42 ESSENTIALS OF BACTERIOLOGY. 



Fin. 13. 



Chamberland's Autoclave with pressure. 



Fractional Sterilization of Tyndall. Granted that so many 

 spores originally exist in the object to be sterilized, it is sub- 

 jected to 60 C. for four hours, in which time a part at least of 

 those spores have developed into bacteria, and the bacteria 

 destroyed by the further application of the heat. The next day 

 more bacteria will have formed, and four hours' subjection to 

 GO heat will destroy them, and so at the end of a week, using 



