INDEX. 
Ehrlich’s side chain theory, 269 
Ehrlich-Weigert’s aniline-methyl-violet 
solution, 29, 471 
method of staining the tubercle ba- 
cillus, 30 
stain for syphilis bacilli, 495 
Electric light in photomicrography, 107 
Electricity, influence of, on bacterial 
growth, 162 
Elsner’s method for detecting the ty- 
phoid bacillus in water and faces, 
446 
Emmerich’s bacillus (B. neapolitanus), 
529 
thermal death-point of, 155 
experiments on micrococcus pneu- 
moniz croupose, 341 
Endocarditis, ulcerative, micrococcus 
pneumonie croupose in, 401 
Endospores, 16 
Enzymes produced by liquefying bac- 
teria, 136 
Eosin as a double stain, 28 
collodion in photographing bacteria, 
103 
Eosinophile cells,. 237 
Epidemics, Pasteur on the origin of, 290 
Erlenmeyer flasks, 60, 63 
Escherich’s view that pseudo-diphther- 
itic bacilli are distinct from the true 
bacillus, 460 
Esmarch’s roll tubes, 76 
tubes in water analysis, 628, 
630 
method of cultivating anaérobic bac- 
teria, 84 
Essential oils, antiseptic power of, 202 
Ether, action of, on bacillus tuberculosis, 
478 
antiseptic power of, 202 
in experiments on animals, 99 
Eugenol, antiseptic power of, 203 
Euphorin, feeble germicidal activity of, 
204 
Eucalyptol, antiseptic power of, 203 
Eucalyptus, antiseptic power of, 203 
Excreta, disinfection of, 212, 217 
method of testing for the cholera 
spirillum, 598 
Exhaustion theory of immunity, 249 
685 
Expired air free from micro-organisms, 
622 
Eye, inoculations into, 99 
FacuLtaTIvE anaérobics, 16, 18 
in stab cultures, 70 
parasites, 15, 127, 221 
saprophytes, 221 
Feces, list of species of pathogenic bac- 
teria found in, 663 
Fallopian tubes free from bacteria in 
health, 654 
Farcy, symptoms of, 491 
Fasching’s capsule bacillus, 561 
Feet, the, bacteria on, 649 
Fennel, antiseptic power of, 203 
Ferment lactique of Pasteur, 667 
Fermentation by bacteria, 136 
of grape sugar in water sup- 
plies, 535 
in liquid media, 68 
putrefactive, 141 
test for colon and typhoid bacilli in 
water, 445 
tubes, 68 
of urea, 140 
viscous, 141 
Ferments, soluble, produced by bacteria, 
143 
Fermi and Pernossi on the properties of 
tetanus poison, 354 
Ferran’s anticholeraic inoculations, 301 
Ferret disease, bacillus of, 508 
Ferric chloride, antiseptic value of, 
189 
sulphate, action of, on micrococcus 
pneumoniz croupose, 405 
antiseptic power of, 189 
Filters, soluble, in analysis, 620 
Filtration as a means of sterilizing, 58 
Finger-nails, bacteria found under, 648 
Finkler and Prior, spirillum of, 602 
Fiocca’s bacillus, 547 
method of staining spores, 32 
Fire as a disinfectant, 212, 213 
Fish, boiled, as a culture medium, 40 
Flagella of bacteria, 24, 119 
methods of staining, 32 
of bacillus amylovorus, 576 
campestris, 575 
