INDEX 



577 



Lustig's antiplague se- 

 rum. 482 

 Lysins, production of, 130 



Macrocytase, 109, 301 



Magendie on anaphylaxis, 

 359 



Malta fever, relative sus- 

 ceptibility of man 

 and animals to, 53 



Manwaring's work on ana- 

 phylaxis, 370 



Markl's serum in treat- 

 ment of plague, 

 481 



Marmorek's work on serum 

 therapy of strep- 

 tococcus infec- 

 tions, 474, 475 



Measles, relative suscepti- 

 bility of man and 

 animals to, 54 



Meat poisoning, 4, 31 



Meiostagmin reaction, 538 

 Ascoli and Izar's experi- 

 ments in, 538, 539 

 value of, in diagnosis, 

 538 



Meningitis, epidemic cere- 

 brospinal, serum 

 therapy of, 471. 

 See also under 

 C e r e b rospinal 

 meningitis, epi- 

 demic 



Metabolism, processes of, 

 compared with 

 those of antibody 

 formation, 125 



Metchnikoff and Besredka's 

 living 'sensitized 

 vaccines for pro- 

 phylactic typhoid 

 immunization, 486 



Metchnikoff on bacterial 

 growth in cell- 

 free blood serum, 

 81 



theory of, on bacterial 

 destruction by 

 phagocytic cells 

 in natural immu- 

 nity, 78 



Metchnikoff's soured milk 

 therapy, 31 



Microcytase, 169, 301 



Minimum lethal dose, defi- 

 nition of, 108, 109 

 method of determination 

 of, 109 



M L D, definition of, 108, 



109 



method of determination 

 of, 109 



Morgenroth's toxin-HCl 

 modification in 

 t o x i n-antltoxin 

 reaction, 100 



Mucous membranes, de- 

 fence of, in infec- 

 tion, 12, 13 



Mushroom, specific anti- 

 toxin from, 97 



Narcotics, reduction of 

 phagocytosis by, 



Natural immunity. See 

 Immunity, nat- 

 ural 



Necroparasites, 11 

 "Negative" phase in active 

 immunization, 3o^ 

 second injection in, 



338 

 successive inoculations 



in, 338, 339 

 "summation" of, 338, 



339 



Neisser and Friedeinann, 

 experiments of, 

 on influence of 

 salts on sensitized 

 bacteria in agglu- 

 tination, 244 



Neisror and VVechsberg, 

 phenomenon of, 

 160 et sgq. 



analogous to colloid re- 

 actions, 162 



argument in favor of 

 Bordet's views, 

 162 

 Gay's explanation of, 



103 



Morgenroth and Sachs's 

 experiments sup- 

 porting, 103 



pro-agglutinoid zone re- 

 action analogous 

 to, 162 



Neisser's studies in syph- 

 ilis, 506, 509 



Neoplasms, malignant. 



alexin fixation in 



diagnosis of, 21 :! 



von Dungern's method 



of, 214 

 antigen production 



for, 214 

 results of, 215 

 technique of, 214 et 



seq. 



Nernst on views of Arrhen- 

 ius and Madsen 

 on neutralization 

 in toxin-antitoxin 

 reaction, 122 



Neufeld and Dold's experi- 

 m e n t s in bac- 

 terial anaphylax- 

 is, 419 



Neufeld and Haendel's 

 work on serum 

 therapy of pneu- 

 monia, 476 

 Neurotoxin, 92 



in snake venom, 467 

 Nicolle's theory of ana- 

 phylaxis, 391 

 work on passive anaphy- 

 laxis. 380 



Noguchi's modification of 

 the Wassermann 

 test, 208, 209 

 schematic presentation 



of, 209 



"Normal" diphtheria anti- 

 toxic serum, 107 

 "Normal" diphtheria tox- 

 in, 107 



"Normal" serum. See un- 

 der Serum 

 agglutinins in, 91 

 hemolytic properties of, 



91 



opsonins in, 91 

 toxic action of, and an- 

 aphylaxis, 406 

 Nuttall on bactericidal 

 power of normal 

 blood in natural 

 immunity, 79 



Nuttall's experiments on 

 determining zoo- 

 logical classifica- 

 tions by means of 

 precipitin reac- 

 tion, 254, 255 



Ophthalmia, sympathetic, 

 Elschnig's expla- 

 nation of, as ana- 

 phylactic r e a c- 

 tion, 439 



Opium, reduction of pha- 

 gocytosis by, 299 

 Opsonic action, phagocy- 

 tosis due to, 313 

 Opsonic index, determina- 

 tion of, Leisn- 

 mann's technique 

 for, 329 



Simon, Lamar and 

 Bispham's tech- 

 nique of, 332, 35., 

 Wright's technique 



for, 330 et seq. 

 difficulties in, 332, 



333 



value of, 333 

 fluctuation of, in un- 

 treated patients 

 under influence of 

 exercise of dis- 

 eased parts, 340 

 in autoinoculations by 



massage, 340 

 in sera of normal and 

 infected individ- 

 ual, comparison 

 of, 334 



in serum therapy, com- 

 parison between 

 that in exudate of 

 infected foci and 

 blood serum, 340 

 in staphylococcus infec- 

 tions, 334 



during vaccine treat- 

 ment with dead 

 s t a p hylococcus 

 cultures, 335 

 in treatment of gonor- 

 r h e a 1 arthritis 

 with autoinocula- 

 tion by massage, 

 340 



in vaccine therapy, im- 

 provement and, 

 341 



of acne, 339 

 of staphylococcus fu- 



runculosis, 335 

 of sycosis, 336, 337 

 of tuberculosis, 341- 



343 



value of, in control- 

 ling therapeutic 

 vaccinations. 344 

 in showing degree 

 and conditions in 

 which vaccination 

 is successful, 344, 

 345 

 vaccine therapy and, 328 



et seq. 

 value of. in therapeusis, 



338 

 Opsonic powers of normal 



serum, 314 

 reduction of, by heat, 



314 



Opsonins, 311. See also 

 Phagocytosis 



