492 



INDEX 



Dysentery, 404 



Earth temperatures and disease, 145, 



308 

 Effluents, 168, 175 

 Eisner's medium, 467 

 Endospores, 12, 14 

 Enteric fever {see typhoid), 298-304 

 Enzymes, 94 

 Equifex disinfeetor, 438 

 Examination, bacteriological — technique 

 of, 453-463 



air, 73 



cholera, 387 



diphtheria, 481 



fish, 485 



ice-cream, 485 



leprosy, 398 



malarial blood, 485 



meat, 485 



milk, 473-481 



oysters, 484 



sewage, 485 



soO, 117 



tetanus, 481 



typhoid, 482 



tubercle, 482 



urine, 485 



water, 463-473 



yeasts, 97 

 Extracellular poisons, 408 

 External conditions, effect of, on bac- 

 teria, 15 



Fermentation, 92-115 



kinds of, 94 



acetous, 102 



alcohoUc, 96-102, 198 



ammoniacal, 110 



butyric, 107, 197 



lactic acid, 104, 196 

 Ferments, organised, 94 



unorganised, 94 



chromogenic, 200 



curdling, 104, 197 



bitter, 112-199 



shmy, 199 



soapy, 200 

 Films, 100 

 Filters, domestic, 71 



sterilisation of, 72 

 Filtration of milk, 228-230 



method of air-examination, 74 

 Filtration of water, 65-72 

 Filter-beds, 65 



Firth and Horrocks on pathogenic 

 bacteria in soil, 148 



Fission, 12 



Fixing specimens, 475 



Flagella, 11 



staining, 461 

 Food, bacteria in, 178, 253 

 Formaldehyde and formalin, 443 

 Forms of bacteria, 6 

 Foulerton on pollution of water, 63 



on bacteria in oysters, 260 



on streptothrix group, 367 

 Fowler on bacterial treatment of sewage, 



174 

 Fractional sterilisation, 24 

 Frankel's pneumococcus, 320 

 Frankland on bacteria in water, 37 



on filtration of water, 65 

 Freezing, effect of, on bacteria, 18 

 Friedlander's pneumo-bacillus, 320 



Gas, production of, 406 

 Gathering-ground, 34 

 Gelatine, 16 



carbol, 466 



hquefaction of, 457 

 Gemmation, 98 

 Gentian-violet, anUine, 455 

 Germicidal temperatures, 23-25 

 Germicides, 439-444 

 Gilbert on nitrification, 134 

 Ginger-beer plant, 137 

 Glanders, 323 

 Gonorrhoea, 314 

 Gram's method of staining, 458 



NicoUe's modification of, 459 

 Gravity, influence on bacteria, 83 

 Gypsum block, 98 



H^MOCYTOZOA, 372 



Hsemamoeba, 372 



Haldane on ventilation of workshops, 



85 

 Hanging-drop cultivations, 455 

 Hansen's method of dilution, 99 

 Heat as sterihser, 23-25 

 Heredity, 284 



Hesse's method of air examination, 74 

 Hewlett and others on bacteriological 



examination of water, 470-473 

 High yeasts, 101 

 Higher bacteria, 6, 8 

 Horrocks and Firth on soil and disease, 



148 



