INDEX. 



Abrin, 202 



immunity against, 557, 562 

 Abscesses (see also Suppuration) : 



bacteria in, 208 



in dysentery, 646 

 Absolute alcohol, fixing by, 97 

 Absorption of complement test, 122 

 Achoria, 536 

 Achorion schonleinii, 537 

 Acid-fast bacilli, 275, 290 



stain for, 108 

 Acid formation, observation of, 



51, 84 



Acne bacillus, 227 

 Acquired immunity in man, 565 



theories of, 585 

 Actinomyces, 17 



characters of, 327, 328 



cultivation of, 333 



inoculation with, 337 



varieties of, 336 

 Actinomycosis, 327 



anaerobic streptothrices in, 336 



diagnosis of, 337 



lesions in, 331 



origin of, 333 



Active immunity, 551, 552 

 Aerobes, 19 



culture of, 58 



separation of, 57 

 JEstivo -autumnal fevers, 633 

 African tick fever, 507 

 Agar media (see also Culture media), 

 37 



separation by, 61 

 Agglutinable substance, 580 

 Agglutination by sera, 578 



in relapsing fever, 511 



[ Agglutination methods, 119 



of b. mallei, 323 



of b. typhosus, etc., 382 



of cholera vibrio, 471 



of m. melitensis, 506 



of plague bacillus, 500 



of red blood corpuscles, 574, 579 



theories regarding, 579 

 Agglutinins, absorption of, 386 



measurement of group, 121 



primary (homologous), 386 



secondary (heterologous), 386 

 Agglutinogen, 579 

 Agglutinoids, 580 

 Aggressins, 195 

 Air, bacteria in, 149 



examination of, for bacteria, 149 

 Albumoses, 199 



in diphtheria, 421 

 Alcohols, higher, fermentation of, 



81 



Aleppo boil, 673 

 Alexins, 571, 594 

 Amanita phalloides, toxin of, 202 

 Amboceptors, 571, 586 

 Amoebic dysentery, 641 

 Amoebulse of malaria, 626 

 Anaerobes, 19 



cultures of, 68 



fusiform, 457 



separation of, 63 



toxins of, 68 



Anaerobic bacteria in soil, 155 

 Anaerobic Buchner tubes, 67 

 Anaerobic Esmarch's tubes, 63 

 Anaerobic fermentation tubes, 67 

 Anaerobic plate cultures, Bulloch's 

 apparatus for, 64 



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