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INDEX 



Serum, 210 



sickness, 71 



treatment, 70 



Sewage disposal, septic tank pro- 

 cess of, 35 

 Sexual, 210 

 Silver nitrate, 50 

 Skin sterilization, 53, 55, 76 

 Sleeping sickness, 63, 192. See 



Trypanosomiasis. 

 Smallpox, 69, 199 

 Smegma bacillus, 149 

 Soap as disinfectant, 53 

 Sodium carbonate, 51 



hydroxide, 51 

 Soil, 179 



actinomycosis from, 179 



anthrax bacillus in, 179 



bacteria in, 179 



cholera bacillus in, 179 



tetanus bacillus in, 179 



tubercle bacillus in, 180 



typhoid bacillus in, 179 

 Soor, 176. See Thrush. 

 Sore-throat, septic, 86 

 Species, 210 

 Spirilla, 21, 24 

 Spirillum cholera? asiaticse, 123. See 



Cholera spirillum. 

 Spirocheta, 210 



Obermeieri, 146 



pallida, 142. See Treponema 



pallidum. 



Spontaneous generation, 19 

 Spores, 27, 46, 47, 51, 52 

 Sporozoa, 21, 188, 194 

 Sputum, collection of, 73 



sterilization of, 56, 138, 140 



tuberculous, collection and steril- 

 ization of, 56, 138 

 Staining, 37, 42 

 Staphylococci, 26, 82, 210 

 Staphylococcus epidermidis albus, 

 77, 83 



pyogenes albus, 83 

 aureus, 82, 83 

 discovery of, 87 

 diseases produced by, 84 

 general description of, 82, 83 

 resistance of, to heat and 



chemicals, 83 

 Steam sterilization, 43, 45, 46, 47 



sterilizer, 45, 46, 47 

 Sterilization, 43 to 47, 49 to 54, 210 



Sterilization of dejecta, 56 

 of fabrics, 55 

 of glassware, 43 

 of gauze, 58 

 hot-air, 47 

 incomplete, 49 

 of sputum, 56, 138, 140 

 of utensils, 56 

 of water-closets, 57 

 Strain, 210 

 Streptococci, 26, 62, 82, 85, 185, 



210 



Streptococcus pyogenes, 85 

 antiserum, 70, 87 

 discovery of, 87 

 diseases due to, 85 

 general description of, 86 

 rheumaticus, 204 

 Streptothrix actinomyces, 155. See 



Actinomycosis. 

 general description of, 156 

 pathogenic powers of, 155 

 poisons, 156 



relation to actinomycosis, 155 

 resistance of, to heat and 



chemicals, 156 

 Sulphur dioxide, 53 

 Sunlight, 58 

 Syphilis, 142 to 146 

 antibodies in, 143 

 diagnosis of, 143 

 forms of, 143 

 skin reaction in, 145 

 transmission of, 143 

 Wassermann blood reaction in, 



143 

 Syringes, disinfection of, 46 



TECHNIC, 37 



Temperature optimum, 43 

 Tetanus, 70, 104 

 antitoxin, 107 



administration of, 107 

 unit of, 107 

 bacillus, 66, 104 

 antitoxin, 107 

 effect of anaerobic life, 105 

 general description of, 105 

 pathogenic powers of, 105 

 relation of, to tetanus, 104 

 resistance of, to heat and 

 chemicals, 106 



