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SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.

PART I.
INTRODUCTORY.
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CHAPTER I.—Historical and General           1—16
CHAPTER II.—Nature of Black-water Fever; Scope of the Present Enquiry   17—19
PART II.
BLACK-WATER FEVER MALARIAL IN ORIGIN.
CHAPTER I.—Black-water Fever Conditions         21—32
CHAPTER II.—Black-water Fever.—Ætiological         33—45
CHAPTER III.—Black-water Fever not due to a Special Parasite       47—54
CHAPTER IV.—Specific Relation of Black-water Fever to Malaria     55—63
CHAPTER V.—Conclusions in regard to the Factors engaged in bringing about
                              Black-water Fever		             65—66
PART III.
BLACK-WATER FEVER DUE TO THE ACTION OF A SPECIAL HÆMOLYSIN.
CHAPTER I.—Clinical and Pathological Observations bearing upon the nature of
                                the process concerned in Black-water Fever		     67—92
CHAPTER II.—The relation of Black-water Fever to other Hæmoglobinurias   93—112
CHAPTER III.—General Consideration of blood destruction in relation to Hæmo-
                                globinuria		             113—125
CHAPTER IV.—The Lysæmia of Black-water Fever         127—142
PART IV.
NATURE OF THE HÆMOLYSIN IN BLACK-WATER FEVER.
CHAPTER I.—Hæmolysins               143—150
CHAPTER II.—The Demonstration of Auto-lysins         151—157
CHAPTER III.—Human Iso-lysins             159—175
CHAPTER IV.—The nature of the Black-water Fever Process       177—179