INDEX. 



ABBE condenser, 31 

 Abrin, 174, 181 

 Abscesses, 235, 245 



metastatic, 242 

 Absorbent cotton, 82, 92, 219 

 Acetic acid, 40, 52, 130 

 Accidental infection of laboratory 



workers, 115 

 Acid, acetic, 40, 52, 130 



alcohol, 42, 45 



aniline dyes, 39 



boric, 207 



butyric, 130, 224 



carbolic, 200, 129, 197, 220 



formic, 130 



fuchsin, 39 



hydrochloric, 154, 199, 201 



lactic, 130, 145, 227 



oxalic, 212 



picric, 39 



propionic, 130 



pyrogallic in cultivating anae- 

 robes, 92 



rosolic, 79 

 Acid-proof bacilli, 43, 46, 149, 154, 



287, 295, 301 



Acids, formation by bacteria, 130 

 Actinomyces, 299, 229, 230, 287, 295 

 Actinomycosis, 300 

 Acquired immunity, 176 

 Active immunity, 181 

 Acute miliaiy tuberculosis, 293 

 Addiment, 188 



Aerobic bacteria, definition, 126 

 Aerobioscope, 136 

 Agar-agar, 76 



Age, relation to infections, 166 

 Agglutinating substances in blood- 

 serum, 191, 305 

 Agglutinins, 191, 305 

 Air, bacteria of, 135 



bacteria conveyed by, 163 

 Albumen, culture-media containing, 

 81 



Albumen, fixative, 50 

 Alcohol, acid, 42, 45 



fixation of tissues by, 48 



relation to infection, 166, 191 

 A.exins, 188, 190 



Alimentary canal, bacteria of, 154 

 Alum filter, 139 

 Amboceptor, 188 

 American filtration system, 139 

 American Public Health Ass'n, di- 

 rections for preparing media, 73 

 Amoeba coli, 328, 329 



of dysentery, 328 

 Anaerobic bacteria, cultivation, 91 



definition, 126 

 Aniline dyes, 39 



alcoholic solutions, 39 

 as germicides, 201 

 watery solutions, 39 



oil, 41, 53 



-water solutions, 41, 46 

 Animals, autopsies on, 105 



care of, 103, 104 



inoculation of, 96, 103 

 Anopheles, 165, 332 

 Anthrax bacillus (see also Bacillus 

 of anthrax), 273 



protective inoculation, 178,276 



symptomatic, 178 

 Antiseptic, definition, 194 

 Antitoxic unit, 286 

 Antitoxins, 180, 184 



for diphtheria, 285, 180, 186, 



272 



tetanus, 180, 186, 272 

 Argentamin, 200 

 Argonin, 200 

 Argyrol, 200 



Arnold steam sterilizer, 64 

 Arrow-poisons, bacteria in, 16, 133 

 Arthritis, 242, 254, 260 

 Arthrospore, 123 

 Asiatic cholera (see Cholera) 

 Aspergillus glaucus, 233 



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