708 



INDEX. 



Wool-sorter's disease, 422, 430 



a pulmonary affection, 2."H 

 Woven underclothing, bacteria on, 649 

 Wurtz's method of identifying typhoid 

 bacilli in water supplies, 44-~> 



XYLOL for solution of Canada balsam, 28 



YELLOW fever, insusceptibility of negro 



to, 234 



cadavers, bacillus coli conmmnis 

 in the blood and organs of, 530 

 milk. 668 



Yersin's attenuated varieties of diph- 

 theria bacillus, oOD 

 description of the bacillus pestis, 563 



ZEA mays, bacterial diseases of, 575 



Zedvary, antiseptic power of, 203 

 "Zeitsckrift fur Hygiene," 8 

 Ziehl's carbol-fuchsin solution. 2!) 

 for bacillus lepra, 487 

 for bacillus tuberculosis, 469- 



471 



for the typhoid bacillus, 438 

 Ziehl-Nelson method of staining the tu- 

 bercle bacillus, 30, 36 

 Zinc chloride as an antiseptic and disin- 

 fectant, 195, 212 

 sulphate as a germicide, 196 

 Zooglea, 21 



formed by bacillus solanacearum, 571 



proteus mirabilis, 553 

 Zopf, classification of, 12 

 Zymogenic organisms, 14 



