X CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER VII. 



PACK 



THE GERMICIDAL PROTEIDS OF THE BLOOD . . . ]. r >^ 



CHAPTER VIII. 



METHODS OF EXTRACTING PTOMAINES. Basic Impurities in 

 Reagents. The Stas-Otto Method, Dragendorff's Method, 

 Brieger's Method, The Methods of Gautier and Etard. 

 Remarks upon the Methods 157 



CHAPTER IX. 

 METHODS OF ISOLATING THE BACTERIAL PROTEIDS . . 171 



CHAPTER X. 



THE IMPORTANCE OF PTOMAINES TO THE TOXICOLOGIST. 

 Coniine-like Substances, Nicotine, Strychnine, Mor- 

 phine, Atropine, Digitaline, Veratrine, Delphinine, Col- 

 chicine. Effect of Ptomaines on Alkaloidal Reactions' . 174 



CHAPTER XI. 



CHEMISTRY OF THE PTOMAINES: Primary Amines, Dia- 

 mines, etc., the Choline Group, other Oxygen-containing 

 Bases, Undetermined Ptomaines. Tables . . . 187 



CHAPTER XII. 



CHEMISTRY OF THE LEUCOMAINES : Uric Acid Group, 



Creatiniue Group, Undetermined Leucomaines. Tables 280 



CHAPTER XIII. 

 THE AUTOGENOUS DISEASES 352 



CHAPTER XIV. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY : Ptomaines, Leucomaiues, Bacterial Pro- 



teids, Miscellaneous 364 



