780 



INDEX 



Drugs (cont.): 



susceptibility of Pneumococcus to, 



520 

 See also Chemotherapy 



Egg albumen 



effect on hemolysis, 84 

 effect on oral vaccination against 

 Pneumococcus, 348-349, 487 

 Egg white as adjuvant in oral ad- 

 ministration of antigens, 348 

 Electrophoretic potential of Pneumo- 

 coccus 

 effect of antiserum and animal pas- 

 sage on, 145 

 in classification of Pneumococcus, 



118-119 

 of variants, 144 

 relation to virulence, 201 

 Empyema fluids, agglutinins and pre- 

 cipitins in, 441 

 Encapsulates pneumoniae. See Ba- 

 cillus friedlanderi, 260 

 Endocarditis, Pneumococcus in, 5, 8, 



16, 17, 226 

 Endotoxin, 97 

 Enteritis, fibrinous, Pneumococcus in, 



226 

 Enzymes, pneumococcal, 65-66 

 amylase, 67 



effect of formalin on, 332 

 effect of hydrogen peroxide on, 79 

 endocellular, in autolysates, 79 

 in pneumococcal exudates, 442-443 

 inulase, 67 

 invertase, 67 

 lactase, 68 

 maltase, 68 

 proteolytic, 65-66, 442 

 raffinase, 68 

 Enzymes, polysaccharide-splitting 

 action on agar, 317 

 action on cell capsule, 304-305 

 action on capsular polysaccharides 

 Type I, 318 

 Type II, 316 

 Type III, 302-304, 316 

 Type VIII, 320 



Enzymes, polysaccharide-splitting 

 (cont.): 

 action on purpurigenic principle, 



321 

 action, protective, 306-307 

 bacteria-producing 

 B. palustris gelacticus, 319, 320 

 Flavo-bacterium ferruginum, 319 

 Mycobacteriaceae, 320 

 SIII bacillus. See SIII bacillus 

 Saccharobacterium, 320 

 differences in susceptibility of pneu- 

 mococcal polysaccharides to, 320- 

 321 

 effect on infection 

 in mice, 305-306 

 in monkeys, 312-316 

 in rabbits, 310-312 

 filtration, 320 

 methods of preparation, 307-310, 



640-641 

 phagocytosis and, 307, 316 

 specificity, 308 

 toxicity, 308 

 unit defined, 311 

 Epidemics of pneumonia 

 in guinea pigs, 186 

 in man, 10, 224-225 

 in monkeys, 191, 483-484 

 in rabbits, 179 

 Epidemiology of pneumonia. See Car- 

 riers 

 Epidydimitis, Pneumococcus in, 226 

 Erysipelas, Pneumococcus in, 226 

 Escherichia coli 



polysaccharide in, 262 

 relation to Pneumococcus, 261 

 Etiology of pneumonia, 9, 18, 25, 216- 



222 

 Eucopine, as germicide, 515 

 Exotoxin, 97 



Experimental animals. See Pathoge- 

 nicity of Pneumococcus; Skin re- 

 actions; and under particular 

 animal 

 Exudates 



antagonistic substances in, 442-443 

 antiserum, 579 



