INDEX 



Abscesses, oacterial examination of Animal inoculation, 61 



material from, 105 

 Achorion schoenleinii, 274 

 Acid, test for production of, 60 

 Acid-fast bacteria, 47, 188, 189, 198 

 Acids as disinfectants, 21 

 Actinomyces, 267, 268 



cultivation of, 269 



mode of infection by, 270 



pathogenesis of, 270 



resistance of, 270 

 Actinomycosis, 268 

 ^Edes calopus mosquito, 303 

 Aerobes, 15 



facultative, 15 



obligatory, 15 

 African horse sickness, 307 

 Agar plates, growth on, 59 

 Agar slant, growth on, 59 

 Agglutination reaction, macroscopic, 137 



microscopic, 137 



towards meningococcus, 171 

 Agglutinins, 126, 127, 136 

 Aggressins, 113 

 Alcohol, as disinfectant, 19 

 Aleppo boil, 288 

 Alexin, 128 



Allergic skin reactions, 151 

 Allergy, 150 

 Ameba, 279 

 Ameba coli, 282 

 Ameba gingivalis, 282 

 Ameba histolytica, 280 



cultivation of, 281 -, 



examination of feces for, 281 

 Amebic dysentery, 217, 280 . 

 Amphitricha, 10 

 Anaerobes, 15 



cultivation of, 58 



facultative, 15 



obligatory, 15 



pathogenic, 242 



wound, differentiation of, 248 

 Anaphylactic shock, 151 



skin reaction, 152 

 Anaphylaxis, 150 



serum, 151 



cutaneous, 62 



intracutaneous, 62 



intraperitoneal, 62 



intravenous, 62 



methods of, 62 



miscellaneous, 63 



subcutaneous, 62 

 Animals and plants, interdependence of, 



65 

 Anopheles mosquito, 291 



differentiated from culex, 293, 295 

 Anthrax, 221 



bacillus of , 22 1 , and see Bacillus anthracis 

 in soil, 69 



intestinal, 224 

 Antibiosis, 17 

 Antibodies, 123, 124 



relation to antigens, 142 



three orders of, 126, 128 

 Antiformin, as disinfectant, 21 

 Antigens, 123 



relation to antibodies, 142 

 Antiseptic action, 17 

 Antitoxin, 126 

 Antitoxins, 114, 126 



production of, for therapeutic purposes, 

 117 



standardization of, 118 



unit of, 118, 121 

 Arnold steam sterilizer, 28 

 Ascomycetes, 272 

 Ascus, 272 

 Aspergillus, 273 

 Atricha, 10 

 Attenuation, 17 

 Autoclave, 26 

 Autogenous infection, 95 



vaccines, 148 

 Autolysis, 112 

 Autopsy on animals, 63 

 Azobacter, 68 



Babesia, 279, 289 

 Bacillary dysentery, 217 

 Bacilli, 4 



capsulated, 205 



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