INDEX 



731 



Plague, immunity against, 499 



infection in, 495 



involution forms, 490 



part played by rat fleas in the 

 spread of, 496 



preventive inoculation against, 

 499 



serum diagnosis, 500 



stalactite growths of, 491 



varieties of, 494 

 Plasmolysis, 10 

 Plate cultures, agar, 61 



gelatin, 57 

 Platinum needles, 55 

 Pneumobacillus(Friedl;inder's),235, 



239 et seq. 



Pneumococcus (Fraenkel's), 234, 

 237 et seq. 



action of soaps on, 249 



capsulation of, 238 



culture methods, 43 



fermentation reactions of, 238 



immunity against, 247 



in endocarditis, 223 



lesions caused by, 240 



relation to streptococci, 239 



toxins of, 246 

 Pneumonia, bacteria in, 233 



gangrenous, 483 



in influenza, 482 



methods of examination of, 250 



septic, 233 



vaccine treatment of, 248 



varieties of, 232 

 Polar granules, 9 

 Poliomyelitis, 682 

 Polysaccharides, 81 

 Positive phase in immunisation, 



303 



Potassium permanganate as anti- 

 septic, 179 



Potatoes as culture material, 46 

 Poynton and Payne on acute rheu- 

 matism, 228 

 Precipitinogen, 582 

 Precipitins, 581 



bacterial, 581 



serum, 582 

 Precipitoid, 583 

 Preparations, impression, 140 

 Protective inoculation, 555 et seq. 

 Proteosoma, 633 



Protozoa described in hydrophobia, 

 616 



Protozoa described in smallpox, 608 

 Protozoon malarias, 624 

 Prowazek on smallpox, 609 

 Pseudo-diphtheria bacillus, 422 



-tuberculosis strepthothrices, 337 

 Psittacosis bacillus, 396 

 Ptomaine poisoning, 391 

 Ptomaines, 193 

 Puerperal septicaemia, 219 

 Pus, examination of, 95, 230 

 Pustule, malignant, 352 

 Pyaemia, 219 et seq. 



nature of, 207 



Pyogenic cocci, culture of, 134 

 Pyrogallate of potassium for anae- 

 robic cultures, 63 

 Pyrogallol saturated tubes, 68 



Quartan fever, 634 

 Quarter-evil, bacillus of, 454 

 Quotidian fever, 633 



Rabies, 611 



Rabinowitch's acid-fast bacillus, 



291 



Rat viruses, 397 

 Rauschbrand bacillus, 454 

 Ray-fungus (actinomyces), 327 

 Reaction of media, standardising of, 



33 



Receptors, 586 

 Recovery from disease, 550 

 Red stains, 102 

 Red- water fever in cattle, 676 

 Reichert's gas-regulator, 88 

 Relapsing fever, agglutination of 

 spirillum, 511 



bactericidal serum in, 511 



spirillum of, etc., 508 



transmission of, 512 



varieties of, 512 



Reversibility of toxin-antitoxin re- 

 action, 565 



Rheumatism, acute, 228 

 Rhinoscleroma, bacillus of, 325 

 Rhodesia, trypanosomiasis in, 665 

 Richet on anaphylaxis, 596 

 Ricin, 202 



immunity against, 557, 562 

 Rivers, bacteria in, 161 

 Rixford and Gilchrist on blastomy- 



cosis, 546 

 Robin, 202 

 Rock fever, 502 



