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Biological reactions — Pathological changes in typhoid fever — 

 Immunisation of animals — Etiological relationships of bacillus 

 typhosus — Epidemiology of typhoid fever — Typhoid carriers 

 — Serum diagnosis of typhoid fever — Vaccination against 

 typhoid — Methods of examination — Paratyphoid fever — The 

 bacillus paratyphosus — Bacillus enteritidis (Gaertner) — The 

 psittacosis bacillus — Danysz's bacillus and rat viruses — Bacillary 

 dysentery — Summer diarrhoea — Differentiation of coli-typhoid 

 group by culture and agglutination — Varieties of B. coli — 

 Mutation in coli-typhoid bacilli .... 353 



CHAPTER XVI 



Diphtheria. 



Historical — General facts — Bacillus diphtherias — Microscopical 

 characters — Distribution — Association with other organisms 

 — Cultivation — Powers of resistance — Inoculation experiments 

 — The toxins of diphtheria — Variations in virulence of bacilli — 

 Bacilli allied to the diphtheria bacillus — Summary of patho- 

 genic action — Methods of diagnosis .... 398 



CHAPTER XVII. 



Tetanus — Other Anaerobic Bacilli. 



Introductory — Historical — Bacillus tetani — Isolation of bacillus 

 tetani — Characters of cultures — Conditions of growth — Patho- 

 genic effects — Experimental inoculation — Tetanus toxins — 

 Antitetanic serum — Methods of examination — Malignant 

 oedema — Characters of bacillus — Experimental inoculation — 

 Methods of diagnosis — Anaerobes in Infected Wounds — 

 Bacillus botulinus — Quarter - evil — Fusifokm Anaerobic 

 Bacilli 419 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Cholera. 



In roductory— The cholera spirillum— Distribution of the spirilla- 

 Cultivation — Powers of resistance— Experimental inoculation 

 — Toxins of cholera spirillum — Inoculation of human subject 

 — Immunity — Methods of diagnosis — General summary- 

 Other spirilla resembling the cholera organism— Metchnikoffs 

 spirillum— Finkler and Prior's spirillum — Deneke's spirillum . 460 



