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THE STUDY OF EVOLUTION 



Bacillus mycoides, 39 

 „ perturbans, 31 

 „ prodigiosan, 56, 111, 116 

 „ pseudo-diphthericus. See B. 



hqffmanni 



„ pyocyaneus, 109, 111, 113, 



117, 158 



ruber (of Kiel), 110, 113, 114, 



117, 119 (of Plymouth), 113 



„ rubescens. See B. roseo- 



persicinum 

 „ tuberculosis, retention of pro- 

 perties, 57 ; strains of, 25 

 „ typhosus, 28, 109, 112, 125; 

 and adaptation, 351 et seq. ; 

 mutations of, 32 

 „ zopfii, 108 

 Bacillus of swine erysipelas, 116; of 



haemorrhagic septicaemia, 123 

 Bacteria, what constitutes the in- 

 dividual, 12; antiquity of, 16; 

 pathogenic, allied non - virulent 

 strains, 24; experimental produc- 

 tion of specific variations, 33 ; 

 changes in fermentative powers, 

 36 ; variability, 103 et seq. ; fixity 

 of species, 104; polymorphism, 

 108; chromogenic, 110, 112, 147; 

 production of races, 1 14 ; natural 

 races, 121 ; of haemorrhagic septic- 

 aemia, 123 ; in healthy tissues, 

 165 

 Bacterial species, doctrine of fixity of, 



24 

 Bacterium calcis, 17 



„ roseo-persicinum, 108, 355 



Ballantyne, 336 



Banti, on races of pneumococci, 124 

 Banti's disease, 344 

 Barber, 29 



Barfurth, on proliferation of nerve 



cells, 271 ; on regeneration of 



muscle, 267 ; on totipotential, pluri- 



potential, and unipotential cells, 336 



Barnes on activities of the electrons, 



241 

 Bashford, 201 



Bateson, W., his doctrine of evolution 

 by loss, 6, 34; his statical concep- 

 tion, 97 ; on backward evolution, 

 97 

 " Baustein " theory, 252 

 Bayliss, W. M., 86; on unicellular 



organisms, 12 

 Beard, J., 318 (note) 

 Beatson, 331 



Beneke, 172, 182 



Berlinger, 347 



Bernard, Claude, on unicellular organ- 

 isms, 12 ; on nucleus and cell 

 substance, 200 



Bernard of Chartres, 5 (note) 



Bilharziosis, 284, 303 ; antiquity of, 16 



Billings, F., 37 



Biophores, 206 ; their constitution, 

 77 ; growth of, 80 ; interaction 

 between, 95 



Bioplastic cell activities, 84 



Birkett and Meakins, 237 



Bizzozero, 267 ; on neoplasia, 273 



Blastomas, 335, 337 ; classification, 

 286 ; and hyperblastosis, relation- 

 ship between, 340 et seq. 



Blastomatoid growths, 338, 340 



Blastomycosis, 21 



Bone, proliferation of, 265 



Bordet, on nature of bacteriolysis, 251 



Boveri, 193, 195 



Bowman, F. B., 33; experiments with 

 B. typhosus re adaptation, 351 



Bretonneau, 42 



Briicke, 187, 205 



Brunton, Sir L., and Macfadyean, 30, 

 111 



Buchner, 109 



Burgess, 348 



Buxton, on the two orders of tissues, 

 313 



" Cancer bodies," 278, 332 



Cancer, causation of, 276 et seq. ; 

 parasitic theory, 278, 302, 329, 333 



Car bone, 184 



Carcinoma, definition of, 317 ; sarco- 

 matodes, 320 ; of uterus, 32 



Caries, antiquity of, 16 



Carlier, 198 ; on cell proliferation and 

 secretion, 289 



Carriere, on effects of tubercle bacillus 

 toxins, 62 



Cassedebat, 126 



Cell activities, neurogenic, environ- 

 mental, and automatic, 240 



Cell and tissue differentiation, 93 



Cell heredity, 59, 245, 247 



" CeU rests," 274, 288, 293, 335 



Cell, functional versus vegetative 

 activities, 84, 191, 269, 293; de- 

 generations and the nucleus, 202 ; 

 automaticity of, 240 ; paraplasmic 

 substances, 242; and enzyme 

 action, 245; metaplasia, 246; 







