Acid, acetic, produced by bac-|
teria, 134.
Acid, lactic, 144; produced by
bacteria, 148; and churning,
151; and ensilage, 153; and
sauerkraut, 152.
Acquired immunity, 198.
Acute miliary tuberculosis, 187.
Agglutination of bacteria, 207.
Air, infection through, 181;
microbes in, 10, 183; microbic
poison, 10.
Alcohol, butyl, 133; ethyl, 134.
Alien species and natural bal-
ance, 213.
Alimentary canal, bacteria in,
155; lactic-acid bacteria, 148.
Amino acids, 142.
Ancestral home of bacteria, 2.
Ancestry of bacterial infection,
3, 169.
Animalcules, 5, 10.
Animals invaded by bacteria, 3,
169.
Anterior poliomyelitis, 18.
Anthrax bacillus, longevity, 25;
and sheep, 197; spores, 24.
Anti-bodies, 207.
Antitoxin, 71, 207, 220; diph-
theria, 71, 220.
Artificial rubber, 132.
Asiatic cholera, 174.
Australian rabbit plague, 213.
Avian tubercle bacillus, 28.
Bacillus anthracis, 24, 197; bo-
tulinus, 64; bulgarian, 166;
bütschlii, 16; cuniculicida, 215;
influenza, 16, 18; pestis, 190;
prodigiosus, 181, 201; radici-
cola, 93; tetani, 23; tubercle,
31, 180-83; typhosus, 15-17,
33; size of typhosus, 16; weight
of typhosus, 17.
Bacteria, acetic acid, 134; in
alimentary canal, 148, 155,
158, 162, 174; in butter, 150;
counting of, 115; definition of,
1, 12; and diseases of plants,
137-40; in ensilage, 153; first
seen, 5; and flax retting, 126;
and food poisoning, 63-67;
forms of, 14; function in Na-
ture, 2, 3, 88; in industries,
124-37; iron, 101, 102; lactic
acid, 147-54, 166-67; in
leather-making, 129; in living
earth, 2, 3, 88; luminescent,
43, 44; microscopic appear-
ance, 12; moisture effects
upon, 37; nitrogen-fixing, 94–
100; nodule, 95; nutrition of,
51-60; parasitic, 3, 169, 201;
paratyphoid, 65; pathogenic,
4, 173, 210; phosphorescent,
43, 44; poisons of, 64, 67, 70;
rate of growth of, 18-20; of
respiratory tract, 179; and
rubber, 133; and sauerkraut,
152; and sewage, 60, 112, 114;
size of, 15; of soil, 93-99, 168;
spores, 22-25; as sugar chem-
ists, 79-85; sulphur, 100;
temperature relations of, 27-
37; vinegar, 134; weight of, 17.
Balances, disturbances of, 211;
meningococcus, 220; natural,
209; animal and microbic, 215;
plant and microbic, 139; sero-
logic, 221.
Beef broth, for bacterial cultiva-
tion, 8, 56-60.
Blight, caused by bacteria, 137.
Blow fly and spontaneous gener-
ation, 8.
Blue snow,
Boils, bacteria in, 197, 202.
Botulism, 64.
Cycle-carbon, 73; of life, 2, 86, Fructose, identification by bac-
Dew retting, 126.
Dinosaurs, infections in, 169.
Diphtheria antitoxin, 70, 208,
220; bacillus, 58-60, 67;
poison, 58, 67, 70, 71; toxin,
58, 67, 70, 71.
teria, 81; structure, 76.
Function of bacteria, 2, 86, 101,
124.
Galactose, identification by bac-
teria, 81; structure, 76.
Gel, 37.
Germs, see Bacteria also, 12.
Disease-producing bacteria, ori-Glanders bacillus, 197.
gin, 4, 169.
Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 59,
Drinking water and bacteria,
Droplet infection, 181.
Drying, effect on bacteria, 37,
42; on meat, 37, 42.
Dysentery bacteria, 174.
Glucose and diphtheria toxin,
59, 68; identification of, by
bacteria, 81; structure, 76.
Ground squirrels and plague,
189.
Growth of bacteria, factors in-
fluencing, 20; rate of, 18-20;
restraints, 20.
Guinea pigs, bacteria-free, 161.
Earth, life cycle, 2, 86-102, 124. Hay bacillus, 24.
Hyacinth, bacterial disease of,
139.
Ice, and bacteria, 33-35.
Ice crystals, effect on bacteria,
34.
Liquid air; effect on bacteria, 33.
Living earth, 2, 73, 88, 108; and
sewage, 108.
Lockjaw bacillus, 23.
Locomotive, inanimate machine,
51, 52.
Immunity, acquired, 198; cel-Longevity of bacteria, 24.
lular, 203; congenital, 198; Lowell, typhoid in City of, 105.
general, 196; individual, 197; Luminescent bacteria, 43.
natural, 198; phagocytic, 203; Lungs, bacterial infections of,
racial, 196; theories of, 203- 179; tuberculosis of, 183.
Jekyll, Dr., and Mr. Hyde, 59, 68.
Jerked beef; resistance to mi-
crobic decomposition, 42.
Lactic-acid bacteria, 147–54, 166,
167; Bulgarian, 166; and leath-
er, 129; and sauerkraut, 152.
Lactose, 83, 164.
Lawrence Experiment Station,
107.
Lawrence filtration plant, 119.
Lawrence, typhoid in, 105, 122.
Leather, tanning of, 128.
Leeuwenhoek, van, 4.
Leguminous plants and nitrogen
fixation, 93.
Leprosy, 193.
Leucocytes, 202; and immunity,
Life cycle, 2, 86, 101, 124; and
Man, measles balance, 218; men-
ingococcus balance, 221; mi-
crobe balance, 217, 222.
Mannose, structure of, 76; iden-
tification of, by bacteria, 81.
Marmot and plague, 189.
Measles, 217.
Measurement of bacteria, 15.
Meat, preservation of, by cold,
35; by drying, 42.
Membrane, semi-permeable, 39.
Meningitis, kinds of, 220, 221.
Metabolism, general principles
of, 52-60.
Metchnikoff, theory of immu-
nity, 203.
Mice and plague, 193; and spon-
taneous generation, 8.
Microbe (see Bacteria), 12; bal-
ance with man, 217, 222; and
spontaneous generation, 9-11;
ultramicroscopic, 18.
Microbiphilia, 222.
Microbiphobia, 193.
Micron, 15.
Microscope, discovery of, 4.
Miliary tuberculosis, 187, 211.
Milk, bacteria in, 31, 146, 165,
187; and bovine tuberculosis,
31, 187; Bulgarian, 166; opac-
ity, 31; pasteurization, 29-31;
soured, 145, 164, 221.
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