INDEX 



875 



Blood, collecting of, for Wassermann re- 

 action, 408 

 New York Board of Health 



outfit, 410 

 films for phagocytic counts, 199 



method of preparing, 198 

 human and animal, differentiation, 



precipitin test for, 303 

 obtaining large amounts, 33 

 phlebotomy, 33 

 wet cupping, 36 

 small amounts, 32 



from infants and children, 



33 



Keidel tube for collecting, 35, 36 

 methods of obtaining, 28 

 placental, method of obtaining, 37 

 plasma, obtaining, 30 

 precipitin test for, 303 



technic, 308 



Blood-corpuscles and blood-serum, ob- 

 taining, 30 

 obtaining, 28 

 red. See Erythrocytes. 

 test, biologic, for detection of blood- 

 stains, 303 

 technic, 308 

 of meat adulteration, 310 



technic, 312 

 Teichmann's, 303 

 transfusion, 273 



experimental work, 844 



tests before, for isohemagglutinins 



and isohemolysins, 290 

 Blood-pressure as guide in administering 



serum subdurally, 695 

 fall in, in anaphylaxis, 541, 542 

 Blood-serum. See Serum. 

 Blood-stains, biologic test for, 303 



technic, 308 



experimental work, 845, 861 

 identification of, complement-fixation 



test for, 494 

 Body-fluids, relation of, to phagocytosis, 



184 



Boil, Aleppo, salvarsan in, 811 

 Bones, tuberculosis of, tuberculin test in 



diagnosis of, 590 

 treatment, 679 



Bordet-Gengou phenomenon of com- 

 plement fixation, 332, 391 

 as colloidal reaction, 519 

 determination of antigen by, 



494 



experimental work, 855 

 for identification of bacterial 



antigens, 498 

 of blood-stains, 494 

 of meats, 498 

 in bacterial diseases, 473 

 in cancer, 499 

 in contagious abortion, 486 

 in dourine, 487 

 in echinococcus disease, 492 

 in glanders, 484 



Bordet-Gengou phenomenon of comple- 

 ment fixation in gonococcus 

 infections, 477. See also Gono- 

 coccus complement-fixation test. 

 in horse syphilis, 487 

 in standardization of immune 



serums, 491 

 in tuberculosis, 490 

 in typhoid fever, 489 

 mechanism, 395 

 non-specific, 396 

 original, 394 



practical application, 399 

 preparation of bacterial anti- 

 gens, 473 

 principles, 391 



with bacterial antigens, 476 

 protein differentiation by, 494 

 quantitative factors in, 397 

 standardizing bacterial anti- 

 gens, 475 

 technic, 401, 473 



Bordet's theory of mechanism of agglu- 

 tination, 271 

 Botulinus antitoxin, 236 

 Botulism toxin, 116 



experimental work, 820 

 Bouillon filtrate, preparation of, 666 

 Brain, syphilis of, salvarsanized auto- 

 serum in, 776 

 after-treatment, 780 

 repeating dose, 780 

 serobiologic findings in cere- 



brospinal fluid, 780 

 technic, 778 

 Brezovsky and Detre's modification of 



Wassermann reaction, 459 

 Bronchitis, vaccine therapy, 659 

 Bronchopneumonia, antistreptococcus 



serum in, 764 

 Browning and Mackenzie's modification 



of Wassermann reaction, 459 

 test for estimating amount of com- 

 plement absorbed in Wassermann 

 reaction, 434 

 Bubonic plague, serum treatment, 769 



vaccination, 647 

 Buckwheat idiosyncrasy, 578 

 Butyric-acid test, Noguchi's, for pro- 

 tein, 300 



CADAVER serums, testing, in Wasser- 

 mann reaction, 41 1 



Calf cholera serum, 733 



Calmette's antivenene, 734 



conjunctival tuberculin test, 587, 598 



dangers, 592 

 in animals, 600 



Cancer, autoserum treatment, 782 

 chemotherapy in, 812 

 complement-fixation test in, 499 

 contraindications to vaccines in, 623 

 eosin-selenium compound in, 812 

 epiphanin reaction in, 526 



