700 
Salt meat, bacteria in, 671° 
saturated solution of, inefficient as a 
germicide, 573 
Salts, antiseptic and germicidal value of, 
158 
Sanarelli’s water vibrios resembling the 
cholera spirillum, 607 
Sandalwood, antiseptic power of, 203 
Sand filtration in air analysis, 620 
Saprin, 147 
Saprol, disinfectant power of 206 
Saprophytes, 611 
conditions favorable to their growth, 
613 
in air, list of, 624 
Saprophytic bacilli which are patho- 
genic, 528 
bacteria, 15 
Sarcina, general characters of, 17 
grouping of, 22 
in stomach of persons suffering from 
indigestion, 662 
aurantiaca, thermal death-point of, 
155 ; 
lutea, thermal death-point of, 155 
Sassafras, antiseptic power of, 203 
Savin, antiseptic power of, 203 
Sawizky on the vitality of dried tuber- 
culous sputum, 479 
Scarlet fever, second attacks of, 243 
Scheinfaden, 120 
Schizomycetes of Nageli, 11 
Schoolrooms, bacteriology of the air of, 
625 
Schréder and Van Dusch, use of cotton 
as a filter by, 4 
Schuhanka, protective inoculations in 
Salzburg 350 
Schulze’s (Franz) experiments opposed to 
spontaneous generation 4 
Schiitz’s diplococcus of pneumonia in 
horses, 418 
Schwann’s experiments opposed to spon- 
taneous generation, 4 
Schweinerothlauf, 287 
Schweineseuche, 287, 344 
(Léffler and Schiitz), 343 
Sea water. number of bacteria in, 637, 
641 
Secondary infections, 227 
INDEX. 
Septicemia, definition and general char- 
acters of, 498 
produced by saprophytic bacteria, 
528, 529 
Septicemic bacteria, attenuated varie- 
ties in the mouth and air passages of 
certain animals, 503 
Serpent venom, immunization against, 
262 
Serum-albumin, germicidal power of, 210, 
238 
Serum of blood, germicidal action of, 
236, 257 
immunizing value of, 313 
Sevestre’s observations on the disappear- 
ance of the Léffler bacillus after diph- 
theria, 460 
Sewer water, number of bacteria in, 634 
Shakespeare’s report on anticholeraic in- 
oculations, 300 
Sheep, micrococcus of gangrenous masti- 
tis in, 416 
Sheep-pox, influence of temperature on 
the infectious material of, 156 
Ships, disinfection of, 214 
Siberian plague, 422 
Silicate jelly as a culture medium, 47 
Silkworms infected with “la flacherie,” 
415 
with pébrine, 415 
Silver chloride as an antiseptic, 194 
nitrate as an antiseptic, 194 
Sjobring’s method of demonstrating the 
structure of bacterial cells, 117 
Skatol, no germicidal power, 206 
Skin, abscesses caused by staphylococcus 
epidermidis albus, 372 
human, bacterial flora of, 648 
list of species found on the, 649 
infection through the, 229 
Sleskin’s silicate jelly, 47 
Smallpox, heat as a disinfectant for, 154 
second attacks of, 243 
Smear preparations, 26 
Smith (Erwin F.) quoted on bacterial 
diseases of plants, 571 
Smith (Theobald), fermentation tube of, 
68 
views on the hog cholera group of 
bacteria, 506 
