INDEX 



347 



Paraform for disinfection, 334 

 Parasitism, 27, 162 

 Parietti's method, 62 

 Pasteurisation of milk, 20S-213 

 Pasteur's treatment of rabies, 253-258 

 Perlsucht, 2S3 

 Petri dishes, 50 

 Phagocytosis, 247 

 Phosphorescence, 26, 241 

 Pigment, formation of, 241 

 Place of bacteria in nature, 5 

 Plague, 306-308 

 Plant diseases, 35 

 Plate cultures, 40-46 

 Platinum needles, 22, 24 

 Pleomorphism, 12 

 Pneumo-bacillus, 315 

 Pneumococcus, 313 

 Pneumonia, 313 

 Polymorphism, 12 

 Postulates, Koch's, 266 

 Potato medium, 22 

 Pouchet's aeroscope, 96 

 Proteolytic ferments, 115 

 Proteus family, 86, 180, 297 



— vulgaris, 60, 86, 151, 194 



— zenkeri, 60 



Pseudo-diphtheria bacillus, 296 

 Ptomaines, 179 



Pure culture, 20, 46 

 Purification of water — 



— natural, 69 



— artificial, 73 

 Pus, 296 



Putrefaction, 143-149 

 Pyocyanin, 299 

 Pyoxanthose, 299 



Quantitative standard for water bac- 

 teria, 48, 49 



— air bacteria, 107 



— milk bacteria, 188 



— soil bacteria, 137 

 Quarter evil, 19, 171 



Rabies, treatment of, 253 



— forms of, 253 



— pathology of, 254 



— results of treatment, 256 

 Reek's disinfector, 328 

 Reproduction of bacteria, methods 



of, 16 

 Retting, 135 

 Rinderpest, 320 



Saccharomycetes, biology of, 119-121 



— methods of examination, 122 



— anomalous, 122 



— apiculatus, 127 



— aquifolii, 127 



— cerevisite, 117, 124, 126 



— conglomeratus, 126 



— ellipsoideus I., 126 



— ellipsoideus II,, 126, 134 



— exiguus, 127 



— Hansenii, 127 



— illicis, 127 



— Ludwigii, 122 



— mycoderma, 127 



— pastorianus I., 127, 134 



— pastorianus II., 127 



— pastorianus III., 127, 134 



— pyriformis, 127 



Salicylic acid as antiseptic, 205, 206 



Saprophytes, 27, 166 



Sarcina, 10 



Scarlet fever, 202, 321 



Sedgwick's method of air analysis, 99 



Sedimentation, 71, 73 



Septic processes, 296 * 



— tank, 90 



Sewage, organisms in, 84 



— bacterial treatment of, 89 

 Sewer air, 87 



— and toxicity of bacteria, 105 

 Shake culture, 62 



Shell-fish and bacteria, 229, 234 

 Small-pox, 251, 321 

 Soil, bacteriology of, 137 



— examination of, 138 



— kinds of bacteria in, 142-145 



— and its relation to disease, 173, 176, 



177 

 Species of bacteria, 29 

 Spirillum, definition of, ii 



— of cholera, 66 

 Spontaneous generation, 2 

 Spores, kinds of, 17-19 



— resistance of, 19, 278 



— staining of, 19 



— of yeasts, 122 

 Staining methods, 45 

 Staphylococcus, lO, 296 



— cereus albus, 297 



— pyogenes aureus, 88, loS, 297 

 Steam as a disinfector, 326 



— disinfectors, 327-329 



— steriliser, 326 



— saturated, 327 



— superheated, 327 



