INDEX 



ABBOTT'S method of cultivation of 



typhoid bacillus, 540 

 Abscess, tuberculous, 368 

 Absorption of atmospheric oxygen 



in anaerobic cultures, 230 

 Acid, tuberculinic, 373 

 Acid-resisting bacteria, 395 

 Acids, production of, 52 

 Actinodiastase, 108 

 Actinomyces, 431 

 bovis, 431 



cultivation, 433 

 distribution, 431 

 lesions, 438 

 morphology, 431 

 pathogenesis, 436 

 virulence, 436 

 farcinica, 445 

 cultivation, 446 

 morphology, 445 

 pathogenesis, 446 

 virulence, 447 

 Madurae, 440 

 cultivation, 441 

 cultural characteristics, 443 

 lesions, 442 

 morphology, 441 

 Actinomycosis, 431 



communication of, to man, 438 

 Acute contagious conjunctivitis, 



646 



Adami and Chapin's method for 

 isolation of typhoid bacillus, 544 

 Addiment, 101, 125 

 Adhesive preparations, 223 

 Aerobes, 40 

 Aerogens, 47 



Agar-agar as culture media, 199 

 blood, as culture media, 201 

 culture, 222 



glycerin, as culture media, 201 

 preparation of, 200 



Ravenel's method, 200 

 Agglutination, 130 



tests, Koch's, for tubercle bacilli, 

 384 



Agglutination tests, technic of, 132 

 Widal reaction of, 558. See 



also Widal reaction. 

 Agglutinins, 130 

 Agglutometers, 559 

 Aggressins, 127 

 Air, bacteria in, 39 



quantitative estimation, 250 

 by Hesse's method, 250 

 by Petri's method, 251 

 by Sedgwick's method, 



252 



bacteriology of, 249 

 displacement of, by inert gases, 



in anaerobic cultures, 227 

 of sick-room, disinfection of, 185 

 withdrawal of, in anaerobic 



cultures, 227 

 Air-examination, Petri's sand filter 



for, 251 

 Sedgwick's expanded tube for, 



251 

 Alcohol, effect of, in infectious 



diseases, 84 



Alexin, 105, 109, 125, 147 

 Algae, 28 

 Alkali-albuminate, Deycke's, as 



culture media, 204 

 Alkalies, production of, 52 

 Alkaline blood-serum as culture 



medium, 204 

 Amboceptor, 125, 126 

 Amebadiastase, 108 

 Amebic dysentery 579 

 Amphitricha, 31 

 Anaerobes, 40 

 facultative, 40 

 optional, 40 

 Anaerobic bacteria, cultivation of, 



227 



by absorption of atmos- 

 pheric oxygen, 230 

 by displacement of air, 227 

 by exclusion of atmospheric 



oxygen, 232 

 by formation of vacuum, 227 



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