INDEX OF SUBJECTS 



ABBOTT'S method of staining spores, 



97 



Abscess of liver, due to amebic dysen- 

 tery, 726 



Absorption method in study of agglu- 

 tination reaction, 234 

 Achorion Schoenleinii, 642 



cultivation of, 642 



morphology of, 642 



varieties of, 642 

 Acid formation by bacteria, 166 

 Acid-fast bacteria, stains for, 104 

 Acquired immunity, 192 



definition of, 192 

 Actinomyces, 622 



cultivation of, 623 



discovery of, in cattle, 622 

 in man, 622 



morphology of, 619, 622 



pathogenicity of, 625 

 in animals, 625 

 in man, 625 



parts of body infected in, 625 



staining of, 623 



varieties of, 626 

 Actinomycosis, 625 

 Active immunity. See Immunity 

 Aerobic organisms, facultative, 26 



obligatory, 25 



non-infectiousness of, 183 



respiratory processes of, 27 

 Aestivo-autumnal fever, diagnosis of, 

 with fresh blood, 775 



parasite of, 771 



symptoms of, 776 



Agar for colon-typhoid differentiation, 

 brilliant green, 136 



MacConkey's bile salt, 138 



Russell's double sugar, 138 



Agar for culture media, 127 

 lactose-litmus, 129 

 meat extract, 127 

 meat infusion, 128 

 Agar slants, cultivation of anaerobic 



bacteria on, 153 

 Agglutination reaction, 228 

 between agglutinin and agglutinin- 



stimulating substances, 233 

 clinical diagnosis by, in typhoid, 229 

 concentrated agglutinin in, 235 

 differentiation of bacterial species by, 



229 



upon dead bacteria, 231 

 diluted agglutinins in, 235 

 group agglutination in, 234 

 immune or chief agglutinin in, 234 



upon living bacteria, 231 

 macroscopical observation of, 230 

 for bacterial differentiation, 231 

 major agglutinin in, 234 

 microscopical observation of, 229 



for clinicial diagnosis, 231 

 minor agglutinins in, 234 

 nature of, 228 

 of capsulated bacteria, 13 

 partial agglutinins in, 234 



absorption method in study of, 



234 



proagglutinoid zone in, 235 

 proagglutinoids in, 235 

 pseudo-dumping in, 231 

 specificity of, 234 

 "thread-reaction" in, 231 

 Agglutination tests, technique of, 251 

 macroscopic, 252 

 microscopic, 252 

 Agglutinins, 200, 228 

 action of, 240 



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