INDEX 



249 



Sterilization, hot-air, 51 

 incomplete, 52 

 of sputum, 60, 154, 157 

 of utensils, 60 

 of water-closets, 61 

 Strain, 240 

 Streptococci, 27, 67, 89, 92, 211, 



240 



Streptococcus pyogenes, 92 

 antiserum, 77, 94 

 discovery of, 94 

 diseases due to, 92 

 general description of, 93 

 rheumaticus, 233 

 Strep tothrix actinomyces, 174. 



See Actinomycosis 

 general description of, 175 

 pathogenic powers of, 174 

 poisons, 174 

 relation to actinomycosis, 



174 

 resistance of, to heat and 



chemicals, 176 

 Sulphur dioxide, 57 

 Sunlight, 62 

 Syphilis, 159 to 163 

 antibodies in, 161 

 diagnosis of, 161 

 forms of, 160 

 skin reaction in, 163 

 transmission of, 160 

 Wassermann blood reaction 



in, 161 

 Syringes, disinfection of, 50 



TECHNIC, 39 



Temperature optimum, 45 

 Tetanus, 77, 113 

 antitoxin, 116 



administration of, 117 

 unit of, 117 

 bacillus, 72, 113 

 antitoxin, 116 

 effect of anaerobic life, 114 

 general description of, 115 

 pathogenic powers of, 114 

 relation of, to tetanus, 114 

 resistance of, to heat and 

 chemicals, 116 



Tetanus bacillus in soil, 204 

 spores of, 115 

 toxins of, 66, 116 

 bacteriological diagnosis of, 



115 



disinfection during attack, 115 

 Thallophyta, 21 

 Thermometer scales, 47 

 Thrush, 200 



Tinea circinata, 199. See Ring- 

 worm 



sycosis, 200. See Ringworm 

 tonsurans, 200. See Ring- 

 worm 



Toxins, bacterial, 66, 72, 73, 240 

 extracellular, 66 

 intracellular, 66 

 Trachoma, 233 

 Transmission of bacteria, 67 



of disease, 67, 68 

 Trays, disinfection of, 50 

 Treponema pallidum, 159 



general description of, 161 

 pathogenic powers of, 159 

 poisons, 159 



relation of, to syphilis, 159 

 resistance of, to heat and 



chemicals, 161 

 transmission of, 160 

 Trichomonas, 220 

 intestinalis, 221 

 pulmonalis, 220 

 vaginalis, 220 

 Trichophyton, 198, 200 

 Tricresol, 55 

 Trypanosoma, 214, 218 



general description of, 219 

 pathogenic powers of, 219 

 Trypanosomiasis, 218 

 transmission of, 214 

 Tsetse fly, 68, 219 

 Tubercle bacillus, 68, 149 

 in air, 202 

 forms of, 153 



general description of, 156 

 in milk, 153, 212 

 pathogenic powers of, 150 

 poisons, 155, 158 

 relation of, to tuberculosis, 



151, 153 



resistance of, to heat and 

 chemicals, 157 



