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INDEX 



Clothing, infection through, 18 

 Coal-tar products as germicides, 59 

 Cold, action of, on bacteria, 46 

 Colonies of bacteria, 1 1 

 Comma bacillus, 120 

 Contagion, definition of, 3 

 Corrosive sublimate as a disinfectant, 



61 



Creolin as a disinfectant, 60 

 Cresol as a disinfectant, 60 

 Culture experiments, 37 



fluids, 38 



Cuspidors for consumptive patients, 

 171, 172 



Deodorants, 30 

 Desiccation of bacteria, 46 

 Diphtheria, 191 



animals susceptible to, 192 



antitoxin of, 198 



bacillus of, 193 



disinfection in, 195 



mortality from, 194 



prevention of, 195 



propagation of, 191 

 Diphtheria bacillus, 193 



destruction of, 195 



discovery of, 192 



varieties of, 192 

 Disease germs. 8 



dates of discovery, 148 

 Disinfectant, definition of, 28 

 Disinfection, 28 



by gases, 51 



evidence of, 34 



in bubonic plague, 108 



in cholera, 122, 123 



of bed-linen, 60 



of clothing, 47 



of excreta, 47, 60 



of sick-room, 51-53, 174 



of sputa, 171 



tests of, 32 



Dry heat as a disinfectant, 44 

 Dust, infection through, 16, 51 

 Dysentery, 140 



mortality from, 141 . 



Ehrlich's side chain theory, 85 

 Electric light, germicidal action of, 49 

 Epidemics, termination of, 99 

 Eruptive fevers, 17 

 Erysipelas, germ of, 266, 267 

 Excreta, disinfection of, 47, 60 



Famine fever, 151 



Filth diseases, 103, 126 



Flies, as carriers of infection, 18 



Fomites, 3 



Formaldehyd as a disinfectant, 54 



Fumigation, 53 



German measles, 233 

 Glanders, 24 



Heat, disinfection by, 43 

 Hospital gangrene, 19 

 Hydrophobia, 279 



mortality from, 282 



Pasteur's experiments, 283 



period of incubation, 279 



prevention of, 281 



protective inoculations, 283-288 



susceptible animals, 280 



transmission of, 284 



Immunity, acquired, 73 



due to alkalinity of blood, 67 



due to body temperature, 66 



natural, 63 



Infection, definition of, 4, 7 



general remarks upon, 3 

 Influenza, 199 



bacillus of, 200 



bacillus, destruction of, 204 



complications of, 200 



epidemics of, 200-202 



