INDEX 



ABDERHALDEN'S reaction, Bronfenbren- 



ner's modification, 273 

 mechanism, 260 

 serodiagnosis of pregnancy, 265 

 dialyzation method, 265, 266 

 blood-serum, 271 

 glassware, 266 

 ninhydrin, 267 

 precautions, 266 

 preparation of placental tis- 

 sue, 270 



reading reaction, 273 

 reagents, 267' 

 sources of error, 274 

 testing dialyzing shell, 266 

 shell for non-permeability 



to albumin 268 

 for permeability to pep- 

 tone, 269 



experimental work, 915 

 optical method, 265, 274 

 placental peptone, 274 

 polariscope, 276 

 reading reaction, 276 

 testing peptone, 275 

 practical value, 276 

 Abortin reaction, 648 

 Abortion, contagious, complement-fixa- 

 tion test in, 513 

 Abrin, 226 



toxin, 120 



Abscesses, vaccine therapy, 704 

 Absorption agglutination reaction, ex- 

 perimental work, 919 

 in mixed infection, 309 

 by colloids, 547 

 methods for differentiating between 



mixed and single infection, 285 

 Abwehrfermente, 259 

 Acanthosis nigricans, salvarsan in, 881 

 Acetone-insoluble lipoids for Wasser- 



mann reaction, 446 

 Acid agglutination, 283 



test, technic, 310 

 Acid-fast bacilli, fixing and staining, 



200 

 Acids and alkalis, hemolytic influence of, 



experimental works, 924 

 Acne, vaccine therapy, 704 

 Actinocongestin, 569 

 Adenitis, tuberculous, tuberculin treat- 

 ment, 731 



Adulteration, meat, detection of, bio- 

 logic blood test for, 333 

 technic, 335 

 Agglutinating power of serum, variation, 



288 



serums, 68 

 Agglutination, 279 

 acid, 283 



group, experimental work, 918 

 mechanism of, 284 

 Bordet's theory, 284 

 Gruber theory, 284 

 Paltauf s theory, 284 

 of treponema pallidum, 292 

 test, 294 



acid, technic, 310 



absorption, experimental work, 919 



in mixed infection, 309 

 in cerebrospinal meningitis, 292 

 in cholera, 292 

 in diagnosis of disease, 290 

 in differentiation of pneumococci, 



308 



in dysentery, 292 

 in glanders, 293 

 in identification of micro-organism, 



293 



in Malta fever, 292 

 in measuring immunizing response, 



294 



in pertussis, 293 

 in plague, 292 

 in pneumonia, 292 

 in single or mixed infection, 294 

 in treponema pallidum, 292 

 in tuberculosis, 292 

 in typhoid fever, 290, 295, 299 

 in whooping cough, 293 

 macroscopic, 295 



experimental work, 917, 918 

 Kolle and Pfeiffer's method, 305 

 Oxford University method, 305 

 technic, 301 

 microscopic, 295 



dry method, technic, 300 

 experimental work, 916 

 wet method, technic, 299 

 practical applications, 290 

 precautions, 298 

 preparation of emulsion, 296 

 requisites for, 295 

 Agglutinins, 154, 279 



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