28 
Table No. 8. — Bouillon containing various 'percentages of formalin was distributed in test 
tabes, and each tube was inoculated with a small loopfid of a forty-eight-hour agar culture 
of Staphylococcus pyogenes aureus, kept under observation in the incubator at 37° C. for 
fifteen days. 
[-}- means growth; - no growth.] 
Dilution. 
First day. 
Second day. 
Third day. 
Fourth day. . 
Fifth day. 
1 
Sixth day. 
Seventh day. 
Eighth day. 
Ninth day. 
Tenth day. 
1 
Eleventh day. 
Twelfth day. 
Thirteenth day. 
Fourteenth day. 
Fifteenth day. 
1 to 7,000... 
_ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
T 
+ 
1 to 6, 000... 
-- 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
1 to 5, 000... 
— 
— 
— 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
1 to 4, 000... 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
- 
/ + 
\ scant. 
} + 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
+ 
1 to 3, 000... 

_ 
— 
1 to 2, 000... 
1 to 1,000... 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
1 to 500 
Table No. 9. — Bouillon containing various percentages of formalin teas distributed in test 
tubes and each tube was inocidated with a smcdl loopfid of a forty-eight-hour agar cul- 
ture of B. prod'igiosis kept under observation in the incubator at 37° C. for fifteen days. 
[+ means growth; — no growth. 
Table No. 10. — Bouillon containing various percentages of formalin was distributed in test 
tubes and each tube was inoculated with a small loopful of a forty-eight-hour agar cul- 
ture of B. acidi lactici kept under observation in the incubator at 37° C. for fifteen days. 
[+ means growth; — no growth.] 
