TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER PAGE 



I. THE STRUCTURE OF BACTERIA i 



- - II. THE VITAL PHENOMENA OF BACTERIA 50 



Anaerobiosis ; Relations to Energy 50 



Light and Temperature ; Sterilization 61 



Disinfection ; Effect of Poisons 71 



Chemistry of the Nutrient Substratum. 91 



Active Proteids ; Ptomains ; Leucomains 1 18 



Effect of Bacteria Upon the Substratum 125 



Practical Applications 132 



Cycles of Activity and Adaptation 138 



III. BRIEF DESCRIPTIONS OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PA- 



THOGENIC BACTERIA 146 



IV. THE CAUSE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE 220 



Causes and Their Identity and Equivalence With Effects. 230 



Resistances and External Conditions 232 



The Liberation of Energy 234 



Atomic Combinations and Resistances 237 



Predisposition to Disease: Acquired and Inherited 242 



Disease-Stimuli 251 



Infection and Contagion 272 



V. CAN DISEASE BE CURED BY COMBATING THE CAUSE? 275 



VI. IMMUNITY; PROTECTIVE- INOCULATION ; CURATIVE IN- 

 OCULATION 295 



Isopathic or Specific Inoculation With Living Parasites ; 



Attenuation of Disease-Producing Bacteria 300 



Inoculation With Metabolic Products ; Protective Sub- 

 stances and Poisons; Immunity Does Not Depend 



Upon Habituation to Poison ... 305 



Proteids 312 



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