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INDEX OF SUBJECTS 



Saprophytes, 23 

 Salvarsan, 243-255 



chemical formula and properties, 243- 



244 



therapy in hen spirillosis, 244 

 therapy in relapsing fever, 244 

 therapy in syphilis of man, 245-255 

 therapy in other diseases, 245-246 

 Salvarsan therapy in human syphilis, 245-255 

 action, 245, 246 

 combined with mercurial therapy, 245, 



246 



contraindications, 248 

 harmful effects, 246, 248 

 mode of application, 248-255 

 intramuscular, 253-254 

 intravenous, 248, 249-253 

 subcutaneous, 253-254 

 neuro-recurrences in, 247 

 value in parasyphilitic diseases, 246 

 Scarlet fever, 124, 166, 173, 185, 246 

 Scorpion poison, 96, 100 

 Scrofulous reaction to tuberculin, 50 

 Seiden peptone, 155, 228 

 Selenium, 255-256 

 Sensitized bacteria, 70, 143 



advantages of, 70 

 Sensitized tuberculin, 70-71 

 Sepsis, 113, 221, 237 

 of guinea pigs, 22 

 of rabbits, 21, 23 

 Serum, color, 15 



bacteriolytic, 231 

 obtaining of, 12, 13, 79 

 preservation of, 15, 16, 79 

 value in therapy, 231-232 

 Serum diagnosis; see under individual infec- 

 tious diseases and under "Comple- 

 ment fixation" 

 of malignant tumors, 216 



antitrypsin test, 122-124, 217 

 Freund-Kaminer reaction, 217-218 

 Meiostagmine reaction, 218-220 

 of meningitis, 175-177 

 of syphilis, 123, 124. see under "com- 

 plement fixation" 

 "Serum fast," 233 

 Serum sickness, 83, 223, 226-227 

 Serum therapy, 231-239 

 in anthrax, 239 

 in cholera, 239 

 in diphtheria, 83-84 

 in erysipelas, 236, 237 

 in hay fever, 229-230 

 in meningitis, 234-236 

 in pest, 238 

 in pneumonia, 237 

 in puerperal fever, 237 

 in rheumatism, 236 

 in scarlet fever, 236, 237 

 in sepsis, 237 



in strep tococcic infections, 236-237 

 in tetanus, 88 



in tuberculosis, 162, 233, 238 

 in typhoid fever, 239 

 in ulcus serpens, 237 

 Sessile receptors, 160, 161 

 Side chain theory, 158-160 



"Simultaneous method," 30, 31, 77, 238 



definition, 31 

 Small-pox, 25 



Smith's phenomenon, 222-223 

 Snake poison, 96-100 



serum, 100 

 Specificity, i, 5, 54, 105, no, 125, 134 



of Koch subcutaneous reaction, 56 



of ophthalmo reaction, 57 



of v. Pirquet reaction, 55 



of tuberculin reaction, 54 

 Spermatoxin, 151 

 Spider poison, 96 

 Spirillosis of fowls, 246 

 Spirochete infections, 240 

 Standard loop, 8 

 Staphylococci, 31, 44, 92, 199, 200, 205 



vaccine, 209-210 

 Staphylohemotoxin, 92-94 

 Staphylolysin, 92-94 

 Sterilisatio Magna, 240, 245 



mode of action, 240-241 

 Strauss canula, 13 

 Street virus, 27 

 Streptococci, 32, 173, 206 



sera, 236-237 



vaccine, 211-238 



Subcutaneous tuberculin injections, 45-49, 56 

 Substance sensibilisatrice, 133; see "ambo- 



ceptor," "bacteriolysin" 

 Summation of antigen, 156, 157, 174 

 Swine erysipelas, 30 



pest, 36, 40, 41, 42, 43 

 Syphilis, 123, 124; see "atoxyl, ' salvarsan, 



"complement fixation." 

 System of hemolysis tests, 147 



Tabes dorsalis, 164, 165 

 Tauruman, 30, 71 

 Tebesapin, 72 

 Tetanolysin, 86, 87 

 Tetanospasmin, 86, 87 

 Tetanus, 86, 87 



antitoxin, 88 



cerebral, 86 



sine tetano, 86 



Thermolabile substances in serum, 15, 16, 133 

 Thermoresistant substances in serum, 15, 109, 



i33 



Thyroid, 102 

 Titration of antigen, 178, 179, 185 



of bacteriolytic serum, 137 



of complement, 150 



of hemolysin, 146-149 



of luetic sera, 179-182 



of virulence of cultures, 34 

 Toad poison, 96 

 Toxins, 74-104, 147 



action of, 74, 75 



definition, 85 



dilution of, 18 



obtaining of, 74-75 



titration of, 76 



of higher plants and animals, 95-101 

 Toxoids, 81, 147 

 Toxolipoids, 100 

 Toxon, 80 

 Toxophore group, 147, 159 



