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INDEX. 



Alkaloids, putrefaction, 71 



Alum carmin, 476 



American swine plague, 252 



Amido-acids, 72 



Amins, 72 



Ammonia, demonstration, 78 



formation, 69 



Anaerobe, new pathologic, 344 

 Anaerobes, 305 



as agents in ripening of cheese, 

 349 



carbon dioxid and, 43 



facultative, 42 



fermentation and, 351 



in retting of flax and hemp, 

 351 



obligate, 41 



spore-formation, 51 



sulphuretted hydrogen and, 



44 

 Anaerobic cultures, 488 



producers of butyric acid, 345 

 Angina, diphtheric, 397 



ulcerative, 473 

 Anilin fuchsin, 475 



gentian-violet, 475 

 Animal experiments, 489 



serum, collection, 105 

 Anthrax, 305, 307; Pis. 34-36 



spores, resistance, 52, 53 



symptomatic, 340; PI. 45 

 Anti-bodies, 94 

 Antiricin, action, 100 

 Antisepsis, albumin and, 39 



concentration necessary for, 

 38 



definition, 37 

 Antitoxic sera, value, 102 

 Antitoxins, 99 



action, 101 



and toxins, mutual action, 99 



normal, 102 



origin, 101 



Aroma-producing bacillus, 320 

 Aromatic metabolic products, 



79 

 Arthrospores, 25 



staining, 479 



Ascitic fluid as medium, 485 

 Ascococcus Billrothii, 179 



cantabridgensis, 179 



Asepsis, albumin and, 39 



Behring's test, 38 



concentration necessary for, 38 



definition, 37 



test, 38 



Attenuation, 37 

 Autopsy, 489 



BACILLUS, 124, 125, 304 



acidi lasvolactici, 224 



acidi paralactici, 224 



aerobic, 304 



common characteristics, 306 

 further sporulating varie- 

 ties, 330 

 new, 259 



aerogenes sputigenus capsu- 



latus, 228 

 vesicae, 255 



alvei, 306, 345 



amylobacter navicula, 351 

 v. Tieghem, 351 



amylovorus, 471 



amylozyme, 348 



anaerobic, 305. See also An- 

 aerobes. 



annulatus, 264 



anthraci similis, 315 



anthracis, 305, 307; Pis. 34- 



36 



demonstration, 314 

 diagnosis, differential, 314 

 polar germination in, 27 

 spores, 312 

 sporulation, 26 

 without spores, 311 



anthracoides, 315 



aphthosus, 252 



aquatilis communis, 264 



arborescens, 271 



argenteophosphorescens, 370 

 liquefaciens, 370 



aroma-producing, 320 



aterrimus, 305, 328 



bernensis, 320 



botulinus, 306, 337 



butyricus, 305, 322, 346; PI. 

 38 



cadaveris butyricus, 345 



capsulatus aerogenes, 344 



