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INDEX. 



Lactic acid, 81, 90, 94, 100-106, 121 



bacteria, 226 



dextro-rotatory, 101 



fermentation, 95, 100 



inactive, 101 



levo-rotatory, 101 

 Lactose, 80, 91, 101, 396 



media, 241 

 Lafar's counter, 436 

 Lake water, 441 

 Lanceolate bacteria, 18, 29 

 Latapie's holder, 267, 268 

 Leguminous plants, 61, no 

 Leprosy, 66, 320, 326 



sections of, 545 

 Leucin, 91 



Leuconostoc, 29, 105 

 Leuco-products, 115 

 Levulose, 95, 98 

 Liborius tubes, 306, 308, 526 

 Liehig's meat extract, 243, 474 

 Life history of bacteria, 41 

 Light, effect of on bacteria, 75, 85 

 on media, 75 



producing bacteria, 93 

 Lipochrome, 116 

 Liquefaction, 88 

 Liquors, 96 

 Litmus as indicator, 154 



media, 91, 96, 240, 241, 310 



purification of, 509 



sensitizing of, 510 

 Liver, foaming, 92 

 Living bacteria, examination of, 142 



ferments, 86 

 Lock-jaw, 304 

 Loffler's bacillus, 332 



methylene blue, 332 



mordant, 318 



serum, 334, 468 



Low temperature apparatus, 179 

 Lugol's solution, 288 

 Lumpy- jaw, 316, 393, 416, 546 

 Lupus, 322 

 Lysol as disinfectant, 526 



Madura foot, 316, 393, 418 

 Magnification, 128 



linear, 129 



measurement of, 128 



superficial, 129 

 Malaria, 259, 372 



Malignant oedema, 91, 194, 300, 446 

 No. II, 302 



pustule, 296 

 Mallein, 329, 330 

 Malt, 87, 98 

 Maltose, 98, 402, 406 



Man, blood from, 462 

 Mannite, 105 

 Marsh-gas, 92, 103 

 Martin's filter, 469 



pepton solution, 475 

 Mass culture, 168 

 Measurement of objects, 137 

 Meat, 116, 117, 153 

 Meat extract, Liebig's, 233, 243, 474 



fermented, 474 

 Mechanical interference, 281 

 Media, alteration by heat, 166 

 light, 95 



sterilization of, 161, 464 



tubing of, 511 

 Meningitis, 336, 337 

 Mercaptans, 94, in 

 Mercuric chloride, antiseptic action of, 

 528 



germicidal action of, 525 



hardening with, 532 



and hydrogen sulphide, 525, 526 



solution, 51, 167 



Mesentery, preparation from, 281 

 Metabolic products, 79 

 Methods of infection, 260 

 Methylamin, 90 

 Methyl violet, 146 

 Methylene blue, 146 



Kiihne's, 538 



Loffler's, '332 

 Mikulicz, cells of, 342 

 Mice, cage for, 273 



inoculation of, 262, 265 

 Microbic association, 70, 73, IO2, 310 



diseases, 259 

 Micro- burners, 251 

 Micrococci, forms of, 46 



motility of, 35 



multiplication of, 44 

 Micrococcus, 17 



aceti, 99 



gonorrhoese, 368 



pneumonise crouposse, 338 



prodigiosus, 194 



tetragenus, 370, 447 



urese, 107 

 Micrometer, ocular, 138 



cross- wire, 437 



stage, 137 



screw, 136 



value, 138 



Micro-millimeter, see micron 

 Micron, 24, 138 

 Microscope, 123 



care of, 136 



Microsporon furfur, 392, 414 

 Mildew, 392 



