bacterioscopy (bakterioskopi)

[ bacteriotherapeutic (bak-tē"ri-ō-ther-a-pū'tik), a. [ Dr. Ballagi has carefully followed the bacteriotherapeutic details advised by Cantani in eight cases of advanced phthisis with moderate fever. Medical News, XLIX. 41. 416 stroyed the Bacillus tuberculosis which is characteristic of the disease. bacteritic (bak-tē-rit'ik), a. [ point that the of viewer. bacteria It which also appears exist to in have the been soil demonstrated are active in changing otherwise inert substances into matter suitable for the food of plants, converting the nitrogenous matter of organic origin into soluble nitrates. The genera and species have been defined, and are nece arily genera usually recognized are Micrococcus, with spherical cells, concerned in certain fermentations and found in connection with special contagious diseases; the rod-bac based on slight characters. The groups and principal teria, Bacterium; the straight filiform bacteria, Bacillus, etc.; and the spiral filiform bacteria, Vibrio, Spirillum, etc. Of the genus Micrococcus, M. diphtheritic us is considered to be the special cause of diphtheria, and M. vac cinæ of smallpox. See Bacteriaceæ, and cut under bacillus. 2. [ cap.] A genus of microscopic fungi, con sisting of a single short cylindrical or ellipti cal cell, or of two such cells united end to end, and capable of spontaneous movement. The best-known species, B. termo, is the prime cause of putre bad II. a . Pertaining to or containing baculites. Also baculitic . - Baculite limestone, a name given to the Chalk of Normandy, from the abundance of baculites which it contains.