INDEX 



595 



Bacteria, food supply of, 16 



higher, 14 



lower, 11 



microscopic examination of, 85 



morphological relations of, 2 



motility of, 7 



movements of, 19 



multiplication of, 4 



nitrifying, 23 



parasitic, 21 



pathogenic, action of, 149 

 effects of, 155 



saprophytic, 21 



separation of, 51 



species of, 23 



spore formation in (v. also Spores), 

 5, 56 



structure of, 3 



sulphur-containing, 9 



temperature of growth of, 18 



toxins of, 161 



variability among, 23 



virulence of, 150, 461 

 Bacterial ferments, 22, 168 



pigments, 10 



protoplasm, structure of, 8 



treatment of sewage, 139 

 Bactericidal powers of serum, 477 



substances, 477 

 Bacteriological diagnosis, 118 



examination of discharges, 116 

 Beer wort agar, 44 

 Beggiatoa, 15 



Behring on- immunity, 385, 468 

 Bile-salt media, 43 

 Bismarck-brown, 95 

 Blackleg, 396 

 Blackwater fever, 534 

 Blastophores (malaria), 529 

 Blood-agar (v. also Culture media), 



38 

 Blood, examination of, 68, 88 



in malarial fever, 521 



in relapsing fever, 438 



serum, coagulated, as medium, 40 

 Bone-marrow in leucocytosis, 156 

 Bordet's phenomenon, 477 

 Botulism, bacillus of, 393 

 Bouillon (v. also Culture media), 32 

 Bovine tuberculosis, 248 

 Bread paste, 47 

 Briegerand Boer, 166 



Fraenkel, 162 

 Buboes, 227 



Bubonic pest, 429 



Buchner on alexines, 500 



Bulloch's apparatus for anaerobic 



culture, 58 



Biitschli on bacterial structure, 9 

 Butter bacilli, acid fast, 253 



Calmette, 435, 462, 469, 471 

 Canon on influenza, 420 

 Cantani on influenza, 424 

 Capaldi and Proskauer, media of, 328 

 Capsules, staining of, 102 

 Carbol-fuchsin, 99 



-methylene-blue, 98 



-thionin-blue, 98 

 Carbolic acid as antiseptic, 147 

 Carroll's method of making anaerobic 



cultures, 60 



Carter on relapsing fever, 440 

 Cattle plague, 507 

 Cerebro- spinal fluid, examination by 



lumbar puncture, 68 

 Chamber-land and Koux, attenuation 



of b. anthracis, 460 

 Chamberland's filter, 70 

 Chemiotaxis, 20, 495 

 Chlorine as antiseptic, 144 

 Cholera, 399 



immunity against, 410 



inoculation of man with, 410 



methods of diagnosis of, 412 



preventive inoculation against, 412 



-red reaction, 404 

 Cholera spirillum, 400 

 distribution of, 402 

 inoculation with, 406 

 powers of resistance of, 405 

 relations to disease, 414 

 toxins of, 408 

 Cladothrices in soil, 132 

 Cladothrix, 15 



asteroides, 295 

 Clubs in actinomyces, 289 

 Cocci, characters of, 11 

 Collodion capsules, preparation of, 



123 



Colonies, counting of, 65 

 Comma bacillus, 399 

 Commission on tuberculosis, 248 



vaccination, 505 

 Complement, 478 



deviation of, 488 

 Conjunctivitis, 191 

 Conradi-Drigalski medium, 42 



