CONTENTS. 



PART THE SECOND. 



ON THE CHEMICAL PROCESSES OF FERMENTATION, DECAY, AND 

 PUTREFACTION. 



CHAPTER PA.OK 



I. — Chemical Transformations ------- 265 



II.— On the Causes which effect Fermentation, Decay, and Putre- 

 faction 26S 



III. — Fermentation and Putrefaction ------ 275 



IV. — On the Transformation of Bodies which do not contain Nitro- 

 gen as a Constituent, and of those in which it is present - 290 

 On the Transformation of Bodies containing Nitrogen - 2S2 



V. — Fermentation of Sugar - 2S7 



Yeast or Ferment -------- 2S9 



VI. — Eremacausis, or Decay ------- 295 



VII. — Eremacausis, or Decay of Bodies destitute of Nitrogen : 



Formation of Acetic Acid ------ 302 



VIII. — Eremacausis of Substances containing Nitrogen. — Nitrifi- 

 cation ---------- 307 



IX. — On Vinous Fermentation : — Wine and Beer - - - 311 

 X. — On Fermentation ascribed to the Growth of Fungi and of 



Infusoria 328 



XL— Decay of Woody Fibre - - 338 



XII.— Vegetable Mould 314 



XIII.— On the Mouldering of Bodies : — Paper, Brown Coal, and Mine- 

 ral Coal 340 



XIV. — On Poisons, Contagions, and Miasns 354 



Appendix to Part II. - - - - - - - - -391 



Index 393 



