INDEX 



ABRIN, 54; action on conjunctiva, 108 



Abscess, cure of, 349 



Absorption of complement. See Fixa- 

 tion of complement 



Acne, 358 



Acquired immunity, 19 



Active immunity, 20. See Glossary 



Addiment, 143. See Glossary 



Adsorption, 90, 392 



Age in relation to immunity, 8 



Agglutination : by chemical substances, 

 211 ; mechanism of, 212; salts in, 

 209, 326 



Agglutinins, 204 (see Glossary) ; action 

 of heat on, 205 ; chemical nature of, 

 214 ; to B. diphtheria, 409 ; to B. 

 dysenteria, 398 ; effects of tempera- 

 ture on, 208, 216 ; formation of, 208 ; 

 in normal blood, 99 ; to gonococci, 

 368 ; mechanism of action, 212 ; to 

 meningococci, 372 ; to pneumococci, 

 365 ; relation with cytolysins, 207 ; 

 role in immunity, 208 ; sensitiveness 

 of bacteria to, 219; specificity of, 205, 

 217; tostaphylococci, 359; to strepto- 

 cocci, 360; to tubercle bacilli, 383; to 

 typhoid bacilli, 389 ; to V. cholera, 400 



Agglutinogen, 210. See Glossary 



Agglutinoids, 47, 210, 216, 323. See 

 Glossary 



Aggressins, 291 (see Glossary) ; speci- 

 ficity of, 292 



Air, vitiated, 12 



Albumoses in bacterial cultures, 54 



Alcohol, 13 



Alexins, 139 (see Glossary) ; source of, 

 179 



Allergia, 308 



Amboceptor. 141 (see Glossary) ; action 

 as opsonin, 285 ; formation of, 147 ; 

 methods of investigating, 185; source 

 of, 184 



Amoeba, phagocytosis in, 238 



Anaesthesia. 12 



Anaphylaxis, 309. See Glossary 



Anaphylactin, 313 



Anthrax bacilli : immunity to, 405 ; 

 phagocytosis of, 244, 250, 252 ; 

 prophylaxis, 23, 407 ; toxins of, 405 ; 

 treatment of, 408 ; vaccination 

 against, 18, 23, 407 



Anti-abrin, 108 



Anti-agglutinin, 219 



Anti-aggressin, 292 



Anti-amboceptor, 160 



Anti-antibodies, 104 

 j Anti-autolysin, 150 



Antibodies, site of production of, 105,351 



Anticomplement, 157 



Anticrotin, 327 



And enzymes, 48 



Anti-epithelial serum, 197 



Antigen, 101. See Glossary 



Antihsemolysin, 109 



Anti-intestinal serum, 195 



Antileucolysin, 50 



Antileucotoxin, 190 



Antilysin, 160 



Antispermotoxin, 109, 160 



Antistaphylolysin, 52, 358 



Antistreptocolysin, 360 



Antitoxin : administration by mouth, 

 131 ; formation of, 60, 97, 114; in 

 normal blood, 93, 99 ; production by 

 toxoids, 99 ; reactions with toxin, 69 ; 

 role in immunity, 119; role in re- 

 covery, 119 ; unit of, 72 



Antituberculin, 161, 307 



Arsenic, absorption by leucocytes, 113 



Arthus' phenomenon, 311. See Glossary 



Atoxyl in trypanosomiasis, 6, 16 



Atreptic immunity, 35. See Glossary 



Atropin, absorption by leucocytes, 113 



Aqueous humour, opsonin in, 286 



Auto-agglutinin, 104, 222 



Auto-anticomplement, 158 



Autohsemolysin, 149. See Glossary 



Auto-inoculation, 268, 382 



Autonephrotoxin, 192 



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