INDEX. 



449 



Bacteria, products of growth of, gases, 



indol, 129 



pigment, 128 



ptomaines, 153,159 



toxins, 186 

 pure cultures of, 94 

 putrefactive, 94 

 relation of oxygen to, 127 

 resemblance to other living forms, 



I 

 size, absolute, 4 



variability, 121 

 spontaneous generation of, dis- 



proven, 3, 12 

 spore formation, 14 

 synonyms for, 4 

 staining of, in cover-slipsr 28 



in sections of tissues, 37, 41 



in sputum, 34, 350 

 thermal death-point of, 125 

 thermophylic, 125 

 transmission of specimens by 



mail,' no 

 useful, 5, 120 

 warmth in relation to growth of, 



125 

 zooglcea masses of, 122 

 Bacterial poisons in cheese, meat, 



milk and other foods, 186 

 Bacteriolysis, by normal and of im- 

 mune blood-serum, 193 

 source, 218 



theories in regard to the composi- 

 tion of lysins in general, 226 

 mechanism of, 230 

 Bacterium acidi lactici, 316 

 aerogenes, 316 

 coli communis (see Bacillus coli 



comm^unis) 

 pneumonicum, 316 

 syncyanum (see Bacillus cyano- 

 genus), termo, definition, 134 

 (see also Bacillus proteus) 

 urete, 273 

 Zopfii, 273 

 Bail on aggressins, 217 

 Balsam, Canada, for mounting cover- 

 slip preparations, 27, 29 

 Basic anilin dyes, 28 

 Basophylic granules, 41, 43 

 Bed-bugs, diseases carried by, 177 

 Beggeatoa, 276 

 Beef-tea, 64 

 Beri-Beri, 170 



Berkefeld filter, 63 



Bichlorid of mercury as germicide, 248 



Biedert method for examining sputum, 



37 

 Birds, tuberculosis of, 362 

 Bismarck brown as contrast stain with 

 Gram's method and other 

 methods, 28, 30 

 Black death, 325 

 Black-leg vaccine, 202 

 Blood-agar for cultivating B. influ- 

 enzae, 336 

 M. gonorrheae, 312 

 Blood, cultures from, 108 

 Blood-poisoning, 286 

 Blood-serum, agglutinins in, 190 

 aggressins in, 217 

 effect of dilution upon, 233 

 effect of heating on bacteriolytic, 



potency of, 195 

 of standing, on potency of, 194 

 bactericidal properties of, 193 

 cytolytic properties of, 194 

 heterologous and homologous, 



197 

 inactivated, 195, 222 

 Loffier's, 75 

 lysins in, 193 

 opsonins in, 216 

 precipitrns in, 196 

 preparation of, for culture me- 

 dium, 73 

 reactivated, 195, 222 

 specific precipitins for, 196 

 sterilization of , for culture medium, 



59. 74 

 test for typhoid fever, 193 

 Blue milk, bacillus of (see Bacillus 

 cyanogenus), 

 pus, 318 

 vitriol, 258 

 Bodily conditions predisposing to in- 

 fection, 178 

 Boiling, sterilization by, effect on 

 spores, 247 

 efficacy of, 55 

 for sterilizing water, 142 

 for surgical instruments, 266 

 Boils, caused by S. pyogenes aureus, 



293 

 Boophilus annulatus, 177 

 Bordet's theory of nature of lysins, 226 

 of toxin-antitoxin reaction, 225 

 on difference between his and 

 Ehrlich's theories, 229 



