/.nT;it CI it iu> 11,30 MANUAL VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY. (^PROFESSOBS)^OSSELM AN AND ^LIENAUX, National Veterinary College, Cureghem, Belgium. TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY R. R DINWIDDIE, Professor of Veterinary Science, College of Agriculture, Arkansas State University; Animal Pathologist, Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station. CINCINNATI: THE ROBERT CLARKE COMPANY. 1894. COPYRIGHT, 1894, BY R. R. DINWIDDIE PREFACE. In undertaking the translation of MM. Mosselman and Lienaux's "Manuel de Microbioloyie Veterinaire," . my object has been to supply English speaking veteri- nary students and practitioners with a work on Bacteriology which seemed specially adapted to their needs. The book is small, but it conveys more in- formation on the etiology of the infectious diseases of animals and the biology of the germs associated with them than any other single work in our language. Unlike other works on Bacteriology accessible to readers of English only, the Microbiology of animal diseases is treated of as the essential part of the work, that of diseases of ally referred to. mankind only incident- to details The completeness and accuracy as with which it discusses the modes of prop- agation of some of our most important diseases and the general conditions under which these diseases occur, ought to veterinarians, recommend the book who are ...
/.nT;it
CI it iu>
11,30
MANUAL
VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY.
(^PROFESSOBS)^OSSELM
AN
AND
^LIENAUX,
National Veterinary College, Cureghem, Belgium.
TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY
R.
R
DINWIDDIE,
Professor of Veterinary Science, College of Agriculture, Arkansas State University; Animal Pathologist, Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station.
CINCINNATI:
THE ROBERT CLARKE COMPANY.
1894.
COPYRIGHT,
1894,
BY
R. R.
DINWIDDIE
PREFACE.
In undertaking the translation of MM. Mosselman and Lienaux's "Manuel de Microbioloyie Veterinaire,"
.
my
object has been to supply English speaking veteri-
nary students and practitioners with a work on Bacteriology which seemed specially adapted to their
needs.
The book
is
small, but
it
conveys more
in-
formation on the etiology of the infectious diseases of animals and the biology of the germs associated
with them than any other single work in our language. Unlike other works on Bacteriology accessible to readers of English only, the Microbiology of
animal diseases
is
treated of as the essential part of
the work, that of diseases of
ally referred to.
mankind only
incident-
to details
The completeness and accuracy as with which it discusses the modes of prop-
agation of some of our most important diseases and the general conditions under which these diseases
occur, ought to
veterinarians,
recommend the book who are presumably more
to practical
interested in
the ascertained facts in regard to any disease than in the individuality of the germ which occasions it.
The book
is
not intended for a laboratory manual,
consequently, the technique of staining and cultiva(iii)
iv
Preface.
tion of
germs
is
not exhaustively discussed, and the
usual illustrations of bacteriological apparatus have
been omitted.
As
:
to the translation itself a
few words are neces-
sary Weights and measures, given in the metrical system in the original, have not been changed. Dimensions which occur in this work are chiefly those
of microscopic objects which
are
now
rarely
ex-
pressed by American microscopists in fractions of an
The thermometric readings are in all cases given in the centigrade scale. For those who are unfamiliar with the decimal system the Appendix
inch.
will supply the requisite information.
The few
some
foot-notes
which
I have introduced are in
cases intended to be supplementary to the text,
referring to discoveries
which have been made since
the publication of the original in 1891. In other cases they are explanatory of words or statements
which might otherwise be misunderstood. To the illustrations which occur in the French text I have added a few others borrowed from differtions
ent sources, which are acknowledged in the descripaccompanying the figures four are from draw;
ings of preparations in
my own
possession.
R. E. DINWIDDIB.
FATETTEVILLE, ARK., July 19, 1894.
TABLE OP CONTENTS.
PART
Generalities
I.
FIRST.
upon Microbes.
11
11
Microbes in the Static Condition.
Definition
Forms
Organization and chemical composition Occurrence and distribution in nature
II.
*.
14
14
Physiology of Microbes. Foods of microbes
Digestion of microbes
19
19 21
'
Eespiration of microbes Nutrition of microbes
22
Movements
of microbes
24
25 27 30 30
81
Generation, multiplication Action of the media on microbes Action of microbes on the media
Role of bacteria in nature Fermentations
Putrefaction
32
Role of bacteria in the normal organism Digestive action of microbes Putrefaction of cadavers R61e of microbes in the organism in the pathological con,
33 33
.
34 36
dition
Classification
...
37
PART SECOND.
Generalities
I.
upon Pathogenic Microbes.
39
Pathogenic Microbes in the Static Condition.
Saprogenic or eaprophytic germs
(v)
,
vi
Contents.
Pathogenic germs Conditions of existence of pathogenic germs in external media and in the economy. Sources of infection Contagious obligatory parasitic microbes Contagious facultative microbes Non-contagious facultative microbes
,
40
40 40
41
Distribution of pathogenic germs
Modes
of contagion
Immediate contagion
Direct contact
Heredity Mediate contagion
Absorption of pathogenic microbes
El.
42 43 52 52 53 53 54 55
Physiology of Pathogenic Microbes.
Action of microbes upon the organism Pathogeny of the local changes Pathogeny of general and remote changes
Receptivity
61
61
63 65 70
74
Immunity
Reaction of the organism against microbes
Phagocytosis
Bactericidal state
74
76
Elimination of microbes Modifications of virulence Evolution of the bacterial disease Incubation Latent microbism Specificity of pathogenic microbes
III.
78
,
.
79
80
81
81
82
Transformation and Destruction of Pathogenic Microbes in their Relation to Hygiene and Therapeutics.
Morphological and physiological variations of pathogenic microbes Attenuation Preventive inoculations vaccinations Destruction of pathogenic microbes
;
85
87 94
97
IV.
Methods of Determination of Pathogenic Microbes. Basic and acid colors 104
Examination of liquids Examination of organic pulps Examination of sections
106
107 107