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INDEX 



Bacteria, separation of, 57 



species of, 24 



spore formation in (see also 

 Spores), 5, 62 



staining of, 101 



structure of, 3 



sulphur-containing, 10 



temperature of growth of, 19 



toxins of, 193 



variability among. 25 



virulence of, 182, 554 

 Bacterial ferments, 23, 201 



pigments, 11 



protoplasm, structure of, 9 



treatment of sewage, 163 

 Bactericidal methods, 127 



powers of serum, 570 



substances, 571 

 Bacteriological diagnosis, 139 



examination of discharges, 138 

 Bacterium acidi lactici, 169 

 Bainbridge on agglutination, 122 

 Basidiomycetes, 529 

 Beer wort agar, 52 

 Bees, poisons of, 202 

 Beggiatoa, 16 

 Behring on immunity, 442 

 Beraneck tuberculin, 296 

 Besredka on anaphylaxis, 599 

 Bile-salt media, 50 

 Bilious fevers, 677 

 Bismarck-brown, 102 

 Blackleg, 454 

 Blackwater fever, 639 

 Blastomycosis, 544 

 Blastophores (malaria), 632 

 Blood-agar (see also Culture media), 



43 

 Blood, examination of, 74, 95 



in malarial fever, 624 



in relapsing fever, 507 



samples, removal of, from rabbits, 

 etc., 131 



serum, coagulated, as medium, 41 

 Blood-smeared agar, 43 

 Bone-marrow in leucocytosis, 188 

 Bordet and Gengou's medium for 

 whooping-cough bacillus, 44 

 Bordet and Gengou on whooping- 

 cough, 485 ctseq. 

 Bordet's phenomenon, 571 

 Botulism, bacillus of, 451 



toxin of, 566 

 BouiUon (s&e also Culture media), 33 



Bovine tuberculosis, 284 

 Bread paste, 47 

 Brieger and Boer, 199 

 Brieger and Fraenkel, 193 

 Buboes, 268 

 Bubonic pest, 488 

 Buchner on alexins, 594 

 Buchner's anaerobic tubes, 67 

 Bulloch's apparatus for anaerobic 



culture, 64 



Biitschli on bacterial structure, 10 

 Butter bacilli, acid- fast, 291 



Calmette, 499, 525, 556, 562 



ophthalmo-reaction of, 297 

 Canary fever, 688 

 Canon on influenza, 480 

 Cantani on influenza, 484 

 Capaldi and Proskauer, media of, 



373 



Capsules, staining of, 110 

 Carbol-fuchsin, 106 



-gentian-violet stain. 106 



-methylene-blue, 105 



-thionin-blue, 106 

 Carbolic acid as antiseptic, 179 

 Carriers, cholera, 466 



diphtheria, 422 



in cerebro-spinal meningitis, 254 



paratyphoid, 395 



typhoid, 380 



yellow fever, 676 



Carroll's method of making anae- 

 robic cultures, 67 

 Carter on relapsing fever, 509 

 Castellani on frambuisia, 525 

 Cattle plague, 607 

 Cerebro-spinal fluid, examination 



by lumbar puncture, 75 

 Chagas on trypanosomiasis, 666 

 Chamberland and Roux, attenuation 



of b. anthracis, 553 

 Chamberland's filter, 76 

 Charbon, 340 



symptomatique, 454 

 Chemio taxis, 21, 590 

 Chitral fever, 688 

 Chlamydospores, 528 

 Chlamydozoa, 623 



in trachoma, 265 

 Chlorine as antiseptic, 176 

 Cholera, 459 



anti-sera, 471 



carriers, 466 



