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INDEX 



Pneumonia, serum and vaccine 



treatment, 77 

 Poliomyelitis, 179 



mode of transmission, 179 



quarantine in, 61 



virus of, 125 

 Pott's disease, 90 

 Precipitins, nature of, 73 

 Pressure, steam, in sterilizing, 46 

 Protozoa, definition of, 13 



in certain diseases, 126 

 Purulent infiltration, 51 

 Pyocyaneus, bacillus of, 171 



QUARANTINE in control of infec- 

 tious diseases, 59 



Quartan malaria, parasite of, 127 



Quicklime, effect of, on bacteria, 

 39 



Quinin in malaria, 128 



RABIES, treatment of, 78 



virus of, 125 



Rags as vehicles of infection, 55 

 Rashes after serum injections, 74 

 Rats, destruction of, by sulphur 

 fumigation, 40 



in spread of plague, 173 

 Rheumatism, bacteriology of, 49 

 Rinderpest, virus of, 125 

 Rose spots in typhoid fever, 79 



SARCOMA, mixed toxins for, 108 

 Scarlet fever and antistreptococ- 



cus serum, 107 

 quarantine in, 60 

 virus of, 120 

 Schick reaction, 98 

 Serum therapy, 75 

 Skin as protection against bac- 

 teria, 65 

 Sleeping sickness, 129 



Small-pox, 122 

 quarantine in, 61 



Snuffles in syphilis, 118 



Soor, 179 



Sour milk, bacteriology of, 136 



Spirilla, definition of, 15 



Spirillum of cholera, 86 



Spores, character of, 16 



Sputum, collection of, for exam- 

 ination, 165 



Squirrels in spread of plague, 173 



Staining of bacteria, 25 



Staphylococcus, definition of, 15 

 pyogenes, 109 



Steam, effect of, on bacteria, 43 

 for disinfection, 46 

 for sterilization, 43, 153 



Stegomyia in relation to yellow 

 fever, 128 



Sterilization by heat, 42 

 by steam, 43, 153 

 of instruments, etc., 151 

 with chemicals, 157 



Stitch abscess, 110 



Stools, collection of, 167 

 disinfection of, 38, 39 



Streptococci in milk, 134 



Streptococcus, definition of, 15 

 hemolyzing, 106 

 infections, serum or vaccines 



in, 78 

 pyogenes, 105 



Sulphur for fumigation, 40, 162 



Sunlight, influence of, on bac- 

 teria, 19 



Swelled head, 141 



Syphilis, bacteriology of, 117 

 Wassermann test in, 119 



TAPEWORMS, 148 

 Temperature, influence of, on 

 growth of bacteria, 19 



