INDEX TO 
Fermentation, alcoholic: caused by yeast plant, 
339. 
of sugar, Pasteur’s explanation, 377; Liebig’s 
view, 379; theory of, 378, 379; a catalytic 
process, 381; checked by atmospheric exposure 
(Pasteur), 381. 
Fermentation, butyric: 341. 
action of bacteria in, 379. 
Fermentation, lactic acid: produced by organisms 
in milk, 324. 
in milk not produced by exposure to atmosphere, 
324. 
Miller on, 341. 
bacteria and, 342. 
produced only by Bacterium lactis, 343. 
unboiled milk not spontaneously prone to, 344. 
and Bacillus lactis, 347. 
two kinds of bacteria in, 369. 
experimental proof that it is caused by Bac- 
terium lactis, 373, 375- 
oxygen and carbonic acid gas in, 382. 
See also Lactic acid. 
Fermentation of organic liquids: due to develop- 
ment of organisms, 353. 
Fermentation, putrefactive: in wounds, 335. 
of blood, 337. 
not caused by oxygen of air, 337. 
Fermentation, viscous: produced in milk by 
bacteria, 321. 
Fermentation, catalytic, 380. 
Fermentative agency in water consists of insoluble 
particles (Burdon Sanderson), 365. 
Fermentative changes: germ theory of, 275. 
changes of putrefactive character produced in 
urine by oidium, 296. 
different, produced in same medium by same 
bacterium, 333. 
in water, associated with bacteria, 365. 
Fermentative organisms: ultra-microscopic, pos- 
sible existence of, 382. 
Ferments: prevent growth of organisms in milk, 
346. 
Ferments, chemical : 
Liebig, 339. 
Fibre, involuntary muscular. See Muscular. 
Fibre cells, muscle: in web of frog’s foot, 18. 
in intestine of pig, 18. 
measurement of, 22. 
in stomach of rabbit, 23. 
Fibrine : composition of (Schmidt), 131. 
does not exist in solution in the plasma, 189. 
composed of fibrinogen and fibrinoplastic sub- 
stance, 189. 
influence of shrinking of, on blood corpuscles, 
195. 
deposition of, in sac of traumatic aneurysm, 197. 
not deposited in varicose aneurysm, 197. 
agencies in capillary system capable of dissolving 
clotting, 199. 
Fibrinogen in liquor sanguinis, 189. 
Fibrinoplastic substance in blood corpuscles, 189. 
Filamentous fungi. See Fungi. 
Fissiparous generation in organisms, 281. 
Fluidity of blood. See Blood. 
Foster, Michael: length of period of inspiration, 
169. 
Fowl cholera: clinical characters of, 390. 
Toussaint’s observations, 390. 
Pasteur’s researches, 390. 
doctrine of, advocated by 
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Fowl cholera (continued) : 
description of micro-organism causing, 391. 
bacterium of, has no putrefactive properties, 391. 
vaccination against, 393. 
‘attenuation ’ of virus of (Pasteur), 396. 
Freezing as a local anaesthetic: by mixture of ice 
and salt (James Arnott), 155; by ether spray 
(B. W. Richardson), 155. 
Freund (of Vienna): relation of meat liquids to 
coagulation, 192. 
Fright, death from. See Death. 
FROG, CUTANEOUS PIGMENTARY SYSTEM 
OF (1858), 48. 
Frog: increase of temperature in paralysed parts 
after transverse section of spinal cord, 28. 
effect of division of nerves on one side of spinal 
cord on arteries of lower limb, 30. 
method of demonstrating constriction of arteries 
on irritation of web of foot, 32. 
effects on vessels of removal of brain, 33. 
effects on vessels of removal of different parts 
of spinal cord, 33, 35. 
variations of calibre of vessels in web of foot on 
removal of brain, 33, 35; on removal of 
spinal cord at different levels, 34 ; on division 
of spinal cord, 35. 
nerve cells in leg producing irregular contrac- 
tions of arteries after division of brain from 
spinal cord, and amputation, 38, 39, 40, 41. 
Frog’s foot: muscular fibres in minute vessels in 
web of, 18. 
inflammatory congestion in web of, induced by 
mechanical irritation, 193. 
FUNCTIONS OF VISCERAL NERVES WITH 
SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE S5S0O- 
CALLED ‘INHIBITORY SYSTEM’ (1858), 87 
Fungi, filamentous: in urine exposed to air, 280. 
in atmospheric dust, 283. 
bacteria in urine originating from, 288. 
development of, in milk, 363. 
different fermentative changes produced by, 363. 
most frequently found in milk kept for a con- 
siderable time (footnote), 363. 
bacteria originating from, 385. 
Fungi, hyphomecetous: different ways of germina- 
tion of, 309. 
Galvanization: of intestine (rabbit’s), effects of, 
88, 89. 
of vagus, effects on cardiac movements, 92, 93. 
effect of, on cutaneous pigmentary system, 247, 
251. 
effect of, on cilia, 262. 
Gamgee, John (New Veterinary College, Edinburgh): 
mention of, 81, 107. 
Ganglia, intrinsic: contractions of heart 
peristalsis of intestines regulated by, 97. 
Ganglionic apparatus in submucous tissue of intes- 
tine, 91. 
Gangrene, hospital: development of, 
dressings if left long unchanged, 333. 
no special virus in, 333. 
Gangrene, spontaneous : from arteritis, 69. 
Gangrene, spreading: Koch’s researches on, 389. 
micrococcus Of, 389. 
GERM THEORY OF PUTREFACTION AND 
OTHER FERMENTATIVE CHANGES AND 
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF TORULAE 
AND BACTERIA (1873), 275. 
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