32 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [Feb 
The Cultivation of Anaerobic Bacteria ; Experimentation 
upon Animals ; The Recognition of Bacteria; Bacteriolog- 
ic Examination of the Air; Bacteriologic Examination 
of Water ; Bacteriologic Examination of Soil. 
Part II Considers Specific Diseases and Their Bacteria. 
This division includes The Phlogistic Diseases, both acute 
and chronic; The Toxemias ; The Bacteremias ; Miscella- 
neous diseases which are not included in the foregoing 
classifications. The Acute Inflammatory Diseases of Sup- 
puration, Gonorrhoea, Mumps, Cerebro-spinal Meningi- 
tis and Pneumonia are ably handled and the chapters de- 
voted to Tuberculosis, Leprosy, Glanders, Syphilis, Actin- 
omycosis, Mycetoma, Farcin du Boeuf and Rhino-scler- 
oma are of especial interest. The Toxemias of Tetanus, 
Hydrophobia, Diphtheria and Cholera, are brilliantly 
treated and lead to special articles upon Anthrax, Ty- 
phoid Fever, Yellow Fever, Chicken-cholera, Hog-cholera, 
Swine-Plague, Typhus Murium, Mouse-Septicemia, Re- 
lapsing Fever, Bubonic Plague, Tetragenus, Influenza, 
Measles and*Malta Fever, which are calculated to show 
the education, research and experience of the author. The 
 Gllustrations are admirably executed and the text excel- 
lent, two qualities, which when combined with scholarly 
classification, tend to produce a volume, of which the pub- 
lisher may justly feel proud. We are pleased to quote at 
length from the article on Bubonic Plague ; which disease 
is caused by the Bacillus Pestis Bubonicae. 
Plague, malignant poly-adenitis, is an acute febrile dis- 
ease of an intensely fatal nature, characterized by inflam- 
mation of the lymphatic glands, marked cerebral and vas- 
cular disturbance, and the presence of the specific bacil- 
lus in the lymphaticglandsand blood. The bubonic plague 
is an extremely fatal disease, whose ravages in the hos- 
pital in which Yersin made his observation, carried off 
95 per cent of the cases. The death-rate varies in different 
epidemics from 50-90 per cent. In the epidemic at Hong 
