INDEX 



Acquired immunity, 73 

 Alcohol as an antiseptic, 41 

 Amoebic dysentery, 140 

 Anopheles, 235 

 Anthrax, 23 

 Antiseptic, definition of, 29 



surgery, 269 

 Antiseptics, 41 

 Antitoxin of diphtheria, 198 

 Antitoxins, 82 



Aseptic surgery, 269 

 Asiatic cholera, 1 10 

 Attenuation of virulence, 64, 78 



Bacilli, 10 



Bacillus of bubonic plague, 101 



diphtheria, 193 



influenza, 200 



leprosy, 182 



tetanus, 273 



tuberculosis, 160 



typhoid fever, 136 

 Bacteria, 37 



multiplication of, II 



structure of, 13 



spores of, 12 

 Bichloride of mercury, 61 

 Black death, 91, 93 

 Bleaching powder, 60 

 Blood-poisoning, 20 



germs of, 265269 



Blood serum, germicidal action 

 68, 268 

 19 



of, 



Breathing exercises, 176 

 Bubonic plague, 89 



bacillus of, 101 



in Philippine Islands, IO2 



mortality from, 94-98 



period of incubation, 105 



prevention of, 108 



protective inoculations, 107 



Carbolic acid as a disinfectant, 59 

 Caustic alkalies as disinfectants, 58 

 Channels of infection, 14 

 Chicken-pox, 221 

 Children, susceptibility of, 25 

 Chloride of lime, 60 

 Chlorin as a germicide, 56, 

 Chlorinated lime, 60 

 Cholera, no 



germs of, 120 



in America, ni-n6 



origin of epidemics, 117, 118 



predisposing causes, llS 



protective inoculations, 124 



recent epidemics, 116 

 Cholera germ, description of, 120 



destruction of, 118, 122 



discovery of, I2O 



infection by, 118, 119 

 Cholera infantum, 140 

 Citric acid as a germicide, 57 

 Climate in treatment of consumption, 



177 

 Clothing, disinfection of, 47 



289 



