INDEX. 



ABBOTT'S method of cultivation of 



typhoid bacillus, 489 

 Abscess, tuberculous, 326 

 Absorption of atmospheric oxygen 



in anaerobic cultures, 211 

 Acid, taurocholic, 508 



tuberculinic, 331 

 Acid-resisting bacteria, 349 

 Acids, production of, 51 

 Actinodiastase, 103 

 Actinomyces, 376 

 bo vis, 376 



cultivation, 378 

 distribution, 376 

 lesions, 383 

 morphology, 376 

 pathogenesis, 381 

 virulence, 381 

 farcinica, 390 

 cultivation, 391 

 morphology, 390 

 pathogenesis, 391 

 virulence, 392 

 Madurse, 385 

 cultivation, 386 

 cultural characteristics, 388 

 lesions, 387 

 morphology, 386 

 Actinomycosis, 376 



communication of, to man, 383 

 Acute contagious conjunctivitis, 



589 



Adami and Chapin's method for 

 isolation of typhoid bacillus, 493 

 Addiment, 100, 121 

 Adhesive preparations, 204 

 Aerobes, 39 

 Aerogens, 46 



Agar-agar as culture media, 180 

 blood, as culture media, 182 

 culture, 203 



glycerin, as culture media, 182 

 preparation of, 181 



Ravenel's method, 181 

 Agglutination, 125 



Widal reaction of, 505. See 



also Widal reaction. 

 Agglutinins, 126 

 Aggressins, 123 



627 



Air, bacteria in, 38 



quantitative estimation, 228 

 by Hesse's method, 228 

 by Petri's method, 229 

 by Sedgwick's method, 



230 



bacteriology of, 227 

 displacement of, by inert gases, 



in anaerobic cultures, 208 

 of sick-room, disinfection of, 



167 

 withdrawal of, in anaerobic 



cultures, 208 

 Air-examination, Petri's sand 



filter for, 229 

 Sedgwick's expanded tube for, 



232 



Alexin, 102, 105, 121 

 Algge, 27 

 Alkali-albuminate, Deycke's, as 



culture media, 185 

 Alkalies, production of, 51 

 Alkaline blood-serum as culture 



medium, 185 

 Amboceptor, 121, 122 

 Amebadiastase, 103 

 Amebic dysentery, 529 

 Amphitricha, 30 

 Anaerobes, 39 

 facultative, 40 

 optional, 40 

 Anaerobic bacteria, cultivation of, 



208 



by absorption of atmos- 

 pheric oxygen, 211 

 by displacement of air, 208 

 by exclusion of atmospheric 



oxygen, 212 

 by formation of vacuum, 



208 

 by reduction of oxygen, 



211 



by withdrawal of air, 208 

 cultures, Botkin's apparatus for 



making, 210 

 Buchner's method of making, 



211 



Frankel' s method of making, 

 209 



