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INDEX 



Aggultinins, absorption methods for dif- 

 ferentiating between a mixed and 

 single infection, 285 

 action of, based on collodial reactions, 



550 



definition, 279 

 experimental work, 891, 916 

 formation, 281 

 group, 285 

 history, 279 ' 

 immune, 281 

 in immunity, role of, 289 

 nature, 283 

 normal, 281 

 origin, 282 

 partial, 285 



preservation of, in dried paper form, 80 

 production of, 68 



intraperitoneal method, 69 

 intravenous method, 68 

 properties, 283 

 specificity, 285 

 Agglutinogen, 282 



experimental work, 919 

 Agglutinoids, 281 

 Agglutinoscope, 305 

 Aggressins, 109, 124, 184 

 anti-, 127 

 artificial, 104, 126 

 in relation to infection, 104 

 natural, 126 



experimental work, 900 

 nature of, 126 

 Albuminolysin, 588 



Alcoholic extracts of normal organs 

 for Wassermann reaction, 

 444 

 re-enforced with cholesterin for 



Wassermann reaction, 445 

 of syphilitic livers for Wassermann 



reaction, 444 



Aleppo boil, salvarsan in, 881 

 Aleuronat, preparation of, 361 

 Alexin. See Complement. 

 Alkalis and acids, hemolytic influence, 



experimental work, 924 

 Allergen, 572, 579 

 Allergic skin reactions, 620. See also 



Anaphylactic reaction. 

 Allergin, 588 

 Allergy, 570, 572 

 Amboceptoids, 343 

 Amboceptor, 156, 159, 187, 338, 341, 348, 



359, 360 



and complement, quantitative rela- 

 tionship, 396 

 anti-, 347 

 bacteriolytic, 157, 341 



titration of, 347 

 formation, 344 

 hemolytic, 341, 384 



and complement, quantitative re- 

 lationship, 396 



for Noguchi's modification of Was- 

 sermann reaction, 476 



Amboceptor, hemolytic, for Wassermann 



reaction, 439 

 preservation of, 80 

 titration of, 347 



experimental work, 925 

 history, 341 

 "mechanism of action, 343 



experimental work, 927 

 native, 346 

 natural, 346 

 properties, 343 



experimental work, 927 

 quantitative estimation, 347 

 role of, in hemolysis, experimental 



work, 926 

 specificity, 345 



experimental work, 926 

 structure, 342 

 unit of serum, 396 

 Amebadiastase, 185 

 Amorphous colloids, 544 

 Amoss and Flexner method for rapid 

 production of antidysenteric serum, 

 247 



and Wollstein's method for rapid 

 production of antimeningococcus 

 serum, 792 



Ampules, vaccine, conversion of test- 

 tubes into, 24 

 making of, 24 



Anaphylactic antibody, 588 

 reactions, 620 



as indices of immunity, 622 



of infection and hypersusceptibil- 



ity, 621 



effects of drugs upon, 644 

 etiology, 620 

 experimental work, 943 

 in diphtheria, 652 

 in gonococcus infection, 652 

 in leprosy, 653 

 in pregnancy, 653 



in serum and food hypersensitive- 

 ness, 652 



in sporotrichosis, 653 

 in typhoid fever, 649 

 prognostic value, 653 

 Anaphylactin, 588, 592, 601 

 nature, 588 

 terminology, 588 

 Anaphylactogens, 572, 578, 579 

 bacterial, 583 

 endotoxins as, 584 

 non-protein, 579 

 physical state, 582 

 protein, chemistry, 580 

 Anaphylactotoxins, 578 

 Anaphylatoxin, 572, 584 



theory of anaphylaxis, 584 

 Anaphylaxis, 567 



accelerated, in infectious diseases, 605 

 anaphylatoxin theory of, 584 

 antibody, 588, 601 

 Arthus phenomenon, 569 

 Besredka's theory, 591 



