INDEX.

491

Koch's apparatus for coagulating
and sterilizing blood-serum,

133
method of determining the germi-

cidal value of reagents, 178
new tuberculin, 231-236

injection of, in man, 234
steam apparatus for sterilization

of culture-medium, 108
syringe, 159

Koplick's bacillus, 476-478
Kiihne's carbol-methylene blue,

253

LENSES, high-power, i:se of, 87
low-power, use of, 87
oil-immersion, use of, 87
Leprosy, 241
anesthetic, 247
bacillus of, 242
cause of, 241

discovery of, 28
nodes of, 246
Leptothrix, 33, 39
Leuconostoc, 38
Levelling apparatus for pouring

plate-cultures, 140
Liborius' method of making anaer-
obic cultures, 153
* Life, spontaneous generation of,

doctrine of, 18

Ligatures, disinfection of, 116, 117
Light, influence of, on growth of

bacteria, 46

selection of, in study of bacteria
by means of the microscope,

8?

Liquid culture-media, development

of bacteria in, 147
Liquids, sterilization of, in
Listerism, 182
origin of, 27
Litmus milk as a culture-medium,

135
Loftier's alkaline methylene-blue,

96

blood-serum mixture, 286

as a culture-medium, 133
method of staining flagella, 101

Loffler's method of staining sec-
tions, 95

Lugol's solution, dilute, for stain-
ing bacteria in tissue, 97

Lymphocytes, 71

MADURA-FOOT, 266
cause of, 267
streptothrix of, 268
Malignant edema, 459
Mallein, 254

injections of, in glanders, 254
Measles, 451
bacillus of, 451
cultures of, 452
discovery of, 29
staining of, 451
Meat-infusion, 125
Meat-poisoning, cause of, 51
Merismopedia, 36, 37
Methods of observing bacteria, 86
Methyl-violet, antiseptic value of,
destructive and inhibitory,

114

Meyer's bacteriological syringe,

159

Micrococci, 36

Micrococcus gonorrhoeae, 201
tetragenus, 200, 443
cultures of, 444
pathogenesis of, 445
staining of, 444

! Micro-organisms, living, hanging-
drop method of examina-
tion, 88

methods of destroying, 105
on the skin, 183
Microscope, essential features of,

86
Microtome sections of gelatin

growths, 149

Milk as a culture-medium, 135
as a medium for the cultivation
of the bacillus diphtheriae,
291

bacteria in, 57

peptonization of, by bacteria, 56
Mineral salts, effect of, in bacterial
cultures, 49