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Index 



Plague pneumonia, 5 1 2 

 sanitation in. 595 

 serum, 596, 597 

 swine, bacillus of, 601 

 Planococcus, 38 

 Planosarcina, 39 

 Plasmodium falciparum, 529, 537 



gametocytes of, 538 

 malariae, 525, 529, 532 

 gametocytes of, 534 

 spores of, 429 

 vivax, 529, 534 



developmental cycle, 530 

 gametocytes of, 536 

 Plasmolysis, 35 

 Plate cultures, 242, 246 

 apparatus, 247 

 Esmarch's tubes for making, 



250 



method, 247 



Petri's dishes for making, 249 

 Platinum needles for transferring 



bacteria, 243 

 wires for bacteriologic use, 243 



sterilization of, 203 

 Pneumobacillus, 507 

 Pneumococcus, 492, 507 

 cultivation, 509 

 distribution, 508 

 Hiss' inulin-serum-water test for 



determining, 505 

 infections in adults, statistics, 



501, 502 



metabolic products, 510 

 morphology, 509 

 pathogenesis, 510 

 virulence, 512 

 vital resistance, 510 

 Pneumonia, 492 

 broncho-, 512 

 catarrhal, 512 

 complicating, 513 

 croupous, 492 

 lesions, 501 

 lobar, 492 

 mixed, 513 

 plague, 512 

 sanitation in, 507 

 tubercular, 512 

 Pneumonias, complicating, 513 



mixed, 513 



Pneumonic plague, 512 

 Poisoning, food-, 298 

 from canned goods, 299 

 cheese-, 299 

 fish-, 299 

 ice-cream, 299 

 meat-, 69, 299 

 milk-, 298 



Poisoning, mussel-, 299 



Poisons, food, 298 



Polar granules, 34 



Polyadenitis, malignant, 581 



Polyceptor, 147 



Ponos, 571 



Postmortems, 275 



Potassium permanganate as germi- 

 cide, 214 



Potato as culture-media, 237 

 cultures upon, 256 

 cutter, Ravenel's, 238 



Potato-juice as culture-media, 238 



Precipitate, specific, 146 



Precipitation, globulin, for concen- 

 tration of diphtheria serum, 



159 



specific, 146 



Precipitins, specific, 140 

 Predisposition, 101 

 Prescott and Winslow's method of 



preparing litmus, 239 

 Prior and Kinkier 's spirillum, 619 

 Prodigiosus powder, 410 

 Proteids, defensive, 128 

 Proteus infection, 369 

 Protista, 29 

 Protozoa, 51 



cilia of, 56 



classification, 51 



cytoplasm of, 53 



encystment, 57 



influence of food on growth of, 



60 

 of light on growth of, 61 



living, observation of, 194 



movements of, 55 



nucleus of, 55 



pathogenic, classification of, 51 



reproduction of, 56 



size of, 56 



staining, 195. See also Staining 

 protozoa. 



structure, 53 

 Pseudodiphtheria bacillus, 468, 470, 



474. See also Bacillus, pseudo- 

 diphtheria. 



Pseudodysentery bacillus, 699 

 Pseudoglanders bacillus, 784 

 Pseudo-influenza bacillus, 519 

 Pseudomonas, 40 

 Pseudotetanus bacillus, 399 

 Pseudotuber.culosis, 760 

 Psittacosis, 677 

 Ptomains, 68 



definition of, 68 

 Pulex cheopis, 593 



irritans, 593 

 Pure culture, 242, 252 



