[99] Dated 1890-91. The Commissioners were the late Beaven Rake, M.D., G. A. Buckmaster, M.D., the late Professor Kanthack, of Cambridge, the late Surgeon-Major Arthur Barclay, and Surgeon-Major S. J. Thomson. [100] _Bacteriology and Infective Diseases_ (1896), p. 144. Professor Crookshank's Reports to the Agricultural Department of the Privy Council constitute the most complete account of this disease hitherto published. [101] _Zeitschr. f. Hyg. und Inf. Krank._, xxv. [102] _Journal of State Medicine_, December, 1897, p. 561. [103] _Bacteriology and Infective Diseases_, p. 35. [104] _British Medical Journal_, 1895 (February), p. 353. [105] _British Medical Journal_, 1896 (August), p. 439. [106] _Journal of State Medicine_, 1898 (November), p. 541. [107] The measurement of cubic space is of course made by multiplying together in feet the length, breadth, and height of a room. [108] _British Medical Journal_, 1898 (April), p. 1013. INDEX Abscess formation, 296-301 Acetous fermentation, 115, 127 Actinomycosis, 316 Aërobic organisms, 26 Agar, 21 Air, bacteriology of, 96-110 -- examination of, 96-99 -- of sewers, 105 -- expired, 102 -- bacteria and gravity, 106 -- standard of bacteria in, 108 -- pathogenic bacteria in, 109 -- passages, bacteria in, 103 Alcohol, formation of, 115 Alcoholic fermentation, 115, 117 Alexines, 249, 268 Alformant lamp for disinfection, 334 Algæ in water, 53 Ammoniacal fermentation, 115 Amylolytic ferments, 115 Anaërobic organisms, 132 -- methods of culture, 139-142 -- in hydrogen, 139, 140 -- in glucose-agar, 142 -- in Fränkel's tube, 140 -- in Buchner's tube, 141 Aniline dyes, 44 Antagonism of organisms, 33 Anthrax, 19, 26, 30, 34, 245 -- pathology of, 301 -- spores of, 302 -- bacillus of, 302 Antiseptics, 323, 332 -- definition of, 322 -- some of the chief, 332 Antitoxins, 245-250 -- preparation of, 259 -- use of, 263 -- unit of, 263 Appendix, 337 Arthrospores, 17 Artificial purification of water, 73 Ascospores, 120 Asiatic cholera, 65 Association of organisms, 31 Attenuation of virulence, 36 Bacillus, definition of, 11 -- aceti, 34, 129 -- acidi lactici, 131, 185, 190 -- amylobacter, 132 -- anthracis, 26, 31, 34, 110, 301-305 -- aquatilis, 53 -- butyricus, 133 -- coli communis, 32, 56, 58-62, 64, 67, 86, 88, 108, 151, 194, 237, 299, 315 -- cyanogenus, 193 -- diphtheriæ, 201, 212, 244, 289-296 -- enteriditis sporogenes, 60, 86, 87, 316 -- erythrosporus, 53 -- fluorescens liquefaciens, 43, 53, 64, 86 -- fluorescens non-liquefaciens, 53, 15 -- of cholera, 65-69 -- of diarrhœa, 203, 204 -- of influenza, 315 -- lactis erythrogenes, 193 -- lactis pituitosi, 193 -- lactis viscosus, 193 -- liquefaciens, 53, 151 -- of leprosy, 308-313