xn CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER V. 

 Fungi: Non-pathogenic and Pathogenic. 



PAGB 



Mucorinse — Ascomycetas — • Perisporiace£e — • Yeasts and torulse — Blastomycetic 



dermatitis — Morphology — Cultural characters ..... 148 



CHAPTER VI. 



Relations of Bacteria to Disease — The Production of 

 Toxins by Bacteria. 



Introductory — Conditions modifying pathogenicity — Modes of bacterial action 



— Tissue changes produced by bacteria — Local lesions — General lesions 



— Disturbance 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 . ' 157 



CHAPTER VII. 



Inflammatory and Suppurative Conditions. 



The relations of inflammation and suppuration — -The bacteria of inflammation 

 and suppuration — Results of experimental inoculation — Lesions in the 

 human subject — Mode of entrance and spread of pyogenic bacteria — 

 Ulcerative endocarditis — Acute suppurative periostitis — Erysipelas — 

 Meningitis — Conjunctivitis — Acute rheumatism — Methods of examina- 

 tion in inflammatory and suppurative conditions . . . . ,180 



CHAPTER VIII. 



Inflammatory and Suppurative Conditions, Continued.- 

 The Acute Pneumonias. • 



Introductory — Historical — Bacteria in pneumonia- — Fraenkel's Pneumococ- 

 cus- — ^ Friedlander's pneumobacillus — ^Distribution of pneumobacteria — 

 Experimental inoculation — Etiological relations to pneumonia — The 

 toxins of the pneumococcus — Immunisation against pneumococcus — 

 Methods of examination 205 



CHAPTER IX. 



Gonorrhoea, Soft Sore, Syphilis. 



The gonococcus — Microscopical characters — Cultivation — Relations to 

 disease — Its torfn — Distribution — Gonococcus in joint affections — 

 Methods of diagnosis — Soft sore — Syphilis 223 



CHAPTER X. 



Tuberculosis. 



Historical — Tuberculosis in animals — The tubercle bacillus — Staining reac- 

 tions — Cultivation of tubercle bacillus — Powers of resistance — Action 

 on the tissues — Histology of tuberculous nodules — Distribution of bacilli 



