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INDEX TO VOLUME II 



Bacteria : toxins of, in false membrane of diph- 

 theria, 507, 508. 

 Bacteric development : caused in uncontaminated 

 milk by addition of one-hundredth of a minim 

 of water, 2"/^. 

 results of experiment differ according to season, 



277 (footnote). 

 prevented by adhesive inflammation of perito- 

 neum, 286 [and footnote). 

 power of living tissues to oppose, 288. 

 prevented by organizing blood clot, 288. 

 Bacterium lactis : a single one detached from others 

 by diffusion by means of water as sure to pro- 

 duce its kind as a million taken from souring 

 milk, 278. 

 Bandage, elastic : method of applying to limb for 



amputation at hip joint, 415. 

 Bandage, elastic : Esmarch's, 394, 395, 396. 



v. Langenbeck's, 395, 396. 

 Bandages : method of making antiseptic by charg- 

 ing with double cyanide, 2^^^. 

 Bantock, G. Granville : his successful ovariotomies, 



335- 

 does not prepare ligatures antiseptically, 335. 

 uses strong silk twist for tying pedicle, 335. 

 success in abdominal surgery without antiseptic 



means a stumbling block to some, 335. 

 washes out peritoneum with water, 335, 

 uses sponges wrung out of sulphurous acid for 

 cleansing peritoneum, 335. 

 Bardeleben : results of antiseptic treatment in 

 Charite Hospital, Berlin, 252. 

 use of unprepared gauze soaked in watery solu- 

 tion of carbolic acid, 252. 

 Barker, Arthur : ' flushing gouge ' suggested by, 



346, 347 {footnote). 

 Barwell : use of ligatures made of aorta of larger 



animals, 104. 

 Behring, v. : resistance of Stapliylococciis pyogenes 

 aureus to germicidal action of bichloride of 

 mercury, 343. 

 staphylococci killed by carbolic acid, 344. 

 toxins of bacteria altered chemically and ren- 

 dered harmless by iodoform, 356; liis experi- 

 ments on this point, 356. 

 discovery of antitoxic serum, 509 ; its application 

 in tetanus and diphtheria, 510; successful in 

 latter case, 510; his hope that antitoxin will 

 reduce mortality from diphtheria to 5 per cent., 

 512; probabihty that it will be realized, 5 12. 

 Bell, Benjamin (Edinburgh), ' circular ' method of 



amputation, 383. 

 Benzene vapour : diffused through cotton wool as 



an antiseptic dressing, 176. 

 Berlin: antiseptic treatment in Charite Hospital, 252. 

 Bernard : his testimony as to beneficial effect of 

 antiseptic system on healtliiness of wards in 

 Naval Hospital, Plymouth 197. 

 Bernard, Claude : induction of turgescence of 

 vessels of ear by section of sympathetic in 

 neck, 529. 

 Bickers teth : method of treating ununited fracture 



by drills, 11, 

 Biniodide of mercury. See Mercury. 

 Bishop : his observation that dispensing with 

 macintosh in antiseptic gauze dressing greatly 

 lessens foul smell, 188. 

 Block tin : no suppuration in healthy granulating 

 wound covered bv, 40. 



Block tin [continued) : 



use of, to protect exposed tissue from stimulating 

 action of antiseptic dressing, 78, 79, 80. 



superseded in antiseptic dressing of compound 

 fracture, 142. 

 Blood : acted on by carbolic acid remains suscep- 

 tible to organization, 8, 53; similar effect on, 

 of chloride of zinc, 53. 



no decomposition of, when cifuscd into pleura in 

 puncture of lung from simple fracture of rib, 60. 



action of corrosive sublimate on albumen of, 299. 



experiments on effects of corrosive sublimate on, 

 300. 



in purified bottle and placed in stove at body 

 temperature remains unaltered, 350. 



becomes putrid on introduction of needle con- 

 taminated with putrefied blood, 350. 



introduction of bacteria diffused in sterilized 

 water does not cause putrefaction, 350. 



researches on corpuscular elements concerned in 

 supplying to plasma materials for formation 

 of fibrine, 538 {footnote). 

 Blood-clot : and carbolic acid fused together into 

 living mass, 11. 



' organization ' of, 118, 153; consists of infiltra- 

 tion with newly formed cells, 1 18. 



vascularization of, in healing under antiseptic 

 treatment, 153. 



organizing in wound antiseptically ti^eated, how 

 it differs from granulations, 265, 267. 



inferred to possess special power of preventing 

 development of septic bacteria, 280. 



its power of resistance to development of micro- 

 organisms, 281 {and footnote), 285 {and footnote). 



experiments on putrefaction of, in Uving body 

 (donkey), 282, 283. 



in living vein, its liabihty to suppuration under 

 septic influence, 283. 



no new grov/th of corpuscles in outside body, 284. 



action of, in preventing putrefaction explains 

 union by first intention without antisepsis, 287. 



formation of epidermis on, under sublimate wool 

 dressing, 298. 



does not contract when blood drawn under 

 antiseptic precautions, 300 ; this a ' perfect 

 mystery', 300. 



antibacteric influence of, 334; explained by pha- 

 gocyte theory, 334. 



suppuration of, its relation to pyaemia, 541. 

 Blood-clot, organized : production of secondary 

 mass when first is insufficient, 266. 



in wounds antiseptically treated : how it differs 

 from granulations, 265, 267. 



in wounds, 267. 



development of cells of new formation in, first 

 observed by author, 285 {footnote) ; observa- 

 tions on subject by Tillmanns and others, 285 ; 

 cell development may go on to suppuration, 

 285. 



its power of resisting development of putre- 

 factive bacteria, 286. 



prevents bacteric development, 288. 



under superficial layer of coagulum without 

 suppuration, 291. 

 Blood, coagulation of: in different species of 

 animals, 521. 



its importance in surgery, 535. 



B. W. Richardson's Astlcy Cooper Prize Essay 

 on, 535. 



