CONTENTS 



List of Text and Reference Books 

 Apparatus and Material 

 Laboratory ^LvxIMS 

 Introduction 



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EXERCISES 



I. Cleaning glassware 



II. Plugging tubes and flasks and sterilizing the glassware . 



III. The preparation of bouillon 



IV. The preparation of gelatin and agar 



V. Inoculating tubes of bouillon, agar, and gelatin 

 VI. The examination of cultures 

 VII. Making and staining cover-glass preparations, and for- 

 mulae for staining solutions 

 VIII. Making plate and Esmarch roll cultures 

 IX. The examination of plate cultures and the making of 



subcultures from colonies . 

 X. The preparation of certain differential and special media 

 XI. Inoculating special media and examining cultures . 

 XII. The examination of cultures on special media 



XIII. The examination of cultures (continued) 



XIV. The classification of bacteria . 



XV. The morphology of streptococcus, micrococcus, and 

 sarcina 

 XVI. The morphology of bacillus . 

 XVII. The morphology of bacterium and spirillum 

 XVIII. Staining spores 



XIX. Staining the flagella on motile bacteria . 

 XX. Staining tubercle bacteria (bacilli) 

 XXI. A study of certain saprophytic bacteria . 

 XXII. A study of bacteria in milk 

 XXIII. A study of bacteria in water 

 XXIV. A study of certain pyogenic bacteria 



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