INDEX 



319 



Kinetic nucleus, 277 

 Koch, spirochete of, 264 

 Koch's postulates, 104 

 Koch- Weeks bacillus, 234 



L+, 118 



Labarraque's solution, as disinfectant, 21 

 Laboratory rules, 51 

 Leishman-Donovan bodies, 287 

 Leishmania, 278 



infantum, 288 



tropica, 288 



Leishmania-Donovani, 286 

 Leprosy, bacillus of, 198 



rat, 199 



Leptothrix, 267 

 Leptothrix buccalis, 267 

 Leukocidin, 156 



Leukocytes, protective action of, 129, 130 

 Light, effect of, on bacteria, 15 



result of bacterial growth, 22 

 Lime, chlorid of, as disinfectant, 20 



milk of, as disinfectant, 20 

 Limes death, 118 

 Litmus milk, 35 

 Loeffler's methylene blue stain, 46 



serum, 36 

 Lophotricha, 10 

 Luetin, 262 

 Lumpy jaw, 270 

 Lysins, 139 

 Lysol, as disinfectant, 19 



Macrocytase, 129 

 Macrogametocytes, 292 

 Macrophages, 129 

 Madura Foot, 271 

 Malaria, 290 



Malarial parasites, varieties of, 294 

 Malignant edema, bacillus of, 247, and 

 see Bacillus of malignant edema 



in soil, 70 



Malignant fever, 294 

 Malignant pustule, 224 

 Mallein reaction, 228 

 Mantoux's intracutaneous test, 196 

 Massaval's spirillum, 259 

 Measles, 311 

 Meat poisoning, 249 

 Media, see Culture media 

 Meningococcus, 168 



agglutinins, 171 



compared with gonococcus, 173 



cultivation of, 169 



micrococci resembling, 175 



morphology of, 169 



pathogenesis of, 170 



resistance of, 169 



staining of, 169 



vaccines, 171 



Merozoites, 278, 291 

 Metachromatic granules, 9 

 Metazoa, 277 

 Metchnikoff's spirillum, 258 



theory of immunity, 129 

 Microbe, 5 

 Micrococci, 6 



Micrococcus catarrhalis, 175 

 Micrococcus lanceolatus, see Pneumo- 



coccus 



Micrococcus Melitensis, 175 

 Micrococcus tetragenus, 157 



cultivation of, 157 



morphology of, 157 



pathogenesis of, 157 



staining of, 157 

 Microcytase, 129 

 Microgametocytes, 292 

 Microorganisms, 5 



acid-fast, 47, 188, 189, 198 

 Microphages, 129 

 Microscope, 38, 39 



double, 41 



Microsporon furfur, 274 

 Milk, 83 



bacteria in, 83, 88 



bacteriology of, 83 



colored, 87 



diseases transmitted by, 88, 90 



estimation of bacterial content in, 85 



germicidal property of, 84 



litmus, 35 



number of bacteria in, 84, 85 



pasteurization of, 90 



pathogenic organisms in, 88 



putrid, 87 



ropy, 87 



sour, 86 



standards, 86 



sterilization of, 90 



Milk-borne epidemics, character of, 90 

 Milk of lime, as disinfectant, 20 

 Mineralization, 66 

 Minimum lethal dose, 117 

 Mixed infection, 153 

 Moeller's method of staining spores, 47 

 Moist heat, sterilization by, 26 

 Moisture needed by bacteria, 14 

 Molds, 4, 266, 271 

 Monilia Candida, 275 

 Monotricha, 10 

 Morax-Axenfeld bacillus, 234 

 Mordants, 45 



Moro's percutaneous test, 196 

 Morphology of bacteria, determination 



of, 59 



Mosaic disease of tobacco, 307 

 Mosquitoes, 



sedes calopus, 303 



