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Index of Subjects 



Bacterium leprae, 739. See also 

 Bacillus lepra. 

 pneumoniae, 464, 481. See alsoSa- 



cillus capsulatiis mucostis. 

 termo, 334 

 Bagdad boU, 569 

 Bain fixateur, 162 



reducteur et reinforgateur, 163 

 sensibilisateur, 163 

 Balantidium coli, 695 



animal inoculation with, 697 

 cultivation, 697 

 habitat, 696 

 lesions from, 697 

 morphology, 695 

 motility, 696 

 pathogenesis, 697 

 reproduction, 696 

 staining, 696 

 diarrhea, 69s 

 transmission, 697 

 Banti's method of procuring pure cul- 

 tures, 214 

 Barber's itch, 800 

 Bass and Johns' method of cultivating 



malarial parasites, 510 

 Bass' method of concentrating malarial 



parasites, 503 

 Bazillenemulsion, 725 

 Beck and Proskauer's method of culti- 

 vating tubercle bacillus, 710 

 Beckman's method of isolating Bacil- 

 lus typhosus, 640 

 Behring's method of determining po- 

 tency of diphtheria serum, 132 

 Berkef eld's filter, 176 

 Big head, 775 



Binary division of bacteria, 32 

 Biologic contributions, 17 

 Biology of micro-organisms, 33 

 Biondi-Heidenhain stain for protozoa, 



108 

 Biscra boil, 569 

 button, 569 

 Black death, 582 

 molds, 43 

 plague, 582 



sickness, 563. See also Kala-azar. 

 Bladder, bacteria in, 76 

 Blake's method of identifying types of 



pneumococcus, 477 

 Blastomyces dermatitidis, 793 

 cultivation, 795 

 lesions from, 797 

 pathogenesis, 797 

 stainmg, 795 

 Blastomycetes, 40 

 Blastomycetic dermatitis, 793 

 Blastomycosis, 793 

 lesions, 791 

 specific organism, 795 

 transmission, 797 

 Block, hanging, Hill's, 148 

 Blood agar-agar as culture-medium, 

 196 



Blood, Bacillus typhosus in, 639 

 methods of securing, from animals, 



231 

 obtaining, for diphtheria antitoxin, 



131 



opsonic value of, requirements for 

 test, 278 



phagocytic power of, 278 



pipette, 282 

 Blood-corpuscles for Wassermann reac- 

 tion, 291 

 Blood-serum, alkaline, 199 



as culture- medium, 197 



cultures on, 213 



Koch's apparatus for coagulating, 

 198 



mixture, Loffler's, 198 



therapy, 227 

 Bodies, dead, disinfection of, 187 



immune, 121 



Negri, 376. See also Neurorrhydes 

 hydrophobicB. 

 Body, healthy, pathogenic bacteria in, 



.79. 



invasion of, by micro-organisms, 85 



Leishman-Donovan, 563 



louse, 529, S3 1 

 Boil, Aleppo, 569 



Bagdad, 569 



Biscra, 569 



Delhi, 569 



Jericho, 569, 570 

 Bolton and Globig's method of pre- 

 paring culture- media from potatoes, 



199 

 Bordet-Gengou bacillus, 460. See also 

 Bacillzis pertussis. 



phenomenon, 142 

 Bostrom's organism in actinomycosis, 



776 

 Botkin's apparatus for making anae- 

 robic cultures, 219 

 Botulism, 254 



bacteriologic diagnosis, 256 



pathogenesis, 256 



prophylaxis, 256 



treatment, 256 

 Botulismus, 61 

 Bouillon as culture-medium, 192 



preparation of, from fresh meat, 192 

 from meat extract, 193 



sugar, 194 

 BouUlon-filtrate, Denys', 723 

 Bovine tuberculosis, 728 



communicability to man, 730 

 in young children, 732 

 lesions in, 729 

 prophylaxis, 732 

 tuberculin test for, 732 

 Branched fungi, 42 

 Bromatotoxism, 252 

 Bronchopneumonia, 485 

 Broth as culture-medium, 192 



nitrate, 66 

 Brownian movement of bacteria, 32 



