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INDEX. 



Fever, relapsing, 545. See also Relaps- 

 ing fever. 

 typhoid, 466. See also • Typhoid 



fever. 

 yellow, 518. See also Yellow fever. 

 Filter, sand-, for examination of air, 



Petri's, 230 

 Filters, Kitasato's, 170 

 Pasteur-Chamberland, 168 

 porcelain, in sterilization, 169 

 Reichel's, 170 

 sterilization of, 170 

 Filtration as means of diminishing num- 

 ber of bacteria in water, 236 

 rapid, of toxins, apparatus for, 1 71 

 Fiocca's method for staining spores, 



157 

 Fission, 33 



results of, ^^ 

 Flagella, 30 



methods of staining, 158 

 Bunger's, 160 

 Loffler's, 158 

 Pitfield's, 160 

 Van Ermengem's, 161 



Gorden's modification of, 162 

 Flora of vagina, 78 

 Forceps, cover-glass, Stewart's, 148 

 Formaldehyde as a germicide, 173, 178 

 disinfection by, 173, 174, 177 

 apparatus for, 173 

 of living-rooms by, 180 

 regenerator, sanitary, 173 

 " Formalin," 174 



germicidal power of, 174, 177 

 Fowl-tuberculosis, 329 

 Frankel's instrument for obtaining 

 earth from depths, 238 

 method for cultivation of anaerobic 

 bacteria, 217, 218 

 for quantitative estimation of bac- 

 teria in soil, 238 

 Friedlander's bacillus pneumoniae, 287. 

 See also Bacillus capsulatus 

 mucosus. 

 Fungi, 41 



division of, 41 

 Furniture of sick-room, disinfection of, 

 180 



Gabbett's method for demonstration 

 of tubercle bacilli in sputum, 

 299 



Gartner's bacillus, 513 



Gaseous edema, 595- See also Edema, 

 gaseous. 



Gases, production of, by bacteria, 56 



Smith's method for determina- 

 tion, 56 



Gas-producing bacteria, 51 » 56 

 Gastro-intestinal tract as channel for 

 entrance of tubercle bacilli, 



3H 



Gelatin as a culture-medium, 190 

 advantages of, 190 

 bacteria in, 211, 212 

 glycerin-, method of imbedding, 151 

 growth, microtome sections cf, 212 

 liquefaction of, by bacteria, 54 

 puncture-cultures, various forms of, 

 212 

 Generation, spontaneous, doctrine of, 



17 

 Germ theory of disease, 25 

 Germicidal action of blood, productive 

 of immunity, 14 1 

 power of " formalin," 174, 177 

 relative, of methyl violet, 172 

 of pyoktanin, 172 

 value of reagents, determination of, 

 242-245 

 Germicides, antiseptic values of, 172 

 definition, 163 

 list of, 172 

 Germs in dust in atmosphere, 20 

 Glanders, 344 



bacillus of, 344. See also Bacillus 

 mallei. 

 Glass bench, 205 

 Glassware, sterilization of 164 

 Glycerin agar-agar as a culture-medium, 



193 . 

 Glycerin-gelatin, method of imbedding, 



151 



" Golden " staphylococcus, 249-254 

 Gonococci, cultivation of, 267 

 Gonococcus, 266 



as cause of gonorrhea, 269 

 discovery of, 28 

 in urethral pus, 267 

 Gonorrhea, communication of, to ani- 

 mals, 269 

 micrococcus of, 266 

 Gorden's modification of Van Ermen- 

 gem's method for staining 

 flagella, 162 

 Gram's method for cover-glass prepara- 

 tions, 155 

 for staining bacteria, bacteria not 

 stained by, 154 

 in sections of tissue, 152 

 solution, 153 

 Growth of bacteria, conditions in- 

 fluencing, 45. See also Bac- 

 teria, growth of, conditions 

 influencing. 

 Gruber's method for cultivation of 

 anaerobic bacteria, 217 



