6io 



INDEX. 



Collodion capsules, making of, 225 



use of, for growing bacteria, 225 

 Color-producing bacteria, 5 1, 53 

 Comma bacillus, 422 

 discovery of, 28 

 Concentrated tuberculin, 320 

 Conidia, 40 



Conjunctiva as source of infection, 74 

 Consumptives, expectoration of, relative 

 number of tubercle bacilli in, 

 300 

 Cotton, sterile, use of, in bacteriologic 



work, 165 

 Cover-glass, cleansing of, 147 

 forceps, Stewait's, 148 

 preparations for examination of 

 bacteria, 147 

 Gram's method for, 155 

 Croupous pneumonia, 279 

 Cultivation of bacteria, 183 

 Culture, definition, 202 

 Culture-media, 183 

 agar-agar, 191 

 alkaline blood-serum, 196 

 blood agar-agar, 193 

 blood-serum, 194 

 bouillon, 187 

 desirable qualities of, 183 

 Deycke's alkali-albuminate, 196 

 Dunham's solution, 199 

 gelatin, 190 

 glycerin agar-agar, 193 

 liquid, apparatus for filling tubes 

 with, 189 

 best means of keeping, 188 

 development of bacteria in, 211 

 litmus-milk, 198 



Lofner's blood-serum mixture, 196 

 manner of expressing reaction of, 186 

 method of determining degree of 

 reaction for, 185 

 solutions for, 185 

 milk, 198 



peptone*solution, 199 

 Petruschky's whey, 199 

 potato-juice, 198 

 potatoes, 197 

 standard reaction of, 187 

 sterilization of, 166 

 sugar bouillon, 189 

 Culture, plate-, 202, 203. See also 

 Plate-cultures. 

 present use of the word, 202 

 stroke-, 210 

 Cultures, 202 



anaerobic, various methods for mak- 

 ing, 216-220 

 methods employed to secure, 202 

 puncture- 209 



Cultures, puncture-, gelatin, various 

 forms, 212 

 " pure," 202 



method of making, 208 

 in bouillon, 209 

 in gelatin, 209 

 secured by animal inoculation, 211 

 study of, 202 

 Culture-tubes, method of filling, 189 



of inoculating, 204 

 Cup, pasteboard, for receiving infec- 

 tious sputum, 178, 309 

 Czaplewski and Hensel's method of 

 washing sputum, 305 



Death-point, thermal, determination 



of, 240, 241 

 Defensive proteids, 101 

 De Giacomi's modification of Lust- 

 garten's method for staining 

 bacillus of syphilis, 352 

 Dejecta, disinfection of, 176, 178 

 Deycke's alkali-albuminate as culture- 

 medium, 196 

 Digestive apparatus as source of infec- 

 tion, 75, 81. See also Infec- 

 tion, sources of, digestive ap- 

 paratus. 

 Diluted tuberculin, 320 

 Diplococci, 36 



morphology of, 36 

 Diplococcus intracellularis meningiti- 

 dis, 274 

 channels of infection, 277 

 cultivation of, 275 

 distribution in nature, 278 

 Park's method for obtaining, 



from lumbar puncture, 276 

 results of animal inoculation with, 



277 

 staining of, 275 

 vitality of, 276 

 lanceolatus, 279 

 capsulated, 281 

 colony of, on gelatin, 283 

 discovery of, 28 

 for purposes of study, 282 

 growth of, 282 

 other lesions caused by, 287 

 susceptibility of animals to inocu- 

 lation with, 285 

 virulence of, 282-284 

 of cerebrospinal meningitis, 275. 

 See also Diplococcus intra- 

 cellularis meningitidis. 

 of mumps, 271—273 

 Diphtheria, 390 



antitoxic serum, determination of 

 strength of, 413, 414 



