Index 



701 



Liquefaction of gelatin, 51 



Liquid culture media, apparatus 



for filling tubes with, 197 

 sterilization of, 179 

 Listerism, 26 

 Litmus, method of preparing, 206 



milk as culture medium, 206 

 Litmus-lactose-agar-agar, 542 

 Lobar pneumonia, 328 

 Lockjaw, 450. See also Tetanus. 

 Locomotory powers of bacteria, 31 

 Lo filer's alkaline methyl ene-blue, 

 staining Bacillus diphtherias 

 with, 473 

 blood-serum mixture as culture 



medium, 203 



method of cultivation of Bacil- 

 lus diphtheriae, 474 

 of detecting spirillum cholerae 



Asiaticae, 506 



of differentiating typhoid 

 bacillus by means of mala- 

 chite green, 546 

 of staining, 160 



bacillus mallei, 413 

 flagella, 167 

 Lophotricha, 31 

 Lugol's solution, dilute, 161 

 Lumpy jaw, 431 

 Lungs, bacteria in, 66 

 Lymphatics, introduction of bac- 

 teria into, 237 

 Lysin, 101 

 Lyssa, 465. See also Hydrophobia. 



MACCONKEY'S medium for detect- 

 ing colon bacillus in water, 574 



Macrocytase, 108, 126 



Macrophages, 106 



Madura-foot, 440 



Malignant carbuncle, 523 

 edema, 657 

 pustule, 530 



Mallein, 417 



Mallory's method of staining, 164 



Malta fever, 649 



bacteriologic diagnosis, 650 

 treatment, 651 



Manure, Bacillus tetani in, 450 



McFarland's method of cultiva- 

 tion of tetanus bacillus, 453 



Measurement of bacteria, 172 



Meat extract, preparation of 

 bouillon from, 196 



Meat-infusion, 195 



Meat -poisoning, 50, 265 



Meatus, external auditory, bac- 

 teria in, 63 



Medical and surgical contributions 



to history of bacteria, 22 

 Mediterranean fever, 649 

 Meningitis, cerebrospinal, 318 



diplococcus of, 318 

 Meningococcus, 318 

 Merismopedia, 36 

 Metachromatic granules, 30 

 Method of enumerating bacteria 



in fluids, 255 

 of holding tubes during inocula 



tion, 212 

 of observing bacteria, 151 



in sections of tissue, 157 

 of plate culture, 214 

 of staining flagella, 167 

 Gram's, 161 

 Loffler's, 160 

 Pfeiffer's, 160 

 simple, 159 

 spores, 1 66 

 Methods, special, of securing pure 



cultures, 223 

 Methyl violet, 174 

 Meyer and Bergell's typhoid serum, 



562 



Meyer's syringe, 236 

 Micrococcus, 35, 36 

 catarrhalis, 325 

 cultivation, 326 

 morphology, 325 

 pathogenesis, 327 

 staining, 326 

 gonorrhceae, 3 1 1 

 cultivation, 313 



Heiman's method, 314 

 Laitinen's method, 314 

 Wertheim's method, 313 

 Wright's method, 314 

 Young's method, 313 

 distribution, 311 

 general characteristics, 3 1 1 

 immunization against, 316 

 isolation, 313 

 morphology, 312 

 pathogenesis, 315 

 staining, 3 1 2 

 toxic products, 314 

 vital resistance, 314 

 melitensis, 649 

 cultivation, 649 

 morphology, 649 

 pathogenesis, 651 

 staining, 649 



thermal death point, 649 

 pasteuri, 26 

 tetragenus, 638 

 cultivation, 639 

 isolation, 639 



