CONTENTS. xi 



APPLICATION OF THE METHODS OF 

 BACTERIOLOGY. DESCRIPTIONS 

 OF SOME OF THE MORE IM- 

 PORTANT SPECIES. 



CHAPTER XIV. 



PAGE 



To obtain material with which to begin worlc . . 235-238 



CHAPTEE XV 

 Various experiments in sterilization by steam and by hot air . 239-243 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Suppuration — Staphylococcus pyogenes aureus — Staphylococcus pyo- 

 genes albus and cUreus — Streptococcus pyogenes -GonococQ'a^ — Bacillus 

 pyoeya7ieus~B&cil\us of Bubonic Plague . . 244-276 



CHAPTEE XVII. 



Sputum septicaemia — Septicaemia resulting from the presence of 

 micrococcus telragenus in the tissues . 277-288 



CHAPTEE XVIII. 



Tuberculosis — Microscopic appearance of miliary tubercles— En- 

 capsulation of tuberculous foci — Diffuse caseation — Cavity-forma- 

 tion — Primary infection — Modes of infection — Location of the bacilli 

 in the tissues — Staining-peculiarities — Organisms with which bacillus 

 tuberculosis may be confounded — Points of differentiation — Bacillus 

 of influenza ... . 289-314 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Glanders — Characteristics of the disease — Histological structure of 

 the glanders nodule— Susceptibility of different animals to glanders 

 — The bacillus of glanders ; its morphological and cultural peculiari- 

 ties — Diagnosis of glanders . . . . 315-324 



CHAPTEE XX. 



Bacillus diphtheriee— Its isolation and cultivation— Morphological 

 and cultural peculiarities— Pathogenic properties— Variations in 

 virulence . . 325-341 



CHAPTEE XXI. 



Typhoid fever — Study of the organism concerned in its produc- 

 tion— Bartmum coli commune— Its resemblance to the bacillus of 

 typhoid fever— Its morphological, cultural, and pathogenic prop- 

 erties—Its differentiation from bacUlus typhi abdominaiis . . 342-364 



