446 



INDEX 



M 



Macrocytase, 152, 254. See Glossary 



Macrophage, 247. See Glossary 



Malaria, immunity to, 33 



Mallein, 303 



Malta fever, 374 ; treatment of, 375 



Meats, recognition of, 237 



Meningococcus, toxins of, 371 ; phago- 

 cytosis of, 371 



Meningitis : serum treatment, 373 ; 

 vaccine treatment, 374 



Micrococcus melitensis, agglutination of, 



375 



Microcytase, 152, 254. See Glossary 

 Microphage, 247. See Glossary 

 Minimal lethal dose, 42 

 Monospora, phagocytosis of, 239, 240 

 Mytilo-congestine, 309 



N 



Nasik vibrio, toxin of, 41 

 Natural immunity, 7 

 Negative phase, 62 (see Glossary) ; in 



opsonic index, 274 ; summation of, 



276 

 Neisser-Wechsberg phenomenon, 173, 



323. See Glossary. 

 Nephrotoxin, 192. See Glossary 

 Nerves, peripheral, cytolytic serum for, 



196 



Neutralization of poison?, 116 

 Neurotoxin, 196 

 New tuberculin, 384 

 Nicotin, absorption by liver, 116 

 Nitrites, production of, in cholera, 37 

 Nucleo-proteids as antigens, 192 



Ophthalmo-reaction, 303, 304, 382 



Ophthalmotoxic serum, 197 



Opsonic index, 261 ; in acute diseases, 

 265; in chronic diseases, 268; in 

 diphtheria, 267 ; effect of dilution of 

 serum, 264 ; effect of vaccines, 274 ; 

 in erysipelas, 270 ; false rise in, 274 ; 

 to gonococci, 270 ; to meningococci, 

 371 ; pre-agonal rise in, 280 ; to 

 pneumococci, 265, 361, 365 ; in 

 staphylococcic diseases, 266 ; tubercle 

 bacilli, 268, 382 



" Opsonins-therapy," 277 ; in tubercle, 



385 



Opsonins: etTect of temperature on their 

 action, 295 ; fundamental experi- 

 ments on, 257 ; Metchnikoffs views 

 on, 289 ; nature of, 273 ; origin of, 

 288 ; presence in plasma, 286, 333 : 

 specificity of, 270 ; thermostability, 

 259, 282 ; technique of researches on, 

 259-264; thermolabile, 285 ; thermo- 

 stable, 259, 282 



Orthophosphoric acid, agglutination by, 



216 

 Osteomyelitis, 358 



Passage, 15, 219 



Passive immunity, 26. See Glossary 



Peritoneum, phagocytosis in, 248, 250, 



35 2 



Perlsucht tuberculin, 384 



Pfeiffer's phenomenon, 141. See Glos- 

 sary 



Phagocytic index, 260 



Phagocytosis, 238 et seq.; action of 

 salts in, 297; in circulating blood, 

 333 ; in peritoneum, 248, 250, 352 ; 

 influence of source of leucocytes, 290 ; 

 influence of temperature, 295 ; influ- 

 ence of virulence, 343 ; nature of, 295 



Phagolysis, 181, 353 



Philocytase, 141 



Phthisis, 12 



Pigmentolysin, 197 



Piroplasma bigeminum, 21 



Pirquet's (von) reaction, 303, 381 



Placentolysin, 195 



Plague, 402 ; prophylaxis of, 403 ; 

 serum treatment of, 403 



Plasma, complement in, 182; opsonin 

 in, 286, 333 



Pleuralistic conception, 151 



Pleuropneumonia of cattle, 22 



Pneumonia. See Pneumococci 



Pneumococci : agglutinins to, 365 ; 

 immunity to, 365 ; in childhood, 8 ; 

 opsonic index to, 266 ; serum treat- 

 ment, 366 ; vaccine treatment, 366 ; 

 virulence, 366 



Poisons : difference from toxins, 37 ; 

 neutralization of, 116 



Polyceptor. See Glossary 



Polyvalent serum, 363 (see Glossary) ; 



vaccine (see Glossary) 

 ! Positive phase, 62. See Glossary 

 : Potato bacillus, phagocytosis of, 248 

 j Precipitins, 226 (see Glossary) ; speci- 

 ficity of, 232, 235 



Precipitoid, 228, 323. See Glossary 



Precipitogenoid, 231. See Glossary 



Predisposing causes, 9 



Preparator, 141. See Glossary 



Pro-agglutinin, 210 



Prostatotoxin, 196 



Proteids, coagulation of, 321 



Prototoxin, 75 



Prototoxoid, 73 



Pro-zones, 216, 323. See Glossary 



Pus, enzymes of, 337 



Pyocyaneus (B. ) : antagonism to anthrax, 

 40 ; toxin of, 57 



Pyocyanolysin, 53 



