XIV CONTENTS 



MICKO-ORGANISMS IN SOME PLANT DISEASES. 



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Organisms causing disintegration of tissues — Diseases of the 

 potato, tomato, etc.—' Brown rot ' — Organisms causLog rotting 

 of fruit - - - - 278-808 



CHAPTEB XI. 

 MICKO-OBGANISMS OTHER THAN BACTERIA— FERMENTATION, Etc. 



The yeasts, moulds, and algse : their method of growth, olassifica* 

 tion, mode of occurrence, chief species, etc. — The examination 

 of yeasts — Fermentation and ferments— Fermentation by 

 yeasts— High and low fermentation— Fermentation by moulds 

 and bacteria — The acetic fermentation of alcohol, the ammo- 

 niacal fermentation of urea, the lactic and butyric acid ferments 

 — Mixed fermentations — The unorganised ferments, or enzymes 

 — The proteolytic, amylolytio, inversive and ooagulative enr 

 zymes of bacterial origin — Putrefaction and oxidation — Action 

 of water filter-beds — Nitrification of ammonia — Fixation of 

 atmospheric nitrogen — 'Nitragiu' — Chromogenio bacteria and 

 colouring matters — The colouring matter of Bacillus cyamo- 

 genus, Bacillus prodigiosus, Bacillus pyocyaneus, etc. — Phos- 

 phorescent bacteria — Other products of the metabohsm of 

 n:iicro-organisme — Bacteriology of sewage - 309-356 



CHAPTEE XII. 



DISINFECTION AND DISINFECTANTS. 



Methods of disinfection of the body, discharges, clothes, home, 

 hangings, bed-Unen, etc. — Disinfection by sulphur and chlorine 

 — Disinfection by formalin vapour — Equifex spray disinfection 

 — Disinfection by heat — Disinfection by steam — Steam dis- 

 infectors — Construction of steam disinfectors — Lyon's dis- 

 infector — Bquifex disinfector — Equifex low-pressure disinfector 

 — Thresh's disinfector — Beck's disinfector — Testing of steam 

 disinfectors — Disinfectants — Bacteriological testing of dis- 

 infectants - - - - 357-382 



CHAPTEE XIII. 



BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION OF WATER, FILTERS, MILK 

 AIR, SOIL, Etc. 



The bacteriological examination of water — The nature and 



• number of the organisms found in water — Determination of 



the number of micro-organisms in water — Regulations of 



Imperial German Health Department — Examination for 



