The Fundamentals of Bacteriology
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Excerpt from The Fundamentals of BacteriologyThe student in his biological courses has already learned the necessity of classifying living organisms. The division of the organic world into plants and animals is a very old one. It seems to have been based primarily on ability to move from place to place. Animals could move, plants could not. The first microscopic forms discovered in the seventeenth century were called animalcules, little animals, because many of them could be seen to move. The fact that all organisms are made up of cells and that there are organisms consisting of one cell only ...
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- THE FUNDAMENTALS OF BACTERIOLOGY
- PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
- PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
- CONTENTS
- BACTERIOLOGY.
- HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.
- SPONTANEOUS GENERATION.
- CAUSATION OF DISEASE.
- PUTREFACTION AND FERMENTATION.
- STUDY OF FORMS.
- CHAPTER I. POSITION—RELATIONSHIPS.
- PART I. MORPHOLOGY
- CHAPTER II. CELL STRUCTURES.
- CHAPTER III. CELL FORMS.
- CHAPTER IV. CELL GROUPINGS.
- CHAPTER V. CLASSIFICATION.
- ORDER I. Eubacteria.
- ORDER II. THIOBACTERIA: SULPHUR BACTERIA.
- THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN BACTERIOLOGISTS.
- PART II. PHYSIOLOGY.
- CHAPTER VI. GENERAL CONDITIONS FOR GROWTH.
- OCCURRENCE.
- MOISTURE.
- TEMPERATURE.
- LIGHT.
- OXYGEN SUPPLY.
- OSMOTIC PRESSURE.
- ELECTRICITY.
- RADIATIONS.
- PRESSURE.
- MECHANICAL VIBRATION.
- CHAPTER VII. CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT.
- REACTION OF MEDIUM.
- INJURIOUS CHEMICAL SUBSTANCES.
- CHEMICAL COMPOSITION.
- CHAPTER VIII. CHEMICAL ENVIRONMENT (Continued).
- GENERAL FOOD RELATIONSHIPS. METABOLISM.
- CHAPTER IX. PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES.
- FERMENTATION OF CARBOHYDRATES.
- SPLITTING OF FATS.
- CHAPTER X. PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES (Continued).
- PUTREFACTION OF PROTEINS.
- CHAPTER XI. PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES (Continued).
- PRODUCTION OF ACIDS.
- GAS PRODUCTION.
- PRODUCTION OF ESTERS.
- PRODUCTION OF “AROMATIC” COMPOUNDS.
- PHOSPHORESCENCE OR PHOTOGENESIS.
- PRODUCTION OF PIGMENT OR CHROMOGENESIS.
- REDUCING ACTIONS.
- OXIDATION.
- PRODUCTION OF HEAT.
- ABSORPTION OF FREE NITROGEN.
- CHAPTER XII. PHYSIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES (Continued).
- PRODUCTION OF ENZYMES.
- PRODUCTION OF TOXINS.
- CAUSATION OF DISEASE.
- ANTIBODY FORMATION.
- STAINING.
- CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS.
- CHAPTER XIII. DISINFECTION—STERILIZATION—DISINFECTANTS.
- PHYSICAL AGENTS.
- CHAPTER XIV. DISINFECTION AND STERILIZATION (Continued).
- CHEMICAL AGENTS.
- ELEMENTS.
- COMPOUNDS.
- ORGANIC COMPOUNDS.
- CHAPTER XV. DISINFECTION AND STERILIZATION (Continued).
- CHOICE OF AGENT.
- STANDARDIZATION OF DISINFECTANTS—“PHENOL COEFFICIENT.”
- PRACTICAL STERILIZATION AND DISINFECTION.
- PART III. THE STUDY OF BACTERIA.
- CHAPTER XVI. CULTURE MEDIA.
- CHAPTER XVII. METHODS OF USING CULTURE MEDIA.
- CHAPTER XVIII. ISOLATION OF BACTERIA IN PURE CULTURE.
- CHAPTER XIX. STUDY OF INDIVIDUAL BACTERIA—STAINING.
- HANGING DROP SLIDE.
- STAINING.
- CHAPTER XX. STUDY OF THE PHYSIOLOGY OF BACTERIA.
- APPEARANCE OF GROWTH ON DIFFERENT CULTURE MEDIA.
- CHAPTER XXI. ANIMAL INOCULATION.
- SECURING AND TRANSPORTING MATERIAL FROM ANIMALS FOR BACTERIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION.
- PART IV. GENERAL PATHOGENIC BACTERIOLOGY.
- CHAPTER XXII. INTRODUCTION.
- CHAPTER XXIII. PATHOGENIC BACTERIA OUTSIDE THE BODY.
- I.
- II. A.
- II. B.
- CHAPTER XXIV. PATHS OF ENTRANCE OF PATHOGENIC ORGANISMS, OR CHANNELS OF INFECTION.
- MECHANISM OF ENTRANCE OF ORGANISMS.
- DISSEMINATION OF ORGANISMS.
- PATHS OF ELIMINATION OF PATHOGENIC MICROÖRGANISMS.
- SPECIFICITY OF LOCATION OF INFECTIVE ORGANISMS.
- CHAPTER XXV. IMMUNITY.
- CHAPTER XXVI. THEORIES OF IMMUNITY.
- CHAPTER XXVII. RECEPTORS OF THE FIRST ORDER.
- ANTITOXINS—ANTIENZYMES.
- CHAPTER XXVIII. RECEPTORS OF THE SECOND ORDER.
- AGGLUTININS.
- PRECIPITINS.
- CHAPTER XXIX. RECEPTORS OF THE THIRD ORDER.
- CYTOLYSINS.
- AMBOCEPTORS.
- COMPLEMENTS.
- ANTISNAKE VENOMS.
- FAILURE OF CYTOLYTIC SERUMS.
- COMPLEMENT-FIXATION TEST.
- CHAPTER XXX. PHAGOCYTOSIS—OPSONINS.
- BACTERIAL VACCINES.
- AGGRESSIN.
- CHAPTER XXXI. ANAPHYLAXIS.
- Summary of Immunity as Applied to Protection from Disease.
- List of Laboratory Exercises Given in Connection with the Class Work Included in this Text-book.
- DESCRIPTIVE CHART—SOCIETY OF AMERICAN BACTERIOLOGISTS.
- GLOSSARY OF TERMS.
- NOTES.
- TABLE I.
- DETAILED FEATURES.
- FOOTNOTES.
- INDEX
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