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Index 



American trypanosomiasis, 518. See 



also American sleeping sickness 

 Amoeba coli, 633 



rhizoppda, 633 

 dysenteriae, 633 

 Anaerobes, 51 

 optional, 51 



Anaerobic bacteria, cultivation of, 215 

 by absorption of atmospheric 



oxygen, 215, 217 

 by displaceme t of air by inert 



gases, 215 

 by exclusion of atmospheric 



oxygen, 215, 219 

 by formation of vacuum, 215 

 by reduction of oxygen, 215 



218 

 cultures, Botkin's apparatus for 



making, 217 

 Buchner's method of making, 217, 



219 



Frank el's method of making, 216 

 Hesse's method of making, 219 

 Liborius' tube for, 216 

 Nichols and Schmitter's method 



of making, 217 

 Novy's jars for, 216 

 Salamonsen's method of making, 



220 



use of hen's eggs for, 220 

 Wright's method of making, 218, 



220 



Zinsser's method of making, 218 

 Anaphylactin, 104 

 Anaphylaxis, 103 



passive, 105 

 Anesthetic leprosy, 703 

 Angina, Vincent's, 433 

 Animal holder, guinea-pig, 225 

 Latapie's, 225 

 mouse, 225 



inoculation with malarial parasites, 

 f 486 



Animalculae, 26 



Animals, experimentation upon, 222 

 method of making injections into, 



224 



of securing blood from, 226 

 post-mortems on, 228 

 typhoid fever in, 599 

 Anjeszky's method of staining spores, 



157 



Anopheles maculipennis, 487, 488 

 larva of, 492 

 pupa of, 492 

 Anthracin, 357 

 Anthrax, 352 



bacillus of, 352. See also Bacillus 



anthmcis 



bacteriologic diagnosis, 361 

 lesions, 359 



malignant pustule of, 359 

 prodigiosus powder for, 361, 362 

 sanitation in, 362 

 serum treatment, 361 



Antianaphylactin, 105 



Antibiosis, influences on growth of 



bacteria, 54 

 Antibody, 97 

 Antiferments, 116 

 Antiformin as disinfectant, 176 



for isolation of tubercle bacillus, 663 

 Antigen, 97 



syphilitic, 279 



titration of, in Wassermann reac- 

 tion, 288 



Anti-immune bodies, 138 

 Antiborper, 426 

 Antiphthisin, 680 

 Antipneumococcus serum, 456 

 Antirabic serum, 380 

 Antisepsis, 23 

 Antiseptics, 167 



action of, results, 251 



determination of value, 251 



inhibition strengths of, 180 

 Antistreptococcus, serum, 316 

 Antistreptokplysin, 315 

 Antitoxin, diphtheria, 128, 426. See 

 also Diphtheria antitoxin 



hypersensitivity to, 127 



tetanus, 131, 349 

 Antitoxins, 125 

 Antitubercle serums, 683 

 Antivenene, 100, 132 

 Anti-venomous serum, 132 

 Argas miniatus, 494 

 Army-fever, 540 

 Arnold's steam sterilizer, 171 

 Aromatics, production of, by bacteria, 



62 



Arthrospores, 33 

 Ascococcus, 35 

 Ascomycetes, 40 

 Asiatic cholera, 568 



discovery of specific organism, 569 

 distribution, 568 

 history, 568 

 prophylaxis, 579 

 sanitation, 580 

 serum treatment, 579 

 Aspergillus, 42 



flavus, 43 



fumigatus, 43 



malignum, 43 



nidulans, 43 



niger, 44 



subfuscus, 44 

 Association, influences of, on growth 



of bacteria, 54 



Atrophic spinal paralysis, 381 

 Auditory meatus, external bacteria in, 



69 

 Autoclave, modern, 172 



sterilization in, 171 

 Autogenous vaccines, 265 



BABES and Cornil's method of staining 



Spirillum cholerae asiaticae, 572 

 Babes-Ernst granules, 31 



