604 



INDEX. 



Antitoxin, action of, upon toxin, chemic 

 action theory, 132 

 combining ferment theory, 136 

 cytic stimulation theory, 134 

 chemic nature of, 131 

 mode of administration, 137 

 of anthrax, 464 



of diphtheria, 408. See also Diph- 

 theria, antitoxin of 

 origin of, 127 



an enzyme produced in culture, 



129 

 product of cytic activity, 130 

 " Seiten-ketten Theorie," 130 

 theories, 127-130 

 toxins in a modified form, 127 

 serum of bacillus dysentericus, 516 

 of diphtheria, preparation of, for 



therapeutic purposes, 413 

 of hog-cholera, 537 

 of tetanus, 378-382 

 of yellow fever, 525 

 specific action of, 130 

 theory of immunity, 105 

 Antitubercle serum, Maragliano's, 327 

 Antituberculin, 328 

 Arnold's steam sterilizer, 166 

 Aromatics, production of, by bacteria, 57 

 Arthrospores, 36 

 formation of, 36 

 resisting power of, 36 

 Ascococci, 38 

 Aseptic surgery, 171 

 Asiatic cholera, spirillum of, 421. See 

 also Spirillum cholera Asiat- 

 ic a. 

 Association, influence of, on growth of 



bacteria, 47 

 Atmosphere, germs in dust in, 20 

 presence of bacillus tuberculosis in, 

 308 

 Autoclave for rapid sterilization, 167 

 Trillat, 173 



Bacilli, 38 



diagram illustrating morphology of, 



38 

 forms of, 38 

 morphology of, 390 

 motility of, 31 



in colonies, 32 

 multiplkation of, 38 

 resembling bacillus anthracis, 465 

 bacillus diphtherise, 418 

 .bacillus tetani, 382 

 bacillus tuberculosis, 332 

 bacillus typhosus, 504 

 Bacillus aerogenes capsulatus, 585. See 

 also Bacillus of gaseous edema. 



Bacillus anthracis, 456 



bacilli resembling, 465 

 channels of entrance, 460 

 cultures of, 458-460 



on gelatin plate, 456 

 discovery of, 25 

 methods of diminishing virulence 



of, 463 

 resisting powers of, 463 

 staining of, 457 



to show spores, 457 

 susceptibility of, to heat, cold, etc., 



463 

 toxic products of, 462 

 symptomatica 575 

 cultures of, 577 

 morphology of, 575 

 staining of, 575, 576 

 virulence of, 578 

 capsulatus mucosus as cause of 

 pneumonia, 290 

 growth of, 289 

 choleras gallinarum, 527. See also 



Bacillus of chicken-cholera. 

 coli communis, 266, 504 



and bacillus typhosus, resem- 

 blance between, 471-475 

 cause of cholera infantum, 51 1 

 cultures of, 505-507 

 determination of, 511 

 differentiation of, from bacillus 



typhosus, 513 

 distribution of, 504 

 immunization against, 5 10 

 in yellow fever, 518 

 morphology of, 505 

 motility of, 505 

 pathogeny of, 507-5 11 

 penetration of intestinal tissues 



by, 507 



production of ammonia by, 506 



of indol by, 507 

 resistance to germicides, 507 

 staining of, 505 

 varieties of, 512 

 virulence of, 508 

 coli immobilis, 505 

 colon, 504. See also Bacillus coli 



communis. 

 comma, 422 



discovery of, 28 

 der Mausesepticamie, 544 

 diphtherise, 390 



bacilli resembling, 418 

 colony on agar-agar, 396 

 cover-glass preparations, 392 

 cultivation of, 392 

 differentiation from pseudodiph- 

 theria bacillus, 419 



