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INDEX 



Billroth, 27, 28 

 Biology of bacteria, 181 

 Birsch-Hirschfeld, 26 

 Blood-serum from small animals, 

 122 

 apparatus, 121-123 



Loffler's, 130 



preparation of, 120 



preservation of, 124 

 Body, defenses of, 261 

 Bonnet, 24 

 Bouillon, 108 



growth of bacteria in, 183 



reaction of, 109 

 Braatz, 317 



Brushes for cleaning test-tubes, 134 

 Burdon-Sanderson, 29 

 Burner, Koch's safety, 147 



Chemotaxis, 58 

 Chevreul, 23 



Cholera Asiatic, bacteria of, 522- 

 547 



antagonisms of, 530 



cultivation of, 525-532 



discovery of, 522 



general considerations of, 

 536 



grouping of, 524 



immunity from, 535 



Pfeiffer's work on, 535, 

 536 



in dead bodies, 539 



in food, 539 



in soil, 538 



in water, 537 



influences of gases on, 540 

 of Hght on, 538 



inoculation experiments, 522 



morphology of, 523 



pathogenesis of, 527 



poison of, 531 



resistance of, 530, 537-540 



when dried, 540 

 diagnosis of, 541 



by cultures, 542 



by microscope, 542 

 Classen, 27 

 Cohn, 24 



Colon bacillus, 503 

 Colonies, study of, 152 

 macroscopic characteristics of, 

 103 

 Colony-formation, 181 

 Complement, 287, 288 

 fixation of, 300 

 origin of, 287 

 specificity of, 287 

 Cooling chamber for plates, 139 



stages, 141 

 Comma bacillus, 523 

 Corrosive sublimate, 316 

 Cover-slip preparations, 159 

 examination of, 190 

 hanging block, 196 



drop, 192 

 impression, 163 



steps in making and staining,'' 

 159 

 Culture media, 108 

 Cultures, filtration of, 209 

 gelatin, 197 

 hanging block, 196 



drop, 192 

 potato, 182, 197 

 pure, 154 

 smear, 154 

 stab, 154 

 test-tube, 154 



Dark-field illumination, 190 

 Decolorizing solutions, 167 



Pappenheim's, 170 

 Defenses, of body, 261 

 Denitrification, 37, 575 

 Dentrifying bacteria, 36, 575 

 Diphtheria, 454^472 

 antitoxin, 476 



production of, 476, 477 

 standardization of, 478-480 

 bacillus of, 454, 456 

 bacteria simulating, 456 

 cultivation of, 458-163 

 differential test for, 473-476 



stainings, 473-476 

 experiments with, 464-467 

 isolation of, 454 

 loss of virulence of, 467 



