342 



INDEX. 



Edema, malignant, bacillus, 270, 133 

 Egg-albumen as a culture-medium, 



81 



Egg-medium of Dorset, 81 

 Eggs, in cultivating anaerobes, 81, 95 

 Ehrlich's side-chain theory, 184 

 Electricity, influence on bacteria, 



127 



Eisner's culture-medium, 304 

 Emmerich's bacillus, 309 

 Emphysematous gangrene, 269 

 Endocarditis, 241, 245, 247, 254, 260 

 Endogenous spores, 123 

 Enzymes, 128, 174 

 Eosin, 39, 42 

 Epithelioid cells, 291 

 Erysipelas, 250 

 Escherich's bacillus, 309 

 Esmarch's method for anaerobes, 95 



roll-tubes, 99 



Essential oils as germicides, 207 

 Eye-piece, 29, 30 



FALLOPIAN tube, bacteria of, 

 151 



tarcy-buds, 297 



Fat in culture media, 81 



Fats, decomposition by bacteria, 129 



Feces, bacillus of tetanus in, 271 



bacteria of, 155 



disinfection, 208 



typhoid bacilli, examination for, 



304, 307 

 Fermentation, 22, 131 



-tube, 130 



Ferments, development by bacteria, 

 128 



and toxins, 1 74 

 Ferrous sulphate, 207 

 Fibrin, Weigert's stain, 53 

 Film-preparations, 37, 38, 39 

 Filter, alum, 139 



American, 139 



Berkenfeld, 69 



infusorial earth, 69 



Kitasato, 69 



mechanical, 139 



Pasteur-Chamberland, 69, 139 



sand, 138 



unglazed porcelain, 69, 139 

 Filtration, sterilization by, 69, 139 



of water, 138 

 Finkler and Prior spirillum, 324 



Fishing from colonies, 101 

 Fission of bacteria, 13 

 Fixation of cover-glass preparations, 

 37, 39 



of slide-preparations, 38, 39 



of tissues, 48 

 Flagella, 124 



staining, 58 

 Flies, bacteria carried by, 164, 309, 



321 



Fluid for cleaning, 36 

 Fluorescence of bacteria, 128, 222, 



262 



Focusing the microscope, 32, 35 

 FomI es, definition, 159 

 Foods, bacteria of, 144, 149 



poisoning by, 146, 150 

 Food used by oacteria, 125 

 Foot and mouth disease, 161 

 Forceps, Cornet, 36, 37 



cover-glass, 36, 37 



for slides, Kirkbride, 38 



Stewart, 36, 38 



Formaldehyde as a germicide, 201, 

 197, 210 



catgut, 216 



disinfection of rooms, 210 



fixation of tissues with, 48 

 Formalin (see Formaldehyde) 

 Formic acid, 130 

 Fowl-cholera, protective inoculation, 



178 



Fowls, tuberculosis of, 295 

 Fractional sterilization, 63 

 Frankel's method for anaerobes, 93 



pneumococcus (see also Micro- 

 coccus lanceolatus), 251 

 Freeman's pail for pasteurizing, 67, 



M7 



Freezing, influence on bacteria. 144 

 Friedlander's bacillus of pneumonia, 



260 

 Fuchsin, 39, 40 



acid, 39 



Fiirbringer's method for disinfec- 

 ting hands, 212 

 Fusiform bacillus of Vincent, 229 



/~* ABBETT'S method for staining 

 VJJ" tubercle bacilli, 46, 154 

 Gall-bladder, bacteria of, 151, 308. 



312 

 Gangrene, emphysematous, 269 



