x CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XX. 



Glanders Characteristics of the disease Histological 

 structure of the glanders nodule Susceptibility of dif- 

 ferent animals to glanders The bacterium of glanders; 

 its morphological and cultural peculiarities Diagnosis 

 of glanders 377-386 



CHAPTER XXL 



Bacterium diphtherias Its isolation and cultivationMor- 

 phological and cultural peculiarities Pathogenic prop- 

 ertiesVariations in virulence Bacterium pseudodiph- 

 theriticum Bacterium xerosis Diphtheria antitoxin . 387-413 



CHAPTER XXII. 



Typhoid fever Study of the organism concerned in its 

 production Methods of isolating the typhoid bacillus 

 Bacillus coli Its resemblance to the bacillus of ty- 

 phoid fever Its morphological, cultural, and patho- 

 genic properties Its differentiation from bacillus 

 typhosus Bacillus paratyphosis Its resemblance to 

 bacillus typhosus Its morphological, cultural, and 

 pathogenic properties 414-448 



CHAPTER XXIII. 



Bacillus dysenterise The group of bacilli found in cases 

 of epidemic, endemic, and sporadic dysentery The 

 morphological, biological, and pathogenic characters 

 of the several members of the group The differentia- 

 tion of the different types of bacilli 449-456 



CHAPTER XXIV. 



The Cholera Group of Organisms The spirillum (comma 

 bacillus) of Asiatic cholera Its morphological and cul- 

 tural peculiarities Pathogenic properties The bacte- 

 riological diagnosis of Asiatic cholera Microspira 

 Metchnikovi Microspira ("vibrio") Schuylkilliensis 

 Its morphological, cultural, and pathogenic characters. 457-489 



CHAPTER XXV. 



Study of bacterium anthracis, and the effects produced 

 by its inoculation into animals Peculiarities of the or- 

 ganism under varying conditions of surroundings 

 Anthrax vaccines Anthrax immune serum 490-506 



