680 



INDEX. 



Behring's discovery of the immunization 



of large animals against tetanus, 356 



serum for tetanus, strength and doses 



of, 357 

 standard of diphtheritic antitoxin, 



313 

 Belfonti's experiments on micrococcus 



pneumonia; crouposse, 341 

 Benzene, germicidal power of, 198 

 Benzoic acid, antiseptic value of, 183 

 Benzo-naphthol, no germicidal power, 



206 



Beta-naphthol, antiseptic -power of, 206 

 Binary division of bacteria, 120 

 Biological classification of bacteria, 13 

 Biskra button, micrococcus of, 415 

 Bismarck brown as a stain, 25 



for staining anthrax bacilli, 424 

 Blackleg, 347, 585 

 Bladder, urinary, free from bacteria in 



health, 654 



Blood, alkalinity of, as affecting immu- 

 nity, 236 



free from bacteria in health. 664 

 germicidal power of, 236 

 of typhoid patients does not yield 



cultures, 434 

 serum as a culture medium, -'57 



germicidal powers of, 208, 257 

 immunizing value of, 313 

 mixture, Loffler 's, 48 

 solidification of, 57 

 solidified, streak cultures on, 77 

 sterilization of, 57 

 Sternberg's method of collect- 

 ing, 38 



Blood serum as a medium of growth for . 

 bacillus A of Booker, 555 

 bacillus of acne contagiosa of 



horses, 557 



bacillus anthracis, 426 

 bacillus coli communis, 531 

 bacillus endocarditidis griseus, 



556 



bacillus enteritidis, 520 

 bacillus erysipelatos suis, 513 

 bacillus of Friedlander, 397 

 bacillus hydrophilus fuscus, 523 

 bacillus mallei, 491 

 bacillus cedematis maligni, 582 



Blood serum as a medium of growth for: 

 bacillus pestis, 563 

 bacillus of purpura hsemorrhag- 



ica (Baoes), 558 



bacillus of purpura hsemorrhag- 

 ica (Tizzoni and Giovannini), 

 558 



bacillus of swine plague, Mar- 

 seilles, 509 

 bacillus tetani, 580 

 bacillus tuberculosis, 474, 475 

 bacillus typhi abdominalis, 439 

 micrococcus gonorrhoeas, 393 

 micrococcus Manfredi, 413 

 proteus hominis capsulatus, 519 

 proteus of Karlinski, 552 

 proteus lethalis, 555 

 proteus septicus, 554 

 spirillum cholerse asiaticse, 596 

 spirillum of Finkler and Prior, 



603 

 Bluchers apparatus for an atmosphere of 



hydrogen, 87 

 Blue milk, 668 



rays of spectrum, germicidal power 



of, 161 



Bonn's thernio-regulator, 90 

 Boiling in water, as a disinfectant, 212, 



213 

 Booker's bacillus B, probably identical 



with bacillus lactis aerogenes, 536 

 Boracic acid, action of, on bacteria, 182 

 Borden's method of photographing by oil 



light, 111 

 Bordoni-Uffreduzzi on the bacteria of the 



human skin, 648 

 bacillus of, from the marrow of 

 the bones of a leper, probably 

 not identical with bacillus 

 leprse, 487 

 Boric acid, action of, on micrococcus 



pneumonise crouposae, 405 

 Botkin's apparatus for an atmosphere of 



hydrogen, 87 

 bacillus butyricus, 139 

 Bougies of the Chamberland filter, 59, 



60 

 Bouillon as a culture medium, 41 



for bacillus aerogenes capsula- 

 tus. 589 



