INDEX 



ABSCESS formation, 311 



bacteria of, 312-313 

 Acetous fermentation, 102 

 Acid-fast bacteria, 358-369 



classification of, 359 



of human origin, 360 



of butter and milk, 861 



of grass and manure, 364 



differential diagnosis, 365 



streptothrix, 367 

 Actinomycosis, 321 

 Aerobic organisms, 23 

 Agar,'l6 

 Air, bacteriology of, 76-91 



dust and bacteria, 76 



examination of, 73-75 



moisture and bacteria, 79 



of sewers, 82 



currents and bacteria, 84 



expired, 79-81 



of workshops, 85 



bacteria and gravity, 83 



of bakehouses, 86 



standard of bacteria in, 79, 91 



of railway tubes, 88, 90 



pathogenic bacteria in, 91 



of House of Commons, 88 



passages, bacteria in, 80 

 Alcohol, formation of, 96 

 Alcoholic fermentation, 96 

 Alexines, 412 



Alformant lamp for disinfection, 443 

 Algae in water, 35 

 Ammoniacal fermentation, 110 

 Amylolytic ferments, 95 

 Anaerobic organisms, 23 



methods of culture, 117-119 



in hydrogen, 117 



in glucose agar, 118 



in Franke!' s tube, 118 



in Buchner's tube, 118 



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Andrewes on air of central railway tube, 



90 



Aniline dyes, 455, 458 

 Antagonism of organisms, 30 

 Antibiosis, 29 

 Anthrax, 315-319 



clinical characters of, 315 



pathology of, 316 



spores of, 316 



bacillus of, 316 



in sewage, 177 



channels of infection, 317 

 Antiseptics, 433 



definition of, 433 



some of the chief, 439-444 

 Antitoxins, 405 



preparation of, 425 



use of, 429 



unit of, 428 



effect of, 430 



Appendix on technique, 453 

 Arthrospores, 12, 13 

 Artificial purification of water, 64-70 

 Ascospores, 14, 98 

 Asiatic cholera, 384 

 Association of organisms, 29 

 Attenuation of virulence, 31 

 Autoclave, 25 



BACILLUS, definition of, 88 

 aceti, 102 



acidi lactici, 105, 106, 196 

 anthracis, 316 

 aquatilis, 45 

 botulinus, 269 

 butyricus, 108-110 

 capillareus, 155 

 cloacae fluorescens, 155 

 colicommunis, 46-51, 56-60, 154, 466, 



477 

 tests for, 48-51, 466 



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