INDEX. 



A PAGE 



Absorptive digestion 82 



Absolute demonstration demanded 68 



Alcohol isolation of. 18 



early distillation of. 18 



Amo3boid theory of contagion 57 



Antiseptics first explanation of. 19 



Antiseptic treatment introduced by Mr. Lister 41 



in hospitals 42 



success of. 56 



Aniline staining .* 62 



Alkaloids consideration of. 118 



are waste products 118 



components of the 118 



natural salts of the 126 



isolation of the, necessary 127 



relation of the alcohols to the 126 



" of the organic acids to the 126 



solubility of the... 126 



Antiphlogistics 16 



Appendix 147 



Archebiosis 35 



Astier's discoveries 19 



Athenian plague 12 



B 



Bacillus Anthracis 61, 90, 127 



Bacteria Beale's views of. 57 



difficulties of distinguishing varieties 38 



consideration of the waste products of. 120 



how they destroy a carcass 121 



many of the, incapable of producing disease 39 



regarded as scavengers 39 



supposition as to, in open wounds 41 



the accompaniments of disease, not the cause 52 



the active agents in decompositions 41 



their power of remoleculization of matter.... 120 



poisons formed by 124 



Bacterium lactis artificial elimination of the waste products of. 122 



" in soup 136 



termo in blood 84 



Bastian on the origin of life 35 



Beale on disease germs 57 



Berthelot , 84 



Black death, the 13 



Blood diseases 145 



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