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Index 



Petruschkey's whey, 199 



Pfeiffer's method of staining bacteria, 



u 151 

 phenomenon, 101 



Phagocytes, 106 



Phagocytic power of blood, 270 



Phagocytosis, Metschnikoff's theory 



of, 106 



Phagolysis, 107 



Phenol coefficient, technic of deter- 

 mining, 258-261 

 Phenomenon, Bordet-Gengou, 139 



Neisser-Wechsberg's, 136 



Pfeiffer's, 101 



Theobald Smith's, 103 

 Phlogosin, 305 

 Phosphorescence, production of, by 



bacteria, 62 

 Photogens, 57 



Phthirius inguinalis, 504, 505 

 Phycomycetes, 40 

 Phylaxins, 108 

 Pied de Madurae, 741 

 Pig typhoid, 625 

 Pink eye, 406 

 Piorkowski's method of cultivation of 



Bacillus typhosus, 608 

 Pipet, opsonizing, 274 



special blood, 274 

 Pitfield's method of staining flagella, 



159 



modification, Smith's, 159 

 Pityriasis versicolor, 752 

 Placenta, infection through, 74 

 with tubercle bacillus, 669 

 Plague, 543 

 buboes in, 544 

 characteristics, 544 

 death-rate, 544 

 diagnosis," 555 

 experimental infection, 550 

 fleas, 559 



breeding habits, 560 

 life history, 559 

 longevity, 560 



method of extermination, 560 

 table for identification, 563 

 varieties, 560, 561, 562 

 group of micro-organisms, 563 

 history, 543 

 immunity against, 557 

 active, 557 



Haffkine prophylactic, for, 557 

 passive, 558 

 pneumonia, 461 



postmortem appearance in, 555 

 prophylaxis, 557 

 rat extermination in, 557 

 sanitation in ; 556 

 serum treatment, 559 

 specific organism, 545 

 spread of, 543 



transmission by fleas, 553, 554 

 by flies, 552 

 by lice, 553 



Plague, by rats, 550, 551, 553 



varieties, 545 

 Planococcus, 34 

 Planosarcina, 34 

 Plasmodium falciparum, 482 



gametocytes of, 483 

 malariae, 471, 478 

 gametocytes of, 479 

 meroblasts of, 479 

 spores of, 477 

 vivax, 471, 479 



developmental cycle of, 476 

 gametocytes of, 481 

 Plasmolysis, 31 

 Plate cultures, 204 



disadvantages of, 206 

 leveling apparatus for making, 205 

 of Koch, 201 



Platinum needles for transferring bac- 

 teria, 202 

 wires for bacteriologic use, 202 



sterilization of, 169, 202 

 Pneumobacillus, 457. See also Pneu- 



mococcus 



Pneumococcus, 444, 457 

 cultivation, 458 

 distribution, 457 

 general characteristics, 457 

 Hiss' inulin-serum-water test for de- 

 termining, 455 

 morphology, 458 

 pathogenesis, 459 

 virulence, 461 

 vital resistance, 459 

 Pneumonia, 444 



bacteriologic diagnosis, 454 

 broncho-, 461 

 catarrhal, 461 

 croupous, 444 

 lobar, 444 

 mixed, 461 

 plague, 461 

 sanitation in, 456 

 tuberculous, 461 

 Poisoning, cheese-, 247 

 fish-, 248 



from canned goods, 248 

 ice-cream, 247 

 meat-, 247 

 milk-, 247 

 mussel-, 248 

 Poisons, food, 247 

 Polar granules of bacteria, 31 

 Poliomyelitis, acute anterior, 381 . 

 See also Acute anterior poliomyelitis 

 Polyadenitis, malignant, 543 . See also 



Plague 



Polyvalent vaccines, 317 

 Ponos, 530 



Post-mortems on animals, 228 

 Potassium permanganate as disinfect- 

 ant, 178 



Potato, cultures on, 211 

 Potato-cutter, Ravenel, 198 

 Potato- juice as culture-medium, 198 



