CONTENTS 



PAGB 



ative periostitis — Erysipelas — Conjunctivitis — Acute rheu- 

 matism — Vaccination treatment of infections by the pyogenic 

 cocci — Methods of examination in inflammatory and suppur- 

 ative conditions ....... 197 



CHAPTER VIII. - 



Inflammatory and Suppue ative Conditions, continued : 

 The Acute Pneumonias, Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal 

 Meningitis. 



Introductory — Historical — Fraenkel's pneumococcus — Expei imental 

 inoculation — Strains of pneumococcus — Pathology of pneumonia 

 — Methods of examination — Friedlander's pneumobacillus. 

 Epidemic Ceeebro-Spinal Meningitis — Serum reactions — 

 Allied diplococci ....... 225 



CHAPTER IX. 



Gonorrhoea and Soft Sore. 



The gonococcus — Microscopical characters — Cultivation — Com- 

 parison with -meningococcus — Relations to the disease — Its 

 toxin — Distribution — Gonococcus in joint affections — Methods 

 of diagnosis. Soft Soke : Microscopical characters and culti- 

 vation of bacillus . . . . . .255 



CHAPTER X. 



Tuberculosis. 



Historical — Tuberculosis in animals — Tubercle bacillus — Staining 

 reactions— Cultivation of tubercle bacillus — Powers of resist- 

 ance—Action on the tissues — Histology of tuberculous nodules 

 — Distribution of bacilli — Bacilli in tuberculous discharges — 

 Experimental inoculation — Varieties of tuberculosis — Other 

 acid-fast bacilli— Action of dead tubercle bacilli— Sources of 

 human tuberculosis — Specific reactions of the tubercle bacillus 

 —Tuberculins — Phenomena of supersensitiveness — Tuberculin 

 reactions — Toxins of the tubercle bacillus — Immunity 

 phenomena in tuberculosis— Therapeutic application of the 

 tuberculins — Active immunisation associated with opsonic 

 observations— Antitubercular sera — Methods of examination . 266 



