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Index 



Anti-arsenic serum, 390 



Anticytases, 112 



Anticytase serum, 115, 371 



Anticytotoxins, 110, 118, 122, 127, 360 



Antidiastase, 109 



Antidiastatic serums, 361 



Anti-enzymes, 109 



Antifixative, 112 



Antihaemolysins, 111 



Antihaemotoxins, 111, 119, 122 



Anti-infective. See Protective 



Antileucocidin, 359 



Antineurbtoxin, 116 



Antirennet, 109 



Antiricin, 360 



Antisepsis, Nature replaces by asepsis, 432 



Antiseptics. See also Toxins and Adaptation 



Antiseptics and foods, 26 



Antiseptic action of the gastric juice, 417 



Antispermofixative, 124 



Antispermotoxins, 116, 122-126 



Antistreptococcic serum, 243-245 



Antitetanin, nervous origin of, 390 



Antitoxic. See also Protective 



Antitoxic unit of Ehrlich, 373, 496 ; action 

 of non-specific and normal serums and of 

 broth, 365; function of the saliva, 417; 

 function of pepsin and other digestive 

 ferments, 419, 424; action of intestinal 

 flora, 427; property of the body fluids, 

 531 (see Body fluids, Serums) ; power of 

 the blood of new-born children, 445 



Antitoxins, natural, in normal blood, 111, 

 204, 444 ; rarity in body fluids in natural 

 immunity, 204, 532, 533 ; development 

 of, during immunisation, 354 ; properties 

 of, 354; present in various fluids of 

 immunised animal, 355, 531; mode of 

 action of, on toxins, 356-362, 371; con- 

 ditions acting in mixtures of, with toxins, 

 362; immunity against toxins not in 

 direct constant ratio to amount of, 367- 

 376; effect of using serum from same 

 species, 379; hypothesis as to nature 

 and origin of, 377-402, 562; probable 

 part played by phagocytes in production 

 of, 400-402; rapid regeneration of, after 

 bleeding, 379; augmentation in produc- 

 tion of, by pilocarpin, 380; transmission 

 of, by milk to offspring, 449; analogy 

 of, with fixatives, 561 ; hypersecretion of, 

 563 



Antivenomous property of blood of scor- 

 pion, 328; action of serums, 334, 338; 

 serum, action of, 334, 338, 358, 360 

 Aqueous humour, bactericidal action of, 

 184,192; in immunised animals contains 

 no fixative, 217, 222; in immunised 

 animals contains antitoxin, 355 

 Arsenic: adaptation to, 31, 343, 390; pro- 

 tective serum against, 390; leucocytic 

 reaction against, 396-399; as a remedy 

 against microbial disease, 513 



Arsenic acid, action of, on anthrax bacillus, 

 25 



Arsenious acid, adaptation of plasmodia 

 to, 31 



Arthropoda. See Clothes-moth, Crayfish, 

 Crustacea, Daphnia, Scolopendra, Scor- 

 pion, Spider, Tick 



Arthrospores of Hueppe, 254 



Ascaris, poor microbian flora in intestine 

 of, 421; phagocytic organs of, 547 



Asepsis is Nature's method, 432 



Aspergillosis, 2, 4. See also Mycoses 



Atrophic diseases, probably due to a para- 

 site, 3 



Atropin, reaction of rabbit and guinea-pig 

 to, 395, 396 



Attenuation. See also Vaccination, Vac- 

 cines 



Attenuation of micro-organisms and viruses, 

 discovery and application of, 208, 247, 

 288, 508; of micro-organisms by the 

 fluids of immunised animals, 286-289; 

 of toxins, 344 



Autodigestion in yeast, 197 



Autospermotoxins, 101 



Autotoxins, 104 



Axolotl, susceptible to tetanus toxin, 

 330 



Bacilli, anaerobic, natural immunity 

 against, 169, 170 



Bacillus aerogenes, agglutination in, 264 



Bacillus chauvaei. See Anthrax sympto- 

 matic 



Bacillus coli attacks potato, 35; vaccina- 

 tion against, 267 ; transformation of, into 

 granules, 198; modified growth on certain 

 serums, 259 



Bacillus of Doederlein, 429; of Kiel water, 

 408 



Bacillus pyocyaneus, 42, 180, 254, 528 ; 

 acquired immunity against, 210, 232- 

 236, 301; Pfeiffer's phenomenon in, 234, 

 307; special forms of growth in serums 

 from vaccinated animals, 256; aggluti- 

 nation of, 261, 307 ; susceptibility to the 

 toxins of, 290, 351 ; action of specific se- 

 rum on, 307, 358 ; antagonistic to anthrax 

 bacillus, 323 ; immunisation against toxin 

 of, 351; a leucocidin from, 359; action 

 of liver on toxin of, 427; heredity of 

 immunity against toxin of, 446 



Bacillus ranicida, 140 



Bacteria. See Micro-organisms 



Bactericidal action of serum, influence of 

 alkalinity or acidity on, 196; function 

 of the tears, 408 



Bactericidal property. See also Body fluids, 

 Humoral theory, Serums 



Bactericidal property: in blood and other 

 fluids, 20, 146, 150, 151, 156, 157, 184- 

 193, 211, 226, 233, 238, 240, 241, 243, 

 244, 512, 525-531, 542, 554; of body 



