462 



INDEX. 



Silver nitrate, 250 



wire in surgery, 266 

 Size of bacteria, 4, 121 

 Skatol, produced by bacteria, 129 

 Skin, bacteria of, 160 



disinfection, 161; 265 

 Sleeping sickness, 170 

 Slides, forceps for, 27 



glass, 27 

 Small-pox, bacteria found in, 437 



cytoryctus variolas, 422 



inoculation of, 10 



vaccination for, 200 

 Smear-culture, 80 



preparations, 26 

 Smegma bacilli, 33, 163 

 Snake-venom, 189 

 Sodium hydroxide, for neutralization 



of culture media, 64, 65, 66 

 Soft chancre, bacillus of (see Bacillus 



of soft chancre) 

 Soil, bacteria of, 135, 176 

 Solutions, normal, 66 

 Species of bacteria, 117 

 Spirilla in the mouth, 161 



for class demonstration, 114 



in water, 403 



S. dentium, 274 



S. milleri, 326 



S. plicatile, S. rugula, S. volutans, 

 274 



S. sputigenum, 274 



vibrio aquatiles, vibrio Schuyl- 



kiliensis, 403 

 Spirillum, definition, 4, 118, 120 



choleras Asiatici, accidental infec- 

 tion of laboratory workers, 



395 

 description of, morphology, 



cultural characters, patho- 



genesis, 317 



detection of, in feces, 322 

 diagnosis of, 322 

 disseminated through water, 



145 



in milk, 152 



killed by the hydrochloric acid 

 of the gastric juice, 164, 393 



pathogenic properties for exper- 

 iment animals, 393 



portals of entry into the body, 



395 

 reported detection of, in water, 



145 

 vaccine for, 394 



Spirillum, dentiumj 274 



of Deneke, 402 



of Finkler and Prior, 401 



of Metchnikoff, 400 



of Miller, 402 



of Obermeier, 404 



of Vincent, 275 



plicatile, 274 



relapsing fever, 404 



rubrum, 274 



rugula, 274 



sputigenum, 274 



tyrogenum, 402 



undula, 274 



volutans., 274 

 Spirochaeta, definition, 120 



dentium, 274 



Obermeieri, 404 



of syphilis, 405 



pallida, 405 



plicatile, 274 



refringens, 406 

 Splenic fever (see Anthrax) 



puncture in typhoid fever, 378 

 Spontaneous generation, 3, 13 

 Spores .arresting and resisting forms of 

 bacteria, 3 



discovery of, by Cohn, 14 



reproduction of bacteria by, 122 



arthro, 123 



compared with vegetative cells, 



122 



definition of, 3 



discovery of, 14 



endogenous, 122 



of moulds, 280 



of the malarial parasite, 416, 418 



resistance to heat and other 

 germicides, 123 



staining, 48 



Sporotricha or sporothrix, 232 

 Sputum, disinfection of, 34, 259 



method of making preparations 

 of, 34, 1 08 



rules for collection of, 34, 107 



staining of, 34 

 Stab-culture, 78 

 Staining anilin-oil, water solution, 30 



bacteria in tissues, 37, 41 



blood. 45 



Hasting's method, 46 

 Nocht's, Goldboron's, Wright's, 



47 

 capsules, 49 



Hiss' method, Welch's, 49 



