INDEX OF SUBJECTS 



1177 



Media, formulae in general use, special for 

 colon-typhoid differentiation, 158 

 Barsickow's medium, 164 

 bile medium, 163 

 brilliant green agar (Krumwiede), 



161 

 brilliant green eosin agar (Teague 



and Clurman), 162 

 Conrad i-Drigalski, 158 

 Endo's, 159 



Kendall's modification of, 160 

 Robinson's and Rettger's modifi- 

 cation, 160 



Jackson's lactose bile medium, 163 

 lead acetate agar for Partyphoid A 



and B differentiation, 163 

 lead acetate added to Russell 



double sugar, 165 

 Mackonkey's bile salt, 164 

 malachite green broth (Peabody 



and Pratt), 163 

 Neutral red medium, 164 

 Eussell double sugar, 164 



with lead acetate, 165 

 special, for isolation of cholera spir- 



alla, 166 

 Aronson's, 166 

 Dieudonne, 166 

 Teague and Travis, 167 

 Meningitis, acute primary, 514 



due to meningococcus or pneumococ- 



cus, 514 

 epidemic, 514 

 secondary, 514 

 Meningococcus, 514, 546 

 agglutination, 523 



agglutinin absorption, 522 



diagnostic, 543, 544 



method of producing agglutinating 



serum for laboratory use, 523 

 technique of, 524 

 animal pathogen icity, 526 

 carrier determination, 542 



diagnostic agglutination, 543, 544 j 



media for, 542 



West tube for taking nasopharn- ! 



geal swabs, 542 

 cultivation of, 516 



Meningococcus, cultivation of, influence 



of CO 2 on, 518 

 media for fermentation reactions, 



520 



optimum Ph, 518 

 optimum temperature, 518 

 special media for, 519, 520 

 diagnosis of, 527 



differentiation from other Gram neg- 

 ative cocci, 533 

 epidemiology, 536-546 

 carriers, 539 

 cure of, 545 



determination of, 542-544 

 rate of, 540, 541 

 seasonal prevalence, 537 

 susceptibility of negroes, 537 

 susceptibility, variability of, 539 

 fermentation reactions of, 535 



medium for, 520 

 morphology of, 515 

 resistance of, 520 

 septicaemia due to, 527, 529 

 serum therapy in, 529, 533 

 serum, administration of, 530 

 dosage in, 531 

 intravenous injections, 532 

 effect of, 532, 533 

 standardization by agglutination, 



530 



spinal fluid, method of obtaining, 527 

 spinal fluid, examination of, 528, 529 

 staining of, 515 

 toxic products, 521 

 types of, 522 

 virulence, 546 



Metchnikoff 's bacteriotherapy, 1044 

 Metchnikoff 's work on phagocytosis, 



330, 334 



Methylene-blue, anaerobic indicator, 187 

 Micrococci. See Staphlyococci, 384 

 Micrococcus, genus, 41 

 Micrococcus candicans in the normal 



mouth, 218 



Micrococcus catarrhalis, 553, 559-560 

 differentiation from gonococcus and 



meningococcus, 559 

 fermentation reactions of, 535 



