INDEX. 



Lbrin, 344, 345, 346, 401 

 Abrin intoxication, action of body fluids on, 

 365, 420 ; leucocytic reaction against, 

 393, 401 

 -Absorption. See Kesorption 

 Acari, mechanical action of, 3 

 Acclimatisation. See Adaptation 

 Acid reaction inside phagocytes, 83, 182 

 Acid, secretion of, in osmosis, 37, 566 

 Acidophile microbian flora of stomach, 418 

 Actinians, digestion in, 53, 82, 85 

 Actinodiastase, 57, 197 

 Actinophrys, 14, 18 

 Adaptation. See also Immunity 

 Adaptation to toxic substances, 21-27, 30, 

 342, 390; to saline solutions, 23, 30, 

 515 ; to physical conditions, 26, 30-31 ; 

 of Plasmodia to arsenious acid, 31 ; of 

 pancreatic secretion to kind of food, 64, 

 65 ; of phagocytes to destroy micro- 

 organisms, 281, 558, 566 ; of animals to 

 spinal concussion, etc., 564; of cells, 513 

 Addiment (syn. Complement), 95 

 Agglutination in natural immunity, 202, 

 206; and phagocytosis, 202, 242, 245; 

 in the diagnosis of typhoid, 256, 257, 

 261, 439; its mechanism, 257; of red 

 blood corpuscles by serums, 258; of red 

 blood corpuscles by ricin, 360; does not 

 prevent growth of micro-organisms, 262 

 Agglutinative power, transmission by 

 heredity or suckling, 450 ; not developed 

 parallel with bactericidal power, 483 

 Agglutinins in immunity, 242, 245, 256- 

 265, 295, 542, 559; characters of, 255, 

 559; origin of, in immunised animal, 

 263-265, 294; difference between fixa- 

 tives and, 255, 265, 559; not the same 

 as protective substances, 268, 269, 294 

 Albuminoid substances, resorption of, 106- 



127 

 Alexins. See also Cytases 

 Alexins, 87-95, 96, 98, 184, 193, 255, 528, 



533, 535, 539 

 Alimentary canal. See Intestine 

 Alizarin sulpho-acid, 13, 83, 183 

 Alhgator, 77, 143, 332, 401 



B. 



Amboceptors (syn. fixatives), 91, 93, 297, 

 557 



Ammocoetes, 77, 78 



Amoeba, 14, 18, 23, 547, 549 



Amoebodiastase, 16, 197, 549 



Amoeboid cells. See Leucocytes and Pha- 

 gocytes 



Amphibia. See Frog, Axolotl 



Amylase, 95; in the urine, 65 



Androctonus. See Scorpion 



Anopheles and malaria, 129 



Antagonism between certain bacteria, 323 



Anthrax, 11, 20, 21, 25, 41, 46, 180; immu- 

 nity of dog against, 149-151, 242; acquir- 

 ed immunity of Scolopendra against, 209 ; 

 natural immunity of white rat against, 

 526; protective serums against, 20, 276, 

 309-311; phagolysis in acquired immunity 

 against, 280; immunisation against, by 

 means of other bacteria, 323; infection 

 by inhalation, 412; by ingestion, 423; 

 immunity against, transmitted to off- 

 spring, 445, 447; vaccinations against, 

 208, 241, 468-471; method, 470; statis- 

 tics, 471 ; vaccination against, by heated 

 anthrax blood, 507; vaccines against, 

 208, 470, 509: phagocytosis in, 521, 

 523 



Anthrax bacillus, action on rabies, 150; 

 bactericidal action of blood-serums on, 

 20, 146, 150, 151, 156, 157, 240; in- 

 creasing the virulence of, 150; attenua- 

 tion of, 208, 288; eosinophile transfor- 

 mation in, 198; protective thickening of 

 bacterial membrane in, 242 ; agglutination 

 of, 203, 242, 260, 264 ; natural immunity 

 against, 132-140, 143-147, 149-159, 611, 

 512 ; acquired immunity against, 239-242, 

 276,277; antagonism between, and certain 

 bacteria, 323; fate of, in Algerian sheep, 

 512; destruction of, by defibrinated blood, 

 525 



Anthrax, symptomatic: immunity against 

 baciUi of, 171; heredity of hnmonity 

 against, 452; vaccinations against, 471- 

 473; phagocytosis in, 523 



Antiabrin, 401 



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