The Chemistry and Bacteriology of Public Health

The Chemistry and Bacteriology of Public Health deals with public health hygiene. This book reviews the alkalimetry, acidimetry, standard solutions, normal solutions, and the preparation of solutions in public health laboratories, including methods of estimating equivalent weights of substances. In collecting water samples for analysis, the investigator should avoid all sources of extraneous contamination. The Wanklyn's process analyzes organic matter in the water: different tests give quantitative estimates of water contamination or bacterial purity. The authors point that the process of analyzing sewage and sewage effluents are the same as in water analysis except that sewage is diluted with distilled water. The authors also explain how air and water are analyzed, soil analysis being a complex process. The authors discuss milk analysis (fresh, boiled, skimmed, powdered, condensed), butter, cheese, food grains. Microscopic examination of bacteria from samples taken are examined alive, in film preparations, or in sections. The book describes in detail the different types of bacteria, their occurrence, and how these are examined or cultured. This book is intended as a laboratory handbook for students taking up the examination in Public Health. The book can also prove beneficial for social worker, public health officials, and for undergraduate medical students.

Part I Chemistry

Chapter I. Alkalimetry, Acidimetry, Standard and Normal Solutions

Chapter II. The Physical and Chemical Examination of Water

Chapter III. The Analysis of Sewage and Sewage Effluents

Chapter IV. The Analysis of Soils

Chapter V. The Analysis of Air

Chapter VI. Milk Analysis

Chapter VII. The Analysis of Butter, Ghee and Cheese

Chapter VIII. The Examination of Food Grains, Bread, Beverages, etc

Chapter IX. The Examination of Disinfectants

Part II.—Bacteriology

Chapter I. The General Morphology and Biology of Bacteria

Classification

Nomenclature

The Anatomy of Bacteria

The Physiology of Bacteria

Variation and Mutation

The Bacteriophage

Chapter II. The Microscopic Examination of Bacteria and Staining of Specimens

Microscopic Preparations

Staining Methods

Staining Sections

Chapter III. The Preparation of Apparatus and Media and Cultivation of Bacteria

Sterilization

Cultivation

Isolation

Incubation

Filtration

Preparation of Media

Blood Cultures

Biochemical Reactions.

Chapter IV. Sera, Serum Tests, Vaccines and the Collection of Material for Examination Agglutination

The Absorption Test

Preparation of Agglutinating Sera

The Opsonic Index

The Hsemolytic Test

The Wassermann Reaction

The Preparation of Bacterial Vaccines Inoculation of Animals

Examination of Dead Animals

The Collection of Material for Pathological Examination

Chapter V. Immunity

Natural

Acquired

Antitoxic Sera

Antibacterial Sera

Haemolysins

Opsonins

Agglutinins

Precipitins

Chapter VI. The Non-pathogenic Bacteria and the Hyphomycetes

B. prodigiosus

B. subtilis

B. megatherium

B. mycoides

The Putrefactive Organisms

Proteus vulgaris

Proteus mirabilis

Proteus zenkeri

Micrococcusureae

B. acidi lactici

The Hyphomycetes

Chapter VII. The Pathogenic Bacteria—I.—Aerobic

The staphylococci

The Streptococci

The Pneumococcus

The Gonococcus

The Brucella

B. pyocyaneus

B. tuberculosis

B. leprae

B. mallei

Actinomycosis

B. Anthracis

The Colon-typhoid-dysentery group

B. Diphtheriae

V. Choleras

B. Influenza

B. Pestis

Chapter II. Anaerobic

B. Tetani

The Anaerobic Organisms Associated with Septic Wounds

B. Botulinus

Bacterial Food-Poisoning

Chapter VIII. The Spirochaetae, Rickettsia and the Filter-passing Viruses

Spironema Pallidum

Spirochseta Refringens

Spirochaeta Gracile

Spirochaeta Minutimi

Spirochaeta pertenuis

Spirodiaeta microdentium

Spirochaeta of Vincent's angina

Leptospira icterohaemorrhapiae

Leptospiraicteroides

Leptospira hebdomadis

Spirochaetamorsus muris

Spirochaeta obermeieri

Spironema duttoni

Rickettsia

Filter-passing Viruses

Smallpox

Hydrophobia

Epidemic Poliomyelitis

Epidemic Encephalitis

Chapter IX. Pathogenic Protozoa

Trypanosoma

Leishmania

Trichomonas

Giardia

Blood Parasites Resembling Malarial Parasites-Malarial Parasites

Plasmodium praecox-Piroplasma

Theileria

Haeniogregarines

The Amoeba

Chapter X. Animal Parasites

Trematodes

Cestodes

Nematodes—Filariae

Chapter XI. The Extra Corporeal Hosts of Pathogenic Organisms

Ticks

Sarcoptes

Sandflies

Tabanidae

Muscidae

Lice

Bugs

Fleas

Mosquitoes

Chapter XII. The Bacteriological Examination of Water, Air and Soil

Chapter XIII. The Bacteriology of Milk, Meat, etc

Chapter XIV. The Determination of the Germicidal Power of Disinfectants

Index