554 



INDEX 



Pseudoworm, 440 

 Psittacosis bacillus, 248 

 Psychrophilic bacteria, 43 

 Ptomaines, 91 

 Pure cultures, 62 



in tubed media, 63 

 Pustule, malignant, 387 

 Putrefaction, 98 

 Pyocyaneus, bacillus, 374 

 Pyocyanin, 92 

 Pyogenic cocci, 329 

 Pyrosoma, 514 



QUARTAN parasite of malaria, 508 

 Quarter evil, 389 



RABIES, 441, 530 



cauterization of wounds in, 537 

 Negri bodies in, 531 

 Pasteur's treatment, 533 

 preventive inoculation against, 533 

 Radium, influence on bacteria, 103 

 Rauschbrand, 389. See Symptomatic 



anthrax. 



Ray fungus, 418. See Actinomyces. 

 Reaction of media, correction of, 52 

 Receptors, 164 

 Reduction processes, effect by bacteria, 



97 



Reed, yellow fever, 442 

 Relation between agglutinating and bac- 

 tericidal power, 181 

 Relapsing fever, spirillum of, 490 

 Ross, relation of mosquitoes to malaria, 

 500 



SACCHAROMYCES, 439 

 Busse, 440 

 neoformans, 441 

 subcutaneus tumefaciens, 440 

 Sanarelli, bacillus icteroides, 416 

 Sanfelice, 441 



Saprophytes, facultative, 144 

 Sausage poisoning, 251 

 Scarlet fever, Field's studies on, 528 



protozoan-like bodies in, 441, 



527 



streptococci in, 441 



Schaudinn, spirochsete pallida in syph- 

 ilis, 492 



Srhizomycetes, 23 



Schizosaccharomyces octosporus, 439 

 Srliocnlcin, achorion of, 435 

 Scurvy, 442 



Sections, preparation of, 76 

 Septicaemia, various organisms concerned 



in, 329 



Sera, antitoxic, 162 

 k-irtorioidal, 170 



Serum, alkaline blood, 51 



antimeningitis, 363 



antipneumococcus, 358 



antistreptococcus, 344 



antityphoid, 270 



collection of, for diagnostic purposes, 

 140 



diagnosis, 270. See Gruber-Widal 

 reaction. 



limit of curative power, 159 



Leoffler's blood, 51 



media, 51 



testing of protective power of, 159 

 Sewage, disposal of, 451 

 Shiga, dysentery bacillus, 254 

 Side-chain theory of Ehrlich, 164 

 Silkworm disease, 519 

 Skin, ability of bacteria to penetrate, 149 



disinfection of, Fiirbinger's method, 



132 



Sleeping sickness, 482, 488 

 Smallpox, 441 



protozoan bodies in smallpox and 



allied diseases, 521 

 Smears, staining of, 69 

 Smegma bacillus, 316 



differential diagnosis, 316 

 morphology, 316 

 relation to syphilis, 316 

 staining characteristics, 316 

 Soil, bacteria in, 448 

 Soor, fungus of, 437 

 Spallanzani, 19 



Species, influence of one upon growth of 

 another, 42, 103 



permanence of, 38 

 Specific agglutinins, 178 

 Specificity of agglutinins, 176 

 Spirilla, general characteristics of, 28 



allied to cholera, 404 

 Spirillum of Asiatic cholera, 393. See 

 Cholera. 



of Finkler and Prior, 405 



of Metchnikoff, 406 



of Obermeier, 490 



of relapsing fever, 490 

 Spirochsete of Obermeier, 490 



pallida, 492 



of Schaudinn, 492 

 Sporagenous granules, 42 

 Spores, 32 



effect of heat on, 44 



germination of, 34 



resistance to heat, 44 



staining of, 75 

 Sporozoa, 472 



Spotted fever, 517. See also Meningitis. 

 Sputum, disinfection of, 120 



methods of examination for tubercle 



bacilli in, 310 

 Staining bacteria, 70 



principles underlying, 70 

 Stains, Gabbett, 312 



Giemsa, 493 



Goldhorn, 511 



(Irani, 74 



