GENERAL INDEX. 



CHORIONSchoenleinii (favus | Antitoxins, effect of, how pro- 



fungus), 622 

 Acids, effect of, on bacteria, 158 

 formation of, from alcohol, 



etc., 83 



from carbohydrates, 80 

 Aerobic bacteria, 141 

 Agar, nutrient, 215 



characteristic of, 225 

 Air, bacteriological examination 



of, 252 



Alexines, 120 

 Amoeba coli, 640 

 dysenterise, 640 

 Amoebae, occurrence of, in man, 



643 

 Anaerobic bacteria, 141 



culture methods for, 233 

 Aniline dyes, 166 



water solution of fuchsin or 



gentian violet, 202 

 Animals, use of, for diagnostic 



and test purposes, 236 

 Anthrax bacillus, 547 



biological characters, 551 

 growth in media, 552 

 identification of, 562 

 infection, how caused, 559 

 morphology of, 548 

 occurrence in cattle and 



sheep, 556 

 in man, 557 

 pathogenesis, 554 

 spore formation, 550 

 infection, prophylaxis against, 



561 



Antiseptic action, 151 

 Antitoxins, absorption of, taken 

 by the mouth, 115 



duced, 363 

 elimination of, by the body, 113 

 nature of, 362 



results of, in treatment of diph- 

 theria, 358 



stability of, in the serum, 113 

 varieties of bacteria producing, 



in the body, 113 

 Apparatus, sterilization of, 222 

 Arnold steam sterilizer, 213 

 Arthrospores, 46 

 Attenuation, 151 

 Autoclave, 214 

 Auto-infection. 131 



BACILLI, general characters of, 

 38 



Bacillus aerogenes capsulatus, 545 

 anthracis, 547 



symptomatici, 563 

 biology, 564 

 morphology, 563 

 pathogenesis, 564 

 coli communis, 444 

 of Friedlander, 458 

 icteroides (yellow fever), 609 

 of malignant oedema, 543 

 mallei (of glanders), 598 

 pestis bubonicae (plague), 606 

 proteus vulgaris, 539 



biological characters, 540 

 morphology, 539 

 pathogenesis, 541 

 pyocyaneus, 535 

 biology, 535 

 morphology, 535 

 pathogenesis, 536 



