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INDEX 



Protozoa requirements, 38 



temperature for, 38 



wall, 31 



Protozoology, 17 

 Pseudodiphtheria bacilli, 113 

 Pseudopods, 32, 239 

 Ptomain poisoning, 69 

 Pus, 85, 88 



bacillus of green, 191 



collection of, 79 

 Putrefaction, 37, 239 

 Pyemia, 88 

 Pyocyanase, 192 

 Pyocyaneus bacillus, 89, 191 

 Pyogenes, 239 



R 



RABIES, 229. See Hydrophobia 



Rain, bacteria in, 204 



Ray fungus, 174. See Strepto- 

 thrix actinomyces 



Relapsing fever, 163 



Reproduction, 27, 32 



Rheumatism, acute articular, 



233 



streptococcus rheumati- 

 cus in, 233 



Rhizopoda, 214 



Ringworm, 199 



Room disinfection, 53, 61 



Rubber gloves, disinfection of, 

 50 



Russell, Major, U. S. A., anti- 

 typhoid vaccination, 126 



S 



SAPROPHYTES, 21, 240 



in intestine, 37 

 Sarcinse, 27 



Sarcodina, 22, 214, 215 

 Scarlet fever, 69, 232 



from milk, 211 

 Schizomycetes, 22 

 Septicemia, 65, 88 

 Serum, 240 



sickness, 78 



treatment, 77 

 Sexual, 240 



Silver nitrate, 54 



Skin sterilization, 56, 59, 83 



Sleeping sickness, 68, 218. See 



Trypanosomiasis 

 Smallpox, 75, 228 

 Smegma bacillus, 168 

 Soap as disinfectant, 56 

 Sodium carbonate, 54 



hydroxide, 54 

 Soil', 203 



actinomycosis from, 203 



anthrax bacillus in, 203 



bacteria in, 203 



cholera bacillus in, 203 



tetanus bacillus in, 204 



tubercle bacillus in, 204 



typhoid bacillus in, 203 

 Soor, 200. See Thrush 

 Species, 240 

 Spirilla, 22, 26 

 Spirillum cholera; asiaticge, 136. 



See Cholera spirillum 

 Spirocheta, 240 



Obermeieri, 164 



pallida, 159. See Treponema 



pallidum 



Spontaneous generation, 19 

 Spores, 28, 50, 51, 55, 56 

 Sporozoa, 22, 214, 221 

 Sputum, collection of, 80 



sterilization of, 60, 154, 157 



tuberculous, collection and 



sterilization of, 60, 154 

 Staining, 40, 44 

 Staphylococci, 27, 89, 240 

 Staphylococcus epidermidis 

 albus, 83, 90 



pyogenes albus, 90 

 aureus, 89 



discovery of, 94 

 diseases produced by, 91 

 general description of, 89 

 resistance of, to heat and 



chemicals, 90 

 Steam sterilization, 46, 47, 50 



sterilizer, 48, 50 

 Stegomyia calopus, 231 

 Sterilization, 46 to 51, 52 to 58, 

 240 



of dejecta, 60 



of fabrics, 59 



of glassware, 46 



