INDEX. 493 Potato as a culture-medium, 134 -juice as a culture-medium, 135 Preparations, cover-glass, 91, 92 staining of, Gram's method, 99 Pseudodiphtheria, bacillus of, 294 relation of, to diphtheria, 295 Pseudotuberculosis, 239 bacillus of, 240 Ptomaines, definition of, 51 Pump-watei, number of bacteria in, 171 Puncture-cultures, 147 gelatin, various appearance of, 149 Pus, urethral, gonococcus in, 201 Putrefaction, 50 QUARTER-EVIL, 453. See Anthrax, symptomatic. RABBITS, method of making intra- venous injections into, 159 Rabies, 306. See Hydrophobia. Rauschbrand, 453. See Anthrax, symptomatic. Ravenel's method of. making an- aerobic cultures, 155 Ray-fungus, 261 Reaction, influence of, on growth, of bacteria, 46 Reagents, determination of anti- septic value of, 177 germicidal value of, 178 Reichel's filter, 111 Relapsing fever, 431 spirillum of, 431 pathogenesis of, 431, 432 staining of, 431 Respiratory tract, entrance of bac- teria into, 60 Results of vital activity in bacteria, 50 chromogenesis, 52 fermentation, 50 liquefaction of gelatin, 53 production of acids and alkalies, 54 of aromatics, 56 of disease, 57 Results of vital activity in bacteria, production of gases, 54 of odors, 55 of phosphorescence, 56 putrefaction, 50 reduction of nitrites, 56 Retention theory of immunity, 70 Rhinoscleroma, 273 bacillus of, 273 River-water, number of bacteria in, Roux's bacteriological syringe, 159 method of cultivating anaerobic bacteria, 157 SALKOWSKI'S method of determin- ing indol in cultures of ba- cillus coli, 392 Salt solution as a disinfectant, 117 Sanarelli's bacillus, 400. See Ba- cillus icteroides. Saprogenic bacteria, 50 Saprophytes, 49 Sarcina, 36, 37 Schaumorgane, 470 Schottelius' method of securing pure cultures of the chol- era spirillum, 316 Sedgwick's expanded tube for air- examination, 167 Septic diseases, the, 431 Serum, anti-streptococcus, 176 antitoxic, of anthrax, 364 of cholera, 325, 326 of diphtheria, 302 of tetanus, 282 -test for typhoid fever, 382, 383 Siberian pest, 453. See Anthrax. Sick-room, disinfection of, 118 Skin and mucous membranes, en- trance of bacteria through, 61 • disinfection of, 115 Smith's fermentation-tube, 55 Soil, bacteria of, important, 175 bacteriologic examination of, 174 Solution, Dunham's, 136 Ehrlich's anilin-water gentian- violet, 212