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INDEX 



Bacteria, parasitic, 22 



pathogenic, action of, 174 

 effects of, 181 



saprophytic, 22 



sensitised, 223 



separation of, 58 



species of, 24 



spore formation in (see also 

 Spores), 5, 61 



staining of, 98 



structure of, 3 



sulphur-containing, 10 



temperature of growth of, 19 



toxins of, 186 



variability among, 25 



virulence of, 175, 556 

 Bacterial ferments, 23, 193 



pigments, 11 



protoplasm, structure of, 9 



treatment of sewage, 157 

 Bactericidal methods, 122 



powers of serum, 570 



substances,- 571 

 Bacteriological diagnosis, 134 



examination of discharges, 133 

 Bacterium acidi lactici, 163 

 Basidiomycetes, 533 

 Beer wort agar, 53 

 Bees, poisons of, 194 

 Beggiatoa, 16 

 Behring on immunity, 433 

 Beraneck tuberculin, 290 

 Besredka on anaphylaxis, 599 

 Bile-salt media, 49 

 Bilious fevers, 679 

 Bismarck-brown, 99 

 Blackleg, 456 

 Blackwater fever, 639 

 Blastomycosis, 547 

 Blastopores (malaria), 632 

 Blood-agar (see also Culture media), 



44 

 Blood, examination of, 70, 92 



in malarial fever, 624 



in relapsing fever, 506 



samples, removal of, from rabbits, 

 etc., 126 



serum, coagulated, as medium, 40 

 Blood-smeared agar, 44 

 Bone-marrow in leucocytosis, 188 

 Bordet and Gengou's medium for 

 whooping-cough bacillus, 45 

 Bordet and Gengou on whooping- 

 cough, 484 et seg. 



Bordet's phenomenon, 572 

 Botulism, bacillus of, 438 



toxin of, 567 

 Bouillon (see also Culture media), 33 

 Bovine tuberculosis, 278 =i 

 Bread paste, 48 

 Brieger and Boer, 1 92 

 Brilliant green media, 51 

 Brill's disease, 695. 

 Browning's brilliant green method, 



51 

 Buboes, 263 

 Bubonic pest, 487 

 Buchner on alexins, 593 

 Buclmer's anaerobic tubes, 66 

 Bulloch's apparatus for anaerobic 

 culture, 62 



heart medium, 39 

 Biitschli on bacterial structure, 10 

 Butter bacilli, acid-fast, 285 



Calmette, 498, 558, 564, 608 



ophthalmo-reaction of, 291 

 Canary fever, 693 

 Canon on influenza, 479 

 Cantani on influenza, 483 

 Capaldi and Proskauer, media of, 



364 

 Capsules, staining of, 107 

 Carbol-fuchsin, 103 



-gentian-violet stain, 103 



-methylene-blue, 102 



-thionin-blue, 102 

 Carbolic acid as antiseptic, 172 

 Carriers, cholera, 467 



diphtheria, 413 



in cerebro-spinal meningitis, 248 



in disease, 178 



paratyphoid, 379 



typhoid, 370 



yellow fever, 679 

 Carroll's method of making anae- 

 robic cultures, 66 

 Carter on relapsing fever, 506 

 Castellani on frambcesia, 524 

 Cattle plague, 607 

 Cerebro-spinal fluid, examination 



by lumbar puncture, 71 

 Chagas on trypanosomiasis, 667 

 Chamberland and Roux, attenuation 



of b. anthracis, 556 

 Chamberland's filter, 73 

 Charbon, 334 



symptomatique, 456 



