INDEX. 



357 



Vaginitis, gonorrheal, 257 



Van Ermengem's method for staining 



flagella, 47 

 Vegetative forms of bacteria, 1 1 1 

 Venom of snakes, 164 

 Vibrio aquatilis, 327 



Berolinensis, 326 



definition, 109 



Metchnikovii, 324 



proteus, 325 



rugula, 229 



Schuylkiliensis, 327 

 Vibrion septique, 268 

 Villemin, 12 

 Vincent, bacillus of, 228 

 Vinegar, bacteria in, 5 

 Violet, gentian-, 28, 30 



methyl-, 200 

 Virulence of bacteria, 115, IS7 



Warmth, effect on growth of bacteria, 

 114 



Water, bacillus coli communis in, 132 

 typhosus, 131 

 bacteria of, 126 



conveyed by, 125, 153 

 filtration, 127 

 ground-, 125 



infections carried by, 125 

 number of bacteria in, 128 

 pathogenic bacteria in, 126, 131 

 purification by ozone, 128 

 samples of, 97, 128 

 self -purification, 126 

 spirilla in, 102, 226, 327 

 sterilization of, 128 

 storage of, 127 



Watery solutions of aniline dyes, 28 



Weigert's stain for fibrin and bac- 

 teria, 41 



Weir's method for disinfecting hands, 



212 

 Welch's stain for capsules, 45 

 Whooping-cough, 149 

 Widal's serum-test for typhoid fever, 



306 

 Wire baskets, 70 



platinum, 22 



silver, 217 

 Wolffhiigel plate, 129 

 Wool-sorters' disease, 124, 153, 274 

 Wounds, infected, 219 



infection of, 156, 237 



irrigation of, 219 

 Wright's stain for blood, 43 



method for anaerobes, 80 

 Wurtz's culture-medium, 302 

 Wurzelbacillus, 224 



Xerosis bacillus, 281 

 X-rays, 116 

 Xylol, 37, 40, 41 



Yeasts, 103, 124, 144, 229 

 Yellow fever, 149, 150, 154, 203, 206, 

 336 

 tubercle, 291 

 Yersin's serum for plague, 265 



Ziehl's carbol-fuchsin, 34 

 Zinc chloride, 207 

 sulphate,'207 

 Zoogloea, in 

 Zymophore group, 186 

 Zymotic group, 186 



