688 



INDEX 



Vaccines, preparation of, 133 

 Variola, 567 ct seq. 

 Vegetable poisons, 196 

 Venins, 197 

 Vibrio (see also Spirillum), 15 



berolinensis, 462 



of cholera, 447 



Danubicus, 462 



Deneke's, 465 



Finkler and Prior's, 464 



Gindha, 463 



Ivanoff, 462 



Massowah, 454, 462 



Metchnikovi, 464 



Nordhafen, 464 



of Pestana and Bettencourt, 463 



Romanus, 463 

 Vibrion septique, 433 

 Vincent's bacillus, 444 

 Virulence, attenuation of, 515 



exaltation of, 517 



of bacteria, 176 

 Voges and Proskauer's reaction, 



353 



Volpino on smallpox, 571 

 Von Pirquet's test, 285 



Wassermann reaction in syphilis, 

 131, 510 



in general paralysis, 510 



in leprosy, 304 

 Water, bacteria in, 156 



contamination of, by sewage, 

 169 



examination of, 156 



supplies, typhoid bacilli in, 378 

 Weichselbaum on pneumonia, 226 

 Weigert's method of dehydration, 

 100 



modification of Gram's method, 



106 

 Whooping-cough, bacteria in, 472 



culture methods, 43, 44, 473 



inoculation experiments, 474 



methods of examination, 475 



pathogenic effects, 474 



serum reaction, 474 

 W T idal on serum diagnosis, 541 



Widal's reaction, synonym for 

 agglutination of b. typhosus, 

 q.v., 118, 382 

 Williams and Lowden on Negri 



bodies, 576 

 Winogradski, 24 

 Winslow and Rogers on coccacea?, 



140 



Winter-spring fevers, 595 

 Wolff and Israel's streptothrix, 326 

 Woodhead on tuberculosis, 283 

 Woody tongue, 323 

 Woolsorter's disease, 343 

 Wright's, A. E., bactericidal 



method, 127 

 calibrated pipette, 117 

 diluting pipette, 71 

 method of counting dead bacteria, 



133 



opsonie technique, 122 

 vaccination against tuberculosis. 



291 

 vaccination treatment of pyo- 



genic infections, 222 

 Wright, J. H., on anaerobic 



streptothrices, 324 

 on Leishmania tropica, 63 

 Romanowsky stain, 113 



Xerosis bacillus, 411 

 Xylol, 100 



Yaws, spirochsetes in, 511 

 Yellow fever, 639 



bacteria in, 640 



etiology of, 640 



mosquitoes in relation to, 641 

 Yersin (see also Roux) on plague, 



475, 486 

 Yersin 's anti-plague serum, 487 



Ziehl-Neelsen stain, 108 



Fraenkel's modification, 108 

 Ziemanni, spirillum, 616 

 Zone phenomena in agglutination, 



543, 545 

 Zoogloea, 3 

 Zygote (malaria), 592 



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