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INDEX 



Bacteria, definition of, 13, 14 



effect of disinfectants and 



antiseptics on, 36 

 of heat and cold on, 36 



important pathogenic species, 

 48 



in food poisoning, 139 



in milk, 130 



incubation of, 29 



methods of studying, 22 



motility, 17 



relation of, to destructive in- 

 fluences, 36 

 to disease, 47 



spore formation, 17 



staining of, 25 

 Bacterial vaccines, 77 

 Bactericidal serum, 68 

 Bacteriology, definition of, 13 



historic, 11 

 Bacteriolysins, nature and role of, 



67 

 Behring, discovery of diphtheria 



antitoxin, 95 

 Bichlorid of mercury, effect of, on 



bacteria, 37 



Blood, defensive role of blood- 

 serum, 65 



parasite of malaria in, 126 

 Blood-stains, test for, 74 

 Blown cans, 141 



Boiling water for disinfection, 150 

 Boils, treatment, with bacterial 



vaccines, 78, 111 

 Bronchopneumonia, 103 

 Budding, definition of, 13 



CALMETTE test for tuberculous 



infection, 92 



Cancer, relation of bacteria to, 48 

 Carbolic acid, effect of, on bac- 

 teria, 38 



Carriers in the transmission of 

 disease, 55 



Cellulitis, 51 



Chancre in syphilis, 117 



Chicken-pox, quarantine in, 62 



Chickens, immunity to tetanus, 

 63 



Chlorid of lime, effect of, on bac- 

 teria, 39 



Chlorin in disinfection of water, 

 39, 145 



Cholera, bacteriology of, 86 

 carried by water, 143 

 quarantine in, 62 

 spirillum, 86 

 treatment of, 77 



Coccus, definition of, 15 



Cold, effect of, on bacteria, 36 

 on leukocytes, 66 



Coley's mixed toxins for sarcoma, 

 108 



Colon bacillus, 168 



in food poisoning, 140 

 in sanitary water examina- 

 tions, 147 



Colostrum, role of, in transmis- 

 sion of immunity, 64 



Complement, role of, 69 



Cow-pox, 122 



Creolin, effect of, on bacteria, 38 



Culex in relation to malaria, 57 



Cultures, method of making, 27 



Cytolysin, nature of, 68 



DAKIN'S solution, 41 

 Davaine, anthrax discoveries, 11 

 Dengue, virus of, 125 

 Diphtheria antitoxin, 97 



bacillus, 93 



bacteriology of, 93 



quarantine in, 60 



Schick test, 98 



