INDEX. 



347 



Plants, diseases of, 16, 158 

 Plasmodium of malaria, 330 

 staining of, 55, 109 

 Plasmolysis, 121 

 Plate-cultures, 96 

 Platinum wire, 33 



rules for use, 33, 85 

 Pleuritis, 241, 245, 247, 254 

 Pleuro-pneumonia of cattle, 161 

 Plugs, cotton, for tubes, etc., 82, 92 

 Pneumococcus of Frankel (see also 



Micrococcus lanceolatus), 251 

 Pneumonia, broncho-, 241, 247, 254, 



261, 263, 285, 301, 308 

 croupous, 241, 253, 261 

 diagnosis, 254, 255 

 Pneumonomycosis, 233 

 Poisoning by food, 146, 150 

 Porcelain filter, 69 

 Post-mortems, disinfection at, 105, 



1 06, 209 



Post-office rules for mailing speci- 

 mens of bacteria, no 

 Potassium permanganate, 207, 212 

 Potato as a culture-medium, 78 

 invisible growth on, 303 

 bacillus, 224, 95, 113, 123, 146 

 Precipitins, 192 



Predisposition to infection, 166 

 Products, bacterial, 128, 146, 150, 



172 



Propionic acid, 130 

 Protargol, 200 

 Protective inoculation, 177 



for anthrax, 178, 276 

 for blackleg of cattle, 178 

 for bubonic plague, 267, 179 

 for Asiatic cholera, 320 

 for erysipelas of swine, 178 

 for fowl-cholera, 178 

 for hvdrophobia or rabies, 



179 



for small-pox, 20, 177 

 for tuberculosis, 295 

 for typhoid fever, 309 

 Proteus mirabilis, 264 

 vulgaris, 264 

 Zenkeri, 264 



Protozoa, pathogenic, 328, 27, 165 

 Pseudo-gonococcus, 258 



-diphtheria bacillus, 283 

 -membranous inflammations, 

 247, 254, 282, 284, 315 



30 



Pseudo-pneumococcus, 255 



-tuberculosis, 296 

 Ptomaine poisoning, 150 

 Ptomaines, 173 

 Puerperal fever, 21, 247, 284 

 Pure cultures, 25, 96, 101 

 Pus, blue, 263 



-cells, 236 



formation, 236 



green, 263 



samples of, 108, no 

 Putrefaction, 23, 131 

 Pyemia, 242 

 Pyocyanin, 173, 262 

 Pyogenic bacteria, 237 

 Pyoktanin, 201 

 Pyosalpinx, 260 



Pyrogallic acid for cultivating anae- 

 robes, 92 

 Pyroxylin, 48 



QUARANTINE, 19 



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RABIES, 179, 160 

 Racial immunity, 177 



predisposition to infec- 

 tion, 167 

 Rats, acid-proof bacilli of, 295 



relation to bubonic plague, 267 

 Ranschbrand, 178 

 Ray-fungus of actinomycosis, 299 

 Reactions of culture-media, 71, 74, 



126 



Receptor, 185 

 Recovery from infectious disease, 



171, 176, 189 



Reichert's gas-regulator, 89 

 Relapsing fever, spirillum, 326 

 Rheumatic fever, 160, 242 

 Rheumatism, 160, 242 

 Rhinoscleroma, bacillus, 261 

 Ricin, 174, 181 

 Ripening of cream, 148 

 Roll-tubes of Esmarch, 99 

 Rooms, disinfection, 209, 201, 204, 



206 



Root-tubercle organisms, 134 

 Rosolic acid, 79 

 Rougct, 178 

 Rubber caps for culture-tubes, 86, 



9i 

 gloves, 214 



