INDEX 



189 



Dichloramine-T in dressing in- 

 fected wounds, 41 

 Diphtheria antitoxin, 99 



bacillus, 95 



bacteriology of, 95 



quarantine in, 61 



Schick test, 100 



serum treatment, 78 



throat smears in, 97, 171 



toxin, 98 

 Diplococci, definition of, 16 

 Diplococcus of gonorrhea, 117 



of meningitis, 114 



of pneumonia, 104 

 Disease, relation of bacteria to, 

 48 



transmission of infectious, 55 

 Disinfectants, effect of, on bac- 

 teria, 36 



testing of, 42 

 Disinfection in contagious dis- 

 eases, 164 



of drinking-water, halazone for, 

 42, 150 



practice of, 134 

 Disinfestation, 169 

 Drinking-water, halazone in dis- 

 infection of, 42, 150 

 Dry heat for destroying lice, 169 



for sterilization, 43 

 Drying, effect of, on bacteria, 36 

 Dysentery, amebic, 86 



bacillus of, 86 



bacteriology of, 86 



Empyema, 53 



Epidemic cerebrospinal meningi- 

 tis, 114 

 quarantine in, 62 

 scrum and vaccines in, 78 

 Estivo-autiunnal malaria, para- 

 site of, 129 



Exanthemata, bacteriology of, 

 122 



Famulener on transmission of 



immunity, 65 

 Favus, 185 



Feces, collection of, 172 

 Fermentation tube, 34 

 Fermented milk, bacteriology of, 



140 

 Fermilac, bacteriology of, 142 

 Filaria, 153 

 Filterable viruses, 126 

 Filters, bacterial, 126 



domestic, 148 

 Fire for sterilization, 43 

 Fishing for pure cultures, 34 

 Fixing of microscopic smears, 25 

 Flagella in motile bacteria, 17 

 Flies as carriers of infection, 58, 

 139 



in relation to poliomyelitis, 185 

 to typhoid fever, 82 

 Fomites as carriers of disease, 55 

 Food poisoning, bacterial, 143 

 Foot-and-mouth disease, virus of, 



127 

 Formaldehyd, effect of, on bac- 

 teria, 40 



for fumigation, 167 

 Fracastor's conception of nature 



of infectious diseases, 11 

 Freeman's pasteurizer for milk, 



136 

 Friedlander's bacillus of pneu- 

 monia, 175 

 Fumigation after infectious dis- 

 eases, 57 



terminal, 57 



to kill vermin, 168 



with sulphur, 40 

 Fungi, definition of, 13 



