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CHAPTER XIV 



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The Bacteriology of the Soil 249 



CitAPTER XV 

 The Bacteriology of Foods 251 



CHAPTER XVI 



The Determination of the Thermal Death-point of Bacteria. . . . 257 



CHAPTER XVII 



The Determination of the Value of Antiseptics, Germicides, and Dis- 

 infectants 259 



CHAPTER XVIII 

 Bacterio-vaccines 271 



CHAPTER XIX 

 The Phagocytic Power of the Blood and the Opsonic Index .... 278 



CHAPTER XX 

 The Wassermann Reaction for the Diagnosis of Syphilis 287 



PART II.— THE INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND THE 

 SPECIFIC MICRO-ORGANISMS 



CHAPTER I 

 Suppuration 307 



CHAPTER II 

 Malignant Edema and Gaseous Edema 3,0 



CHAPTER III 

 Tetanus , 352 



CHAPTER IV 

 Anthrax ^64 



CHAPTER V 

 Hydrophobia, Lyssa, or Rabies ,-- 



CHAPTER VI 

 Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis _-, 



