INDEX. 



609 



Bacterium, definition, 29 



Bain fijca/ettr, 161 



Bairn reducteur <•/ rcinforcateur, 161 



Bain tensibiiisattur, 101 



extract, preparation of bouillon 

 culture-medium from, 188 



Beggiatoa, 40 



Benches, glass, for use in plate-culture, 

 205 



liinary division, 2>3 



Biologic contributions to history of bac- 

 teriology, 15 



Biology of bacteria, 43 



Birds, susceptibility of, to inoculations 

 with tubercle bacilli, 332 



" Black-leg," 575 



Black vomit in yellow fever, cause of, 

 522 



Blood agar-agar as culture-medium, 



193 



elimination of bacteria from, 87 

 germicidal action of, as productive of 

 immunity, 141 

 Blood-serum as culture-medium, 194 

 addition of neutrose to, 196 

 advantages of, 194 

 alkaline, 196 

 preparation, 194 

 Koch's apparatus for coagulating and 



sterilizing, 195 

 liquefaction of, by bacteria, 215 

 mixture, Loffler's, 196 

 therapy, 28 

 Blue pus, bacillus of, 262. See also 



Bacillus pyocyaneus. 

 Body, surfaces of, as avenue of infec- 

 tion, 79 

 Boer's table of relative antiseptic power 



of methyl violet, 1 72 

 Botkin's apparatus for making anae- 

 robic cultures, 219 

 Bouillon as basis of other culture-media. 

 189 

 as culture-medium, 187 

 preparation, 187 



from beef-extract, 188 

 de panse, 410 

 method of making " pure" cultures 



in, 209 

 sugar, as culture-medium, 189 

 Bovine tuberculosis, 329 

 Brieger's tetanin, 37S 



typhotoxin, 480 

 Bubonic plague, 551 



bacillus of, 552. See also Bacil- 

 lus of bubonic plague. 

 diagnosis of, 560 

 immunity to, 560-562 

 means of infection in man, 559 



89 



Bubonic plague, serums of, 561 



toxin of, 561 

 Buchner's method for cultivation of 



anaerobic bacteria, 217 

 Bunge's method for staining flagella, 

 160 



Cabot's method of treating hydropho- 

 bia, 389 

 Carbol-fuchsin stain, 156 

 Carmin as a stain for bacteria, 146 

 Catarrhal pneumonia, 290. See also 



Pneumonia, catarrhal. 

 Catgut, disinfection of, 175 

 Celloidin, method of imbedding, 150 

 Cells, lepra, 342 

 Cerebrospinal meningitis, 274 



diplococcus of, 274. See also Dip- 

 lococcut intracellularis men- 

 ingitidis. 

 Charbon symptomatique, 575 

 Chemical contributions to history of 



bacteriology, 22 

 Chicken-cholera, 527 



bacillus of, 527. See also Bacillus 



of chicken-cholera. 

 pathogenesis of, 529 

 Cholera, 421 



Asiatic, spirillum of, 421. See also 

 Spirillum cholera Asiatica. 

 spread of, 421, 422 

 chicken-, 527. S,ee also Chicken- 

 cholera. 

 hog-, 531. See also Hog-cholera. 

 immunity from, Haffkine's method, 



434 

 of animals and certain men to, 430 

 infantum caused by bacillus coli com- 

 munis, 511 

 spirillum, spirilla resembling, 421 

 Von Pettenkoffer's theory of, 431 

 Chromogenic bacteria, 51, 53 

 Cilia, 30 



Circulation, means of entrance of bac- 

 teria into, 87 

 Cladothrix, 40 

 Classification of bacteria, 41 

 Cohn's morphologic, 42 

 Clostridium, 34 

 Clothing of sick-room, disinfection of, 



179 

 Coagulation of blood-serum, Koch's 



apparatus for, 195 

 Cocci, 36, 250, 253 



diagram illustrating morphology of,37 

 distribution of, in nature, 250 

 morphology of, 36 

 Cohn's morphologic classification of 

 bacteria, 42 



