MCCLUNG, L. S. The anaerobic bacteria and their activities in nature and disease; a subject bibliography.

It is now possible to cultivate certain pathogenic bacteria, and by modifying the conditions under which they are grown, to destroy their violence.

In water tainted with organic matter putrefactive bacteria will flourish, whereas pure water is fatal to their existence.

Monthly it isolated the causative bacteria of unrest, to set the results before those who could profit would they but read.

It is especially important that all fruits to be eaten should not only be sound in quality, but should be made perfectly clean by washing if necessary, since fruit grown near the ground is liable to be covered with dangerous bacteria (such as cause typhoid fever or diphtheria), which exist in the soil or in the material used in fertilizing it.

Other substances in the blood which destroy and dissolve bacteria are also increased.

; on the fifth day, seventy-one per cent.; on the sixth day, forty per cent.; and after that the discharges have no effectthe bacteria die, and the poison becomes inert.

The discharges swarm with infective bacteria of various kinds, some of which, especially Koch's comma bacilli, seem to be specific.

The filaments of the carnivorous trees are garlands of lamps; the eyes of the hunting animals, electric globes; the insignificant bacteria, light-producing little glands all of which open or close with phosphorescent switches according to the necessity of the moment,sometimes in order to persecute and devour, and at others in order to keep themselves hidden in the shadows.

Finally, we must refer to the numerous bacteria that occasion putrefaction in vegetable or animal organisms.

The same analyst incidentally discovered that the air at Chorkstone is largely laden with poisonous bacteria.

This is a cultivation of the actual living disease bacteria."

(Drawn from photographs.) A, spheroidal bacteria (called cocci) in pairs; B, same kind of bacteria in chains; C, bacteria found in pus (grouped in masses like a bunch of grapes).

And when another epidemic of influenza occurs, we may look with some confidence to having the hypothesis either refuted or confirmed by those engaged in the systematic study of atmospheric bacteria.

The intelligent farmer today sits under his shade tree and meditates comfortably upon the least expensive and most profitable labour on his farm, the countless millions of beneficent bacteria who, his willing slaves, are ceaselessly at work during hot weather forming root tubercles on his legumes, be it clover or cow peas, and so fixing for their lord the free atmospheric nitrogen contained in the soil.