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VII. Typhoid fever and typhus ... ... ... 191 



VIII. The microbe of cholera ... ... ... ... 195 



IX. Eruptive fevers : scarlatina, small-pox, measles, etc. 209 



X. The microbes of croup and whooping-cough ... ... 215 



XI. The microbes of phthisis and leprosy 



XII. The microbe of pneumonia ... ... ... ... 229 



XIII. Some other diseases due to microbes ... ... 230 



X IT. The microbe of erysipelas ... ... ... ... 232 



XV. The microbes of pus, septicemia, etc. ... ... 2.-J4 



XVI. The microbes of other diseases, clue to wounds ... 236 



XVII. The mode of action of pathogenic microbes : ptomaines 237 



CHAPTER VI. 



PROTECTION AGAINST MICROBES ... ... ... ... 242 



I. Antiseptic treatment of wounds: Gue'rin's protective treat- 

 ment; Lister's dressing ... ... ... ... 242 



II. Hygiene of drinking- water : water fiee iroin microbes; 



Cumberland filter ... ... ... ... ... 245 



CHAPTER VII. 



LABORATORY RESEARCH, AND CULTURE OK MIOUOBES ... 258 



CHAPTER VIII. 



POLYMORPHISM OF MICROBES ... ... ... ... 272 



CHAPTER IX. 



CONCLUSION ... ... ... ... ... ... 285 



The Miorobian T. c-ory compared with other Theories set forth to 



explan the Origin of Contagious Diseases ... ... 285 



APPENDIX. 



A. Terminology of Microbes ... ... ... ... 301 



B. Micrococcus of phosphorescence ... ... ... 304. 



C. Diseases of plants caused by bacteria ... ... ... 305 



D. Ptomaine of the microbe of fowl cholera ... ... 306 



K. Cesspools. System of conveying everything to the sewers 306 



F. Sewers of Paris and the Plain of Gennevilliers ... 3()7 



G. Useful microbes ... ... ... ... ( 30g 



H. Ptomaines of fish .., ... ... 308 



