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INDEX 



Bacillus, proteus vulgaris, 144 



pyocj'aneus, 177 



Welch's, 181 

 Bacteria, fharacter of, 14 



cultivation of, 27 



definition of, 13, 14 



effect of disinfectants and 

 antiseptics on, 30 

 of heat and cold on, 30 



important pathogenic species, 

 49 



in food poisoning, 143 



in milk, 134 



incubation of, 29 



methods of studying, 22 



motihty, 17 



relation of, to destructive in- 

 fluences, 30 

 to disease, 48 



spore formation, 17 



staining of, 25 

 Bacterial vaccines, 77, 78 

 Bactericidal serum, 09 

 Bacteriology, definition of, 13 



historic, 11 

 Bacteriolysins, nature and role of, 



08 

 Behring, discovery of diphtheria 



antitoxin, 97 

 Bichlorid of mercury, effect of, on 



bacteria, 37 

 Blood, defensive role of blood- 

 serum, 00 



parasite of malaria in, 128 

 Blood- stains, test for, 75 

 Blown cans, 145 

 Boiling water for disinfection, 



154 

 Boils, treatment, with bacterial 



vaccines, 79, 113 

 Bronchopneumonia, 100 

 Budding, definition of, 13 



Cy-LMETTE test for tuberculous 

 infection, 94 



Cancer, relation of bacteria to, 49 



Carbolic acid, effect of, on bac- 

 teria, 38 



Carriers in the transmission of 

 disease, 50 



Cellulitis, 52 



Chancre in syphihs, 119 



Chicken-pox, quarantine in, 03 



Chickens, immunity to tetanus, 

 04 



Chloramine-T as disinfectant, 41 



Chlorid of lime, effect of, on bac- 

 teria, 39 



Chlorin in disinfection of water, 

 39, 149 



Cholera, bacteriology of, 88 

 carried by water, 147 

 quarantine in, 03 

 spirillum, 88 

 treatment of, 79 



Coccus, definition of, 15 



Cold, effect of, on bacteria, 30 

 on leukocytes, 07 



Colon bacillus, 174 



in food poisoning, 144 

 in sanitary water examina- 

 tions, 151 



Colostrum, role of, in transmis- 

 sion of immunity, 05 



Complement, role of, 70 



Cow-pox, 124 



Creolin, effect of, on bacteria, 38 



Culex in relation to malaria, 58 



Cultures, method of making, 27 



Cytolysin, nature of, 09 



Daktx's solution, 41 

 Davaine, anthrax discoveries, 11 

 Delousing, 109 

 Dengue, virus of, 127 



