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INDEX. 



Spontaneous generation, 1 



Spores, 9 



Sputum, collection of, 131 



disinfection of, 26 

 Staphylococcus epidermidis al- 

 bus, 42 



pyogenes albus, 42 

 aureus, 42 

 citreus, 42 

 Sterilization, 17 



by 1 boiling, 19 



by dry heat, 18 



by steam, 19 



by steam under pressure, 20 



fractional, 20 



Streptococcus pyogenes, 44 

 Syphilis, 113 



diagnosis of, 116 



manifestations of, 115 



path of infection in, 114 



Tetanus antitoxin, 72 



bacillus, 70 



path of infection, 71 



toxin, 72 



Throat culture, method of tak- 

 ing, 132 



Thrush, fungus of, 103 

 Tinea, circinata, 104 



sycosis, 104 



tonsurans, 104 



trichophyton, 104 

 Toxemia, 34 

 Toxins, 35 



Treponema pallidum, 113 

 Trypanosomes, 120 

 Tubercle bacillus, in exudates, 



93 

 in urine, 92 



Tubercle bacillus, lesions caused 



by, 94 



morphology of, 91 

 paths of infection, 93 

 staining of, 92 

 toxins of, 94 

 Tuberculin reaction, 95 



treatment, 96 

 Tuberculosis, 91 

 Typhoid bacillus, 56 

 in milk, 59 

 in water, 58 

 carriers, 60 



fever, immunity to, 61, 62 

 path of infection, 58 

 prevention of, 60 

 Typhus fever, 129 



Urine, collection of, 130 

 disinfection of, 26 

 tubercle bacillus in, 92 



Varicella, 125 

 Variola, 124 

 Vincent's angina, 117 

 Virulence, 31 



Wassermann reaction, 116 

 Water, bacteria in, 13, 107 



collection of, 132 



filtration of, 109 



purification of, 108 



sewage contamination of, 

 109 



typhoid bacillus in, 58 

 Whooping-cough, 75 

 Widal reaction, 62 



Yeasts, 100 

 Yellow fever, 127 



