486 



INDEX. 



Bacteriologic examination of soil, 



174 



of water, 169 

 Bacteriology, history of, 17 

 Bacterium, 38 



definition of, 30 

 Beef-peptone in preparation of 



bouillon, 125 

 Beggiatoa, 39 

 Benches, glass, for use in making 



plate-cultures, 142 

 Binary division, 33 



results of, 33 



Birds, susceptibility of, to experi- 

 mental inoculation with 

 tubercle bacilli, 239 

 Black-leg, 453. See Anthrax, 



symptomatic. 

 Black vomit of yellow fever, cause 



of, 404 



Blood agar-agar, 131 

 Blood-serum, alkaline, 133 

 as a culture-medium, 131 

 Koch's apparatus for coagulating 



and sterilizing, 133 

 mixture, Loffler's, 133 

 therapy, discovery of, 29 

 Body-juices, antibactericidal action 



of, 77 



Bordoni, bacillus of, 243 

 Botkin's apparatus for making 

 anaerobic plate - cultures, 

 156 



Bottle for cultivating tetanus- 

 bacillus, 278 

 Bouillon as a culture-medium, 



124 



preparation of, 124 

 free from dextrose as a culture- 

 medium, 137 

 Brown ian movement, 32 

 Bubonic plague, 433 

 antitoxin of, 441 

 bacillus of, 435 

 cultures of, 435 

 discovery of, 29 

 juthogenesis of, 437, 438 

 forms of, 434 

 serum, 441 



Buchner's -method of making an- 

 aerobic cultures, 153 



CAPILLARY TUBES for securing 

 definite quantities of blood 

 in typhoid test, 381-390 

 Carbol-fuchsin, 100 

 Carbolic acid, value of, as a germi- 

 cide, 118 



Carmin and hematoxylon, efforts 

 to facilitate observation of 

 bacteria by means of, 90 

 Catgut, sterilization of, 116 

 Celloidin as an imbedding agent, 94 

 Cells, phagocytic, 71 

 Charbon symptomatique, 453. 

 See Anthrax, symptom- 

 atic. 



Cheese-poisoning, cause of, 51 

 Chemotaxis, 71 

 negative, 75 

 Chicken-cholera, 409 

 bacillus of, 409 

 cultures of, 410 

 pathogenesis of, 411 

 pneumococcus of, discovery of, 



28 

 Cholera, 311 



Asiatic, spirillum of, 312 

 cultures of, 315-318 

 staining of, 315 



effect of vaccination in preven- 

 tion of, 325 



hog, 413 



immunity to, attempts to pro- 

 duce, 324 

 reasons for, 320 

 infectious nature of, 312 

 spirillum of, in drinking-water, 



means of detecting, 323 

 pure cultures of, Schottelius* 



method of securing, 316 

 toxic products of the metab- 

 olism of, 319 

 theories as to the cause of, 321, 



322 



Cilia, 31 



Circulation, modes of entrance of 

 bacteria into. 62 



