486

INDEX.

Bacteriologic examination of soil, j

174

of water, 169
Bacteriology, history of, 17
Bacterium, 38

definition of, 30
Beef-peptone in preparation of

bouillon, 125
Beggiatoa, 39
Benches, glass, for use in making

plate-cultures, 142
Binary division, 33

results of, 33

Birds, susceptibility of, to experi-
mental inoculation with
tubercle bacilli, 239
Black-leg, 453. See Anthrax,

symptomatic.
Black vomit of yellow fever, cause

of, 404

Blood agar-agar, 131
Blood-serum, alkaline, 133
as a culture-medium, 131
Koch's apparatus for coagulating

a^d sterilizing, 133
mixture, Loffler's, 133
therapy, discovery of, 29
Body-juices, antibactericidal action

of, 77

Bordoni, bacillus of, 243
Botkin's apparatus for making
anaerobic plate - cultures,

i56

Bottle for cultivating tetanus-
bacillus, 278
Bouillon as a culture-medium,

124

preparation of, 124
free from dextrose as a culture-
medium, 137
Browniaii movement, 32
Bubonic plague, 433
antitoxin of, 441
bacillus of, 435
cultures of, 435
discovery of, 29
pathogenesis of, 437, 438
forms of, 434
serum, 441

Buchner's method of making an-
aerobic cultures, 153

CAPILLARY TUBES for securing
definite quantities of blood
in typhoid test, 381-390
Carbol-fuchsin, 100
Carbolic acid, value of, as a germi-
cide, 118
Carmin and hematoxylon, efforts
to facilitate observation of
bacteria by means of, 90
Catgut, sterilization of, 116
Celloidin as an imbedding agent, 94
Cells, phagocytic, 71
Charbon symptomatique, 453.
See Anthrax, symptom-
atic.

Cheese-poisoning, cause of, 51
Chemo.taxis, 71
negative, 75
Chicken-cholera, 409
bacillus of, 409
cultures of, 410
pathogenesis of, 411
pneumococcus of, discovery of,

28

Cholera, 311
Asiatic, spirillum of, 312
cultures of, 315-318
staining of, 315

effect of vaccination in preven-
tion of, 325
nog, 413

immunity to, attempts to pro-
duce, 324
reasons for, 320
infectious nature of, 312
spirillum of, in drinking-water,

means of detecting, 323
pure cultures of, Schottelius'

method of securing, 316
toxic products of the metab-
olism of, 319
theories as to the cause of, 321,

322

Cilia, 31

Circulation, modes of entrance of
bacteria into, 62