CONTENTS. 



sections Staining principles Mordants and decolorisers For- 

 mulas of stains Gram's method and its modifications Contrast 

 stains Stain for tubercle and leprosy bacilli Staining of spores 

 and flagella Observation of agglutination and sedimentation 

 Routine bacteriological examination Methods of inoculation 

 Autopsies on animals ...... Page 93 



CHAPTER IV. ' 

 NON-PATHOGENIC MICRO-ORGANISMS FUNGI. 



Mucorinse Ascomycetas Perisporiacese Yeasts and torulse . 133 



CHAPTER V. 



RELATIONS OF BACTERIA TO DISEASE THE PRO- 

 DUCTION OF TOXINES BY BACTERIA. 



Introductory Conditions modifying pathogenicity Susceptibility and 

 resistance Modes and effects of bacterial action Tissue changes 

 produced by bacteria Local lesions General lesions The 

 production of toxines by bacteria and the nature of these 

 Allied vegetable and animal poisons The theory of toxic 

 action . . . . . . . . -139 



. CHAPTER VI. 



SUPPURATION AND ALLIED CONDITIONS. 



Nature of suppuration The bacteria of suppuration Experimental 

 inoculation Virulence of streptococcus pyogenes Suppuration 

 without bacteria Lesions in the human subject Mode of en- 

 trance and spread of pyogenic bacteria Ulcerative endocarditis 

 Acute suppurative periostitis Erysipelas Methods of examina- 

 tion for pyogenic bacteria . . . . . .163 



CHAPTER VII. 



GONORRHCEA, SOFT SORE, SYPHILIS. 



The gonococcus Microscopical characters Cultivation Relations to 

 disease Its toxine Distribution Gonococcus in joint affections 

 Methods of diagnosis Soft sore Syphilis . . .189 



