The formation of poisons by micro-organisms : a biological study of the germ theory of disease / by G.V. Black.

Date:
1884
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Credit: The formation of poisons by micro-organisms : a biological study of the germ theory of disease / by G.V. Black. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS. Preface PAGE iii FIRST PART. FIRST LECTURE. Introduction—First Traces—Incentives to the Study—First Definite Announcement of the Germ Theory—Phlogiston—Zymosis— Jenner—Fermentation Hypothesis—Vaccine—Beginning of the Nineteenth Century—Early Discoveries—Astier—Schwan—Lie- big’s Views—Difficulties—Schroeder’s Discoveries—Schroeder’s Conclusions—Pasteur and his Work—Needham and Spallanzani —Pasteur's Plan of Work 11 to 34 SECOND LECTURE. Bastian and his Work—Archebiosis—Logical Sequence—Difficulties— Modes of Propagation of Micro-organisms—Utilizing Discoveries —Lister’3 Antiseptic Surgery—Nature of the Evidence—Direct Examinations for Micro-organisms—Evidence Unsatisfactory— Miasm and Contagion—Miasmatic Contagion—Infection Experi- ments—Discussions by Important Men 35 to 56 THIRD LECTURE. Beale’3 Work—The Amoeboid Theory of Contagion—Pasteur—The Bacillus Anthracis—Koch and his Work—Aniline Staining—Dry Slide Cultivations—Infection Experiments—Pathogenic Micro- organisms now certainly Demonstrated—What is Necessary for the Demonstration of a Pathogenic Micro-organism—The Evi- dence that Pathogenic Micro organisms are Different from ordinary Bacteria—Spores and Habits of Micro-organisms— Summary 57 to 76