XU CONTENTS 



OTHER PATHOGENIC ORGANISMS. 



PAOE 



Other diseases of bacterial origin— Microsporon furfur— Thrush — 

 Favus (Achorion Schonlemii) — Tricophyton tonsurans, etc. 221-233 



CHAPTER XI. 

 MIOKO-OEGANISMS OTHER THAN BACTERIA— FERMENTATION, etc. 



The yeasts, moulds, algae and protozoa : their method of growth, 

 classiiioation, mode of occurrence, chief species, etc. — The 

 examination of yeasts — Fermentation and ferments — Fermen- 

 tation by yeasts — High and low fermentation — Fermentation 

 by moulds and bacteria — The acetic fermentation of alcohol, 

 the nitrification of ammonia, the ammoniacal fermentation of 

 urea, the lactic and butyric acid ferments — Mixed fermenta- 

 tions — The unorganized ferments, or enzymes — The diastatic, 

 peptic, rennet and pancreatic ferments - ■ 234-270 



CHAPTER XII. 



PRODUCTS OF THE METABOLISM OF ORGANISMS— EXAMINATION 

 OF DISINFECTANTS. 



The products of the vital activity of micro-organisms — The 

 ptomaines or cadaveric alkaloids : their characters and consti- 

 tution — The principal ptomaines and their properties — Brieger's 

 method for the isolation of ptomaines — The albumoses or 

 toxalbumens: their characters, etc. — The albumoses of diph- 

 theria, anthrax, cholera, typhoid. Staph, pyogenes av/reus, etc. 

 — 'Tuberculin' and 'malleirt' — Tests for albumoses — 'Intracel- 

 lular ' poisons — Chromogenic bacteria and colouring matters — 

 The phosphorescent bacteria — Other products of the metabolism 

 of micro-organisnas — -Antiseptics, germicides and disinfectants 

 — The chemical agents used as disinfectants — The bacterio- 

 logical examination of disinfectants 271-293 



CHAPTER 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 — ^Examination for sewage bacteria 

 — Isolation of the typhoid bacillus from water — Inhibition by 

 phenol — Resistance of the typhoid and colon bacillus to phenol 

 — Eisner's method — Other methods — Isolation of the cholera 



