CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Hydrophobia - 3 '4 33° 



Pasteur's Experiments— Attempts to Demonstrate Micro-organisms 

 —Hydrophobia does not arise Spontaneously — Disease not 

 Confined to Man or Canine Animals— Pasteur's Early Ex- 

 periments with Saliva Unsuccessful — Successful Experiments 

 — Symptoms of the Disease — Position in which Virulent 

 Material is Found — Different Animals Differently Affected — 

 Alteration of Virulence — Method of Preparing Inoculation 

 Material — Description of Experiments — Joseph Meister the 

 First Patient Treated — Method of Treatment now Adopted — 

 Treatment of Wolf Bites— The Time Factor in the Disease- 

 Rationale of Inoculation Method — Filtered Virus Non- 

 Virulent — Method of Inoculation — Description of Depart- 

 ments, Apparatus and Methods of Working in the Pasteur 

 Institute. 



CHAPTER XIX. 



Bacteria of the Mouth - 336-346 



The Mouth a Good Forcing Ground for Bacteria — Food Material 

 —Kinds of Bacteria found in the Mouth by Miller and Vignal 

 — Bacteria in the Teeth in Caries, in Milk Teeth, and in 

 Abscesses — Combination of Lactic Acid with Lime Salts — 

 Organisms Attack Decalcified Base Substance — Artificial 

 Decay — Mode of Invasion of Teeth by Bacteria — Poisonous 

 Saliva — Micrococcus of Sputum Septicaemia — Pneumococcus 

 — Other Organisms found in the Mouth — Septicaemia fol- 

 lowing Slight Operations in the Mouth. 



CHAPTER XX. 



The Bacteria of Colour and Phosphorescenxe - 347-355 



Colour-Forming Bacteria — Micrococcus Prodigiosus — Magenta 

 Micrococcus^Beggiotoa Roseopersicina — Bacillus of Blue 

 Milk — Sulphur Pigments — Iron Pigments — Bacillus 

 Fluorescens Putidus — Phosphorescent Bacteria — Six Species 

 — Method of Cultivation — Conditions under which they 

 produce Light. 



CHAPTER XXI. 



Poisonous Alkaloids and Albuminoids - 356-367 



Early Observations — Burrows, Kerner, Panum, &c. — Ptomaines 



Leucomaines — Brieger's Work — The Alkaloids, Poisonous 



and Non-Poisonous — General and Local Reactions — 



Structure and Composition— Sketch of Chemistry — Cholera 



