INDEX. 



351 



Blood-serum, Koch's apparatus for 

 coagulating and sterilizing, 



H3 

 mixture, Lb'rHer's, 114 



Body-juices, antibactericidal action 

 of, 69 



Botkin's apparatus for making an- 

 aerobic plate-cultures, 133 



Bouillon as a culture-medium, 106 

 preparation of, 106 



Brownian movement, 32 



Bubonic plague, 318 

 bacillus of, 319 

 cultures of, 319 

 discovery of, 29 

 pathogen esis of, 320 



Buchner's method of making an- 

 aerobic cultures, 130 



CARBOL-FUCHSIN, 86 

 Carbolic acid, value of, as a germi- 

 cide, 100 



Carmin and hematoxylon, efforts 

 to facilitate observation of 

 bacteria by means of, 77 

 Cells, phagocytic, 63 

 Charbon symptomatique. See An- 

 thrax, symptomatic. 

 Chemotaxis, 63 

 Chicken-cholera, 325 

 bacillus of, 325 

 cultures of, 326 

 pathogenesis of, 327 

 pneumococcus of, discovery of, 



28 

 Cholera, 266 



Asiatic, spirillum of, 267 

 cultures of, 270-273 

 staining of, 270 

 effect of vaccination in prevention 



of, 279 



immunity to, attempts to pro- 

 duce, 278 

 reasons for, 275 

 infectious nature of, 267 

 spirillum of, in drinking-water, 



means of detecting, 278 

 pure cultures of, Schottelius' 

 method of securing, 271 



Cholera spirillum, toxic products of 



the metabolism of, 274 

 theories as to the cause of, 276 

 Cilia, 31 

 Cladothrix, 39 

 Closet, hot-air, 92 

 Clostridium, 34 

 Clothing, disinfection of, 103 

 Cocci, 36 



morphology of, 36 

 Cohn's classification of the bacteria, 



41, 42 



Comma bacillus, discovery of, 29 

 Cotton, sterile, value of, in bacte- 

 riological work, 92 

 Cover-glass forceps, 80 

 preparations for general examina- 

 tion, 78 

 Gram's method for staining, 



84 

 method of fixing material for 



examination, 79 

 Cover-glasses, cleaning of, 79 

 Cultivation of bacteria, 106 

 Culture-media, 106 

 agar-agar, no 

 blood-serum, 112 

 bouillon, 106 

 Dunham's solution, 116 

 gelatin, 109 

 glycerin agar-agar, 112 

 liquid, best means of keeping, 



107 

 development of bacteria in, 



125 



litmus milk, 1 1 5 

 LofHer's blood-serum mixture, 



114 



milk, 115 



peptone solution, 116 

 potatoes, 114 

 potato-juice, 115 

 sterilization of, 93 

 Cultures, anaerobic, various meth- 

 ods for making, 130-133 

 plate-, 118 

 puncture-, 125 



in gelatin, various appearances 

 of, 126 



