INDEX. 



685 



Ehrlich's side chain theory, 269 

 Ehrlich-Weigert's aniline-methyl-violet 



solution, 29, 471 



method of staining the tubercle ba- 

 cillus, 30 



stain for syphilis bacilli, 495 

 Electric light in photomicrography, 107 

 Electricity, influence of, on bacterial 



growth, 162 



Eisner's method for detecting the ty- 

 phoid bacillus in water and faeces, 

 446 

 Emmerich's bacillus (B. ueapolitanus), 



529 



thermal death-point of, 155 

 experiments on rnicrococcus pneu- 

 monias crouposae, 341 

 Endocarditis, ulcerative, micrococcus 



pneumonise crouposae in, 401 

 Endospores, 16 



Enzymes produced by liquefying bac- 

 teria, 136 

 Eosin as a double stain, 28 



collodion in photographing bacteria, 



103 



Eosinophile cells, 237 

 Epidemics, Pasteur on the origin of, 290 

 Erlenmeyer flasks, 60, 63 

 Escherich's view that pseudo-diphther- 

 itic bacilli are distinct from the true 

 bacillus, 460 

 Esmarch's roll tubes, 76. 



tubes in water analysis, 628, 



630 



method of cultivating anaerobic bac- 

 teria, 84 



Essential oils, antiseptic power of, 202 

 Ether, action of, on bacillus tuberculosis, 



478 



antiseptic power of, 202 

 in experiments on animals, 99 

 Eugenol, antiseptic power of, 203 

 Euphorin, feeble germicidal activity of, 



204 



Eucalyptol, antiseptic power of, 203 

 Eucalyptus, antiseptic power of, 203 

 Excreta, disinfection of, 212, 217 



method of testing for the cholera 



spirillum, 598 

 Exhaustion theory of immunity, 249 



Expired air free from micro-organisms, 



622 

 Eye, inoculations into, 99 



FACULTATIVE anaerobics, 16, 18 



in stab cultures, 70 

 parasites, 15, 127, 221 

 saprophytes, 221 



Faeces, list of species of pathogenic bac- 

 teria found in, 663 

 Fallopian tubes free from bacteria in 



health, 654 



Farcy, symptoms of, 491 

 Fasching's capsule bacillus, 561 

 Feet, the, bacteria on, 649 

 Fennel, antiseptic power of, 203 

 Ferment lactique of Pasteur, 667 

 Fermentation by bacteria, 136 



of grape sugar in water sup- 

 plies, 535 



in liquid media, 68 

 putrefactive, 141 

 test for colon and typhoid bacilli in 



water, 445 

 tubes, 68 

 of urea, 140 

 viscous, 141 

 Ferments, soluble, produced by bacteria, 



143 

 Fermi and Pernossi on the properties of 



tetanus poison, 354 



Ferran's anticholeraic inoculations, 301 

 Ferret disease, bacillus of, 508 

 Ferric chloride, antiseptic value of, 

 189 

 sulphate, action of, on micrococcus 



pneumonise crouposae, 40") 

 antiseptic power of, 189 

 Filters, soluble, in analysis, 620 

 Filtration as a means of sterilizing, 58 

 Finger-nails, bacteria found under, 648 

 Finkler and Prior, spirillum of, 602 

 Fiocca's bacillus, 547 



method of staining spores, 32 

 Fire as a disinfectant, 212, 213 

 Fish, boiled, as a culture medium, 40 

 Flagella of bacteria, 24, 119 

 methods of staining, 32 

 of bacillus amylovorus, 576 

 campestris, 575 



