CONTENTS 



CHAPTER IV. 



Examination op Sebum — Preparation of Vaccines — 

 General Bacteriological Diagnosis — Inoculation 

 of Animals. 



PAOB 



Observation of agglutination and sedimentation — Opsonic methods 

 — Method of measuring the phagocytic capacity of the leuco-. 

 cytes — Bactericidal methods — Haemolytic tests — Fixation and 

 deviation of complement — Wassermann reaction — Preparation 

 of vaccines — Methods of counting bacteria in dead cultures — 

 General bacteriological diagnosis — Inoculation of animals — 

 Autopsies on animals . . . . . 115 



CHAPTER V. 



Bacteria in Air, Soil, Water, Milk — Antiseptics. 



Aik : Methods of examination! Soil : Methods of examination — 

 Varieties of bacteria in soil. Water : Methods of examination 

 — Bacteria in water — Bacteriology of sewage. Milk : Souring 

 of milk — Pathogenic organisms in milk — Sterilisation of milk. 

 Antiseptics : Methods of investigation — The action of anti- 

 septics — Certain particular antiseptics .... 143 



CHAPTER VI. 



Relations of Bacteria to Disease — The Production 

 of Toxins by Bacteria. 



Introductory — Conditions modifying pathogenicity — Carriers — 

 Modes of bacterial action — Tissue changes produced by bacteria 

 — Local lesions — General lesions — Disturbances of metabolism 

 by bacterial action — The production of toxins by bacteria, and 

 the nature of these — Allied vegetable and animal poisons — 

 The theory of toxic action . . . .174 



CHAPTER VII. 



Inflammatory and Suppurative Conditions. 



The relations of inflammation and suppuration — The bacteria of 

 inflammation and suppuration — Experimental inoculation — 

 Lesions in the human subject — Mode of entrance and spread 

 of pyogenic bacteria — Ulcerative endocarditis — Acute s.uppur- 



