XX CONTENTS 



CHAPTER II. — Immunity and Susceptibility (McCampbell) 6*4 



General, — Definition, hypersusceptibility or anaphylaxis, predisposition and non- 

 inheritance of infectious diseases. — Immunity, — Natural immunity and susceptibility 

 (racial immunity and Susceptibility, familial immunity and susceptibility, individual 

 immunity and susceptibility), factors of natural immunity (the protection afforded 

 the body b^ the surfaces, skin and cutaneous orifices, subcutaneous tissue, the ex- 

 posed mucous membranes of the body, nasal cavity, mouth, lungs, stomach, intes- 

 tines, genito-urihary tract, conjunctiva, the protective nature of inflammatory 

 processes, natural antitoxins, natural antibacterial substances, normal hemolysins, , 

 normal agglutinins, normal precipitins), acquired immunity (active immunity, pas- 

 sive immunity). — The origin and occurrence of antibodies, — Antitoxins (the mech- 

 anism of the neutralization of toxin by antitoxin, unit of antitoxin), lysins and 

 bactericidal substances (the structure of lysins, deviation of complement, the deflec- 

 tion of the complement as a test for antibodies), cytotoxins and cytolysins, opsonins 

 and phagocytosis (opsonic index, hemoopsonins), agglutinins (normal agglutinins, the 

 production of agglutinins, the distribution of agglutinins in the blood, inherited 

 agglutinins, the substances concerned in agglutination, structure of agglutinins and 

 agglutinogens, agglutinoids, the stages of agglutination, hemoagglutinins), precip- 

 itins (normal precipitins, mechanism of the forznation of precipitins, autoprecipitins 

 and isoprecipitins, the phenomena of specific inhibition, antiprecipitins, the precip- 

 itinogen, precipitate, coprecipitins, the forensic use of precipitins). — The theories of 

 immunity, — Noxious retention theory, exhaustion theory, Ehrlich's side-chain 

 theory, phagocytic theory. 



CHAPTER III. — Microbial Diseases of Man and Domestic Animals 724 



Diseases caused by molds and yeasts (various authors), — Pneumomycosis (Thorn), 

 thrush (Thorn), dermatomycoses, barbers itch, etc. (Thom), favus (Thom), actino- 

 mycosis (Reynolds), mycetoma (Fidlar), mycotic lymphangitis (Reynolds). — Dis- 

 eases caused by bacteria, — Botryomycosis (Reynolds), gonorrhoea (Fidlar), epidemic . 

 cerebro-spinal meningitis (Fidlar), infectious mastitis (Reynolds), Malta fever (Fid- 

 lar), staphylococcic infections (Fidlar) y streptococcic infections (Fidlar), pneumonia 

 (Fidlar), anthrax (Harrison), bacillary white diarrhcea of young chicks (Rettger), 

 chicken cholera (Harrison), chronic bacterial enteritis (Reynolds) j contagious abor- 

 tion (MacNeal), diphtheria (Fidlar), dysentery (Fidlar), fowl diphtheria (Harrison), 

 glanders (Reynolds), influenza (Fidlar), whooping cough, hemorrhagic septicsemia 

 (Reynolds), leprosy (Fidlar), plague (Fidlar), swine erysipelas (Dorset), tuberculosis 

 (Reynolds), foot rot of sheep (Dorset), malignant oedema (Fidlar), milk sickness 

 (Harris), symptomatic anthrax (Reynolds), tetanus (Fidlar), typhoid fever (Fidlar), 

 Asiatic cholera (Fidlar). — Diseases of unknown cause, — Scarlet fever, measles, 

 German measles. Duke's disease, smallpox, chickenpox, mumps (Hill), canine dis- 

 temper (Dorset), cattle plague (Dorset), chicken pest (Dorset), contagious bovine 

 pleuro-pneumonia (Dorset), oowpox (King), horsepox (King), sheeppox (King), 

 dengue (Dorset), foot-and-mouth disease (Dorset), hog cholera (Dorset), horse 

 sickness (Dorset), infantile paralysis (Dorset), louping-ill (Dorset), pellagra (Mac- 

 Neal), rabies (MacNeal), swamp fever (Reynolds), typhus fever (Dorset), yellow 

 fever (Dorset). — Diseases caused by protozoa (Todd, revised by Tyzzer), — Amoebic 

 dysentery, entero-hepatitis of turkeys, kala-azar, Delhi boil, sleeping sickness, human 

 trypanosomiases of South America, trypanosomiases of animals, coccidiosis of rab- 

 bits, white diarrhoea of chicks, malaria, red water. East Coast fever, Oroya fever, 

 anaplasmosis, sarcosporidia, myxosporidia, microsporidia, infusoria, African tick 

 fever, relapsing or recurrent fever, yaws, other spirochaetal diseases, syphilis. 



CHAPTER IV. — Control of Infectious Diseases (Hill) 850 



Principles — Practice — Disinfection — Carriage of infection by biological agents. 



Index of Contributors 863 



Index of Subjects . . . ..... 86s 



