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Index 



Liquefaction of gelatin, 51 

 Liquid culture media, apparatus 



for filling tubes with, 178 

 sterilization of, 161 

 Listerism, 25 

 Litmus milk as culture medium, 



187 



Litmus-lactose-agar-agar, 491 

 Lobar pneumonia, 287 

 Lockjaw, 395. See also Tetanus. 

 Locomotory powers of bacteria, 30 

 Loffler's alkaline methylene-blue, 

 staining Bacillus diphtheriae 

 with, 420 

 blood -serum mixture as culture 



medium, 184 



method of cultivation of Bacil- 

 lus diphtheriae, 421 

 of detecting spirillum cholerse 



Asiaticse, 457 

 of staining, 144 



bacillus mallei, 366 

 flagella, 151 

 Lophotricha, 30 

 Lugol's solution, dilute, 145 

 Lumpy jaw, 376 

 Lungs, bacteria in, 65 

 Lustgarten's bacillus, 372 

 Lymphatics, introduction of bac- 

 teria into, 217 

 Lysin, 100 

 Lyssa, 412. See also Hydrophobia. 



MACROCYTASE, 104, 122 



Macrophages, 103 



Madura-foot, 385 



Malignant carbuncle, 473 

 edema, 599 

 pustule, 480 



Mallein, 370 



Mallory's -method of staining, 148 



Malta fever 592 



Manure, Bacillus tetani in, 395 



McFarland's method of cultiva- 

 tion of tetanus bacillus, 398 



Measurement of bacteria, 154 



Meat extract, preparation of 

 bouillon from, 177 



Meat-infusion, 176 



Meat-poisoning, 49, 243 



Meatus, external auditory, bac- 

 teria in, 63 



Medical and surgical contributions 

 to history of bacteria, 22 



Meningitis, cerebro-spinal, 279 

 diplococcus of, 279 



Merismopedia, 35 



Metachromatic granules, 30 



Method of holding tubes during 



inoculation, 193 

 of observing bacteria, 135 



in sections of tissue, 141 

 of plate culture, 195 

 of staining flagella, 150 

 Gram's, 145 

 Loffler's, 144 

 Pfeiffer's, 144 

 simple, 143 

 spores, 149 

 Methods, special, of securing pure 



cultures, 204 

 Methyl violet, 156 

 Meyer's syringe, 216 

 Micrococcus, 34, 35 

 catarrhalis, 284 

 cultivation, 285 

 morphology, 284 

 pathogenesis, 286 

 staining, 285 

 gonorrhoeas, 273 

 cultivation, 274 



Heiman's method, 279 

 Laitinen's method, 276 

 Turro's method, 275 

 Wertheim's method, 274 

 Wright's method, 276 

 Young's method, 275 

 distribution, 273 

 general characteristics, 273 

 immunization against, 278 

 isolation, 274 

 morphology, 274 

 pathogenesis, 277 

 staining, 274 

 toxic products, 276 

 vital resistance, 276 

 rnelitensis, 592 

 cultivation, 592 

 morphology, 592 

 pathogenesis, 593 

 staining, 592 

 pasteuri, 26 

 tetragenus, 581 

 cultivation, 582 

 isolation, 582 

 morphology, 581 

 pathogenesis, 583 

 staining, 582 

 Microcytase, 104, 122 

 Micromillimeter, 31 

 Micro-organismal energy, conse- 

 quence of, 46 

 Microphages, 103 

 Microscopic study of cultures, 207 

 Microspira, 36 



Migula's classification of bacteria, 

 27 



