INDEX. 



491 



Koch's apparatus for coagulating I 

 and sterilizing .blood-serum, 



133 

 method of determining the germi- 



cidal value of reagents, 178 

 new tuberculin, 231-236 



injection of, in man, 234 

 steam apparatus for sterilization 



of culture-medium, 108 

 syringe, 159 



Koplick's bacillus, 476-478 

 Kiihne's carbol-methylene blue, 



253 



LENSES, high-power, use of, 87 

 low-power, use of, 87 

 oil-immersion, use of, 87 

 Leprosy, 241 

 anesthetic, 247 

 bacillus of, 242 

 cause of, 241 



discovery of, 28 

 nodes of, 246 

 Leptothrix, 33, 39 

 Leuconostoc, 38 

 Levelling apparatus for pouring 



plate-cultures, 140 

 Liborius' method of making anaer- 

 obic cultures, 153 

 Life, spontaneous generation of, 



doctrine of, 18 



Ligatures, disinfection of, 116, 117 

 Light, influence of, on growth of 



bacteria, 46 



selection of, in study of bacteria 

 by means of the microscope, 

 87 

 Liquid culture-media, development 



of bacteria in, 147 

 Liquids, sterilization of, HI 

 Listerism, 182 

 origin of, 27 

 Litmus milk as a culture-medium, 



/35 

 Loffler's alkaline methylene-blue, 



96 

 blood-serum mixture, 286 



as a culture-medium, 133 

 method of staining flagella, 101 



Loffier's method of staining sec- 

 tions, 95 



Lugol's solution, dilute, for stain- 

 ing bacteria in tissue, 97 



Lymphocytes, 71 



MADURA-FOOT, 266 

 cause of, 267 

 streptothrix of, 268 

 Malignant edema, 459 

 Mallein, 254 



injections of, in glanders, 254 

 Measles, 451 

 bacillus of, 451 

 cultures of, 452 

 discovery of, 29 

 staining of, 451 

 Meat-infusion, 125 

 Meat-poisoning, cause of, 51 

 Merismopedia, 36, 37 

 Methods of observing bacteria, 86 

 Methyl-violet, antiseptic value of, 

 destructive and inhibitory, 

 114 

 Meyer's bacteriological syringe, 



'59 



Micrococci, 36 



Micrococcus gonorrhceae, 201 

 tetragenus, 200, 443 

 cultures of, 444 

 pathogenesis of, 445 

 staining of, 444 



Micro-organisms, living, hanging- 

 drop method of examina- 

 tion, 88 



methods of destroying, 105 

 on the skin, 183 

 Microscope, essential features of, 



86 

 Microtome sections of gelatin 



growths, 149 



Milk as a culture-medium, 135 

 as a medium for the cultivation 

 of the bacillus diphtherias, 

 291 



bacteria in, 57 



peptonization of, by bacteria, 56 

 Mineral salts, effect of, in bacterial 

 cultures, 49 



