpho-Carbolates. 

 Fever Germs. 



Principles of Treatment. 

 The Febrile State. 

 Action of Stimulants. 



Four Plates, 3^. 6d. (Now ready. 



III. DISEASE GERMS. THEIR SUPPpSED NATURE. 



A few copies of the first part of the above work remain, & can be had separately. 



IV. THE MYSTERY OF LIFE: an Essay in reply to 



Dr, GULL'S ATTACK ON THE THEORY OF 

 VITALITY. 



3.y. 6d. Two coloured Plates. (Now ready. 



V. LIFE THEORIES AND RELIGIOUS THOUGHT. 



W T ith Six Coloured Plates, illustrating the Arrangement of Living 

 Matter in the Tissues of Living Beings. $s. 6d. (A r ow ready. 



TEXT BOOKS FOR STUDENTS. 



I. AN INTRODUCTION TO PHYSIOLOGY AND MEDI- 



CINE. BIOPLASM: OR THE LIVING MATTER OF 

 THE TISSUES. (Just ready. 



II. DISEASE : WITH OBSERVATIONS ON ITS NATURE 



AND TREATMENT. 



With new Researches on Inflammation and Fever. Numerous 

 coloured Plates. Being the Third Course of Lectures delivered at 

 Oxford by direction of the Radcliffe Trustees. (Preparing. 



III. ON DEMONSTRATING THE BIOPLASM OR LIVING 



MATTER OF LIVING BEINGS. 



With full directions for preparing Specimens and preserving them. 



(Preparing. 



LONDON : J. AND A. CHURCHILL. 

 PHILADELPHIA: LINDSAY AND BLAKISTON. April, 1872. 



1IAR1 1SON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY, Sf. MARTIN'S LANE. 



