INDEX. 



ABBF condenser, 79 



Abbott's bottle for collecting water, 444 

 Abscess, various producers of, 329 

 Achorion Schoenleinii (favus fungus), 435 

 Acid-fast bacilli, 316 

 Acids, from carbohydrates, 100 

 effect of, on bacteria, 111 

 formation of, from alcohol, etc., 101 

 Actinomyces, 418 

 isolation of, 421 

 occurrence in animals, 422 

 Actinomycosis, 418 

 Aerobic bacteria, 41, 105 

 Aerogenes capsulatus, bacillus, 380 

 JSstivo-autumnal parasite of malaria, 506 

 Agar, nutrient, 49 

 Agglutination of bacteria in hanging 



drops, 82 

 nature of substances concerned in, 



175 

 relation between agglutinating and 



bactericidal powers, 184 

 testing of, 82, 175. See also Indi- 

 vidual bacteria. 



Agglutinins, absorption methods for dif- 

 ferentiation of, 181 

 characteristics of, 176 

 group, 177 

 loss of power of bacteria to absorb, 



183 



specific and group, 178 

 A<;glutinoids, 176 

 Aggressins, 539 



Agramonte, on yellow fever, 545 

 Air, bacteriological examination of, 448 

 Alexines, 163, 170 

 Amboceptor, 170 

 Amoeba coli, 477 



biological characteristics of, 479 

 culture of, 479 



examination of stools for, 480 

 Amoebae in diseases other than dysen- 

 tery, 481 

 Amcebina, 470 

 Anaerobic bacteria, 41, 105 



culture methods for, 65 

 Aniline dyes, 69 



basic and acid, 70 

 germicidal properties of, 115 

 oil as mordant, 73 



Animals, use of, for diagnostic and test 

 purposes, 135 



Anopheles maculipennis, 509 

 punctipennis, 509 

 symptomatic, 389 

 Anthrax bacillus, 382 



biological characters of, 384 

 growth in media, 385 

 identification of, 389 

 infection, how caused, 388 



prophylaxis against, 388 

 morphology of, 382 

 non-spore-bearing varieties, 386 

 occurrence, in cattle and sheep, 



387 



in man, 387 



pathogenesis, 386 



spore formation, 386 



bacteriological diagnosis of, 389 



Antibacterial sera, testing power of, 159. 



170 



Antibodies, in general, 155, 162 

 Antiseptic, table of antiseptic values, 116 



action, 107 

 Antisera, 155, 162 

 Antitoxins, absorption of, 161, 229 



Ehrlich's theory for production of, 



164 



elimination of, by the body, 161 

 in general, 155. See also under Diph- 

 theria and Tetanus, 

 methods of administration of, 161 

 nature of, 164 

 other theories as to production of, 



168 



production of, for therapeutic pur- 

 poses, 159 



stability of, in the serum, 161 

 Arnold's steam sterilizer, 48 

 Arrhenius, on diphtheria toxin, 214 

 Arthrospores, 32 



development of, 33 



Atkinson, constitution of diphtheria anti- 

 toxin, 207 



Attenuation of virulence, 39 

 Autoinfection, 152 

 Autopsy of test animals, 136 



B 



! BACILLARY dysentery, 253 

 Bacilli, acid-fast, 316 



general characters of, 27 

 Bacillus. See also under individual 

 names. 



