INDEX 



Abscess, chronic, the microbe of, 144 



Aceti, mycoderma, 474 



Achorion Schoenleinii 479 



Acid fermen-ation by bacterium aceti and 



mycoderma aceti, 125 

 Actinomycosis ; or ray fungus, 486 



disease of, 488 



granules of 491, 495 



nodules of, 492. 



clubs, 493 

 j^robic bacteria, 89 

 yii^rogenes capsulatus, 235 

 Agar- Agar : 



nutrient nature of, 35 



grape sugar, 36 



glycerine, 37 



slanting tubes, 44 



degrees of virulence of cholera cultures 

 of, 429 

 Air : _ 



contamination, how to avoid, 63 



examination of, 83 

 Albumose, how formed, 130 

 Alcoholic fermentations, 125, 473 

 Alkali albumen, coagulation of, 196 

 Alkaloids : 



cholin, 129 



neurin, 129 



cadaverin-formation of, 129 

 Ammonium carbonate, formation of, 125 

 Amoeba coli, 502 



sporidia, 515 

 Amylobacter, bacillus of, 391 

 Anaerobic : 



cultivation, methods of, 86 



bacteria, 8g 



bacilli, 369 — 403 

 Aniline dyes : 



importance of, 9 



list of the most useful in the examina- 

 tion of animal tissues, 13 



oil for preparing dyes, 13 



watery solution of, 12 



animalculi found in London waters, 81 



Animals, food : 



tuberculous disease among, 358 



effects of food derived from, 358 



in cattle and swine, 358 

 Antagonism amongst bacteria, 527 

 Antheridia (fungi), 486 

 Anthracis, bacillus of, 271 

 Anthrax : 



microbes of malignant, 27 1 et seq. 



spores of. 283 



rag-sorter^', 292 

 Arthro spores in bacteria, log 

 Ascococcus microbes, 140 

 Ascogoninm, nature of, 480 

 Ascomycetes, an order of fungi, 477 

 Ascospore, the mother-cell, 472 

 Aspergillus, fungi, 480 : 



glaucus, 482 



flavescens, 482 



fumigatus, 482 



niger, 482 

 Asexual and sexual spore- formation, 4B0 

 Aurens, vibrio, 409 

 Autoclave, description and use of, \\ 



B 



Bacillus : 



typhoid fever, 23, 235 

 vibrio cholera; Asiaticx, 23 

 in water, 75 

 coli, 188, 224 



-coli in London waters, 80 

 radicicola, 91 

 termophilus, 95 

 tetanus, 121 et seq., 181, 

 enteritidis sporangenes, 121 et seq. 

 butyricus, 121 et seq. 

 of Friedlander, 157 

 leptothrix of, 164 

 subtitis of, 165, 178 

 vacuoles of, 166 

 leptothrix filaments, 168 

 buccalis, 170 

 megaterium, 17a 



