INDEX 



ABDERHALDEN'S serodiagnosis of preg- 

 nancy, 252 



dialyzation method, 252, 253 

 blood-serum, 258 

 glassware, 253 

 ninhydrin, 254 

 precautions, 254 

 preparation of placental tis- 

 sue, 257 



reading reaction, 259 

 reagents, 254 

 sources of error, 260 

 testing dialyzing shell, 253 

 shell for non-permeability 



to albumin, 255 

 for permeability to pep- 

 tone, 256 



experimental work, 839 

 optical method, 252, 261 

 placental peptone, 261 

 polariscope, 262 

 reading reaction, 262 

 testing peptone, 262 

 practical value, 263 

 principles, 252 



Abortion, contagious, complement-fixa- 

 tion test in, 486 

 Abrin, 222 



toxin, 118 



Absorption agglutination reaction, ex- 

 perimental work, 843 

 in mixed infection, 288 

 by colloids, 515 

 methods for differentiating between 



mixed and single infection, 272 

 Abwehrfermente, 249 

 Acanthosis nigricans, salvarsan in, 811 

 Acetone-insoluble lipoids for Wasser- 



mann reaction, 422 



Acid-fast bacilli, fixing and staining, 197 

 Acne, vaccine therapy, 657 

 Actionocongestin, 533 

 Adenitis, tuberculous, tuberculin treat- 

 ment, 679 



Adulteration, meat, detection of, bio- 

 logic blood test for, 310 

 technic, 312 

 Agglutinating power of serum, variation, 



274 



serums, 68 

 Agglutination, 266 



group, experimental work, 842 

 mechanism of, 270 



Agglutination, mechanism of, Bordet's 



theory, 271 

 Gruber theory, 270 

 Paltauf 's theory, 270 

 test, 278 



absorption, experimental work, 843 



in mixed infection, 288 

 in cerebrospinal meningitis, 277 

 in cholera, 277 

 in diagnosis of disease, 275 

 in dysentery, 276 

 in glanders, 277 

 in identification of microorganism, 



277 



in Malta fever, 277 

 in measuring immunizing response, 



278 



in plague, 277 

 in pneumonia, 277 

 in single or mixed infection, 278 

 in tuberculosis, 277 

 in typhoid fever, 275, 279, 282 

 macroscopic, 279 



experimental work, 841, 842 

 Kolle and Pfeiffer's method, 288 

 technic, 284 

 microscopic, 279 



dry method, technic, 283 

 experimental work, 840 

 wet method, technic, 282 

 practical applications, 275 

 precautions, 281 

 requisites for, 279 

 Agglutinins, 152, 266 



absorption methods for differentiating 

 between a mixed and single infec- 

 tion, 272 

 action of, based on colloidal reactions, 



517 



definition, 266 

 experimental work, 815, 840 

 formation, 268 

 group,. 271 

 history, 266 

 immune, 268 

 in immunity, role of, 274 

 nature, 270 

 normal, 268 

 origin, 269 

 partial, 271 



preservation of, in dried paper form, 79 

 production of, 68 



intraperitoneal method, 69 



