696 



INDEX. 



Oxygen, essential for certain species of 



bacteria, 172 , 



influence of, on pigment production, 



133 



on spore formation, 12o 

 nascent, as a germicidal agent, 172 



PANHISTOPHYTON ovatum, 415 

 Paracresol, germicidal power of, 202 

 Paralysis, local, caused by diphtheritic 



inoculations, 452 

 Parasites, strict, 221 

 Parasitic bacteria, 15 

 Parietti's method of separating typhoid 



bacilli from water supplies, 444 

 Park and Beebe's observations on the 

 disappearance of the Loftier bacillus in 

 cases of diphtheria, 461 

 Parrot disease, micrococcus of, 419 

 Pasteur's bacteriological researches, 7 

 cholera des poules, 288 

 demonstration of living organisms in 



the atmosphere, 615 

 discovery of the causation of pe"- 



brine, 6 

 experiments on the attenuation of 



virus, 130 



on the attenuation of the mi- 

 crobe of fowl cholera, 502 

 on the etiology of rouget, 516 

 on the preservation of putresci- 



ble liquids, 5 

 flasks for liquid media, 63 

 inoculations of rabbits with hydro- 

 phobic virus, 99 

 solution, 40, 126 

 tubes for the collection of water 



samples, 627 



views on the origin of epidemics, 290 

 on rabies, 328 



on the influence of temperature 

 on the destruction of organ- 

 isms, 5 



Pasteur-Chamberland filter, 60 

 Pasteur Institute, production of diph- 

 theria antitoxin at, 316 

 of Naples, statistics of, 331 

 of Palermo, statistics of, 331 

 of Paris, statistics of, 331 

 of Turin, statistics of, 331 



Patchouly, antiseptic power of, 203 

 Pathogenic anaerobic bacteria, 80 



bacteria, list of species found in 



faeces, 6(5:; 

 in milk, 068 

 in the mouth, 652, 656 

 in the nose, <>.~,i; 

 in the soil, duration of vitality 



of. (i4o 

 in water, 6:56 



in water, detection of, 640 

 organisms, 14 



power of saprophytes dependent on 

 quantity and age of cultures and 

 site of the inoculation, 529 

 spirilla, 590 



Paulsen's capsule bacillus, 561 

 Pear blight, 575 



Pe'brine, silkworms infected with, 415 

 causation of, discovered by Pasteur, 



6 



not a bacterial disease ? 415 

 Pendesche Geschwur, 415 

 Pepper, antiseptic power of, 203 

 Peptone, a product of bacterial action, 



142 



Peptotoxin, 148 



Peritoneum, injections into, 98 

 Peritonitis, bacillus coli commuuis in, 



535 



Person, disinfection of the, 213 

 Petermann's experiments with filtered 



anthrax cultures, 428 

 Petri dishes, 76 



use of, in air analyses, 617 



use of, in water analyses, 630, 



631 



Petri 's sand filter for air analyses, 620 

 Petroleum lamps for incubating ovens, 



95 

 Pfeiffer's capsule bacillus, 561 



evidence of his bacillus being the 



specific cause of influenza, 464 

 researches into the toxins of cholera 



cultures, 599 

 views on the toxin of the typhoid 



bacillus, 367 



Pfeiffer and Issaeff's method of distin- 

 guishing the cholera spirillum from 

 other vibrios, 609 



