INDEX, 



Abbe condenser, 20 

 Abrin, 164, 177 

 Abscesses, 233, 243 



metastatic, 241, 243 

 Absorbent cotton, 70, 80, 218 

 Accidental infection of laboratory 



workers, 104 

 Acetic acid, 29, 40, 119 

 Acid, acetic, 29, 40, 119 



alcohol, 30, 34 . 



aniline dyes, 28 



boric, 206 



butyric, 119, 223 



carbolic, 118, 197, 200, 219 



formic, 119 



fuchsin, 28 



hydrochloric, 143, 199 



lactic, 119, 134, 225 



oxalic, 211 



picric, 28 



propionic, 119 



pyrogallic in cultivating anae- 

 robes, 79 



rosolic, 67 

 Acid-proof bacilli, 32, 35, 138, r43, 



287, 294, 300 

 Acids, formation by bacteria, 119 

 Acquired immunity, 170 

 Actinomyces, 228, 286, 294, 298 

 Actinomycosis, 235, 298 

 Active immunity, 177 

 Acute miliary tuberculosis, 292 

 Aerobic bacteria, definition, 116 

 Aerobioscope, 125 

 Agar-agar, 64 



Age, relation to infections, 155 

 Agglutinating substances in blood- 

 serum, 191, 306 

 Agglutinins, 165, 185, 191, 306 

 Aggressins, 181 

 Air, bacteria of, 124, 152 



bacteria conveyed by, 152 

 Albumen, culture-media containing, 

 69 



Albumen, fixative, 38 



precipitins for, 167 

 Alcohol, acid, 30, 34 



fixation of tissues by, 36 



relation to infection, 155, i9r 

 Alexins, 191 



Alimentary canal, bacteria of, 143 

 Alum filter, 127 

 Amboceptor, 186 

 American filtration system, 127 



Public Health Association, di- 

 rections for preparing media, 60 

 Amoeba coli, 329 



of dysentery, 329 

 Anaerobic bacteria, cultivation, 79 



definition, 116 

 Aniline dyes, 28 



alcoholic solutions, 28 

 as germicides, 200 

 viratery solutions, 28 



oil, 30, 41 



-water solutions, 29, 35 

 Animals, autopsies on, 94 



care of, 92, 93 



inoculation of, 84, 92 

 Anopheles, 154, 333 

 Anthrax bacillus (see also Bacillus 

 of anthrax), 272 



protective inoculation, 172, 274 



symptomatic, 172 



virus for, 172 

 Antiagglutinins, 169 

 Antibodies, 169 

 Antilysin, 169, 192 

 Antiprecipitins, 169 

 Antiseptic, definition, 193 

 Antitoxic unit, 285 

 Antitoxins, 169, 175, 187 



for diphtheria, 175, 187, 27r, 284 

 tetanus, 175, 187, 271 

 Antitoxin-toxin mixture, 187 

 Argentamin, 200 

 Argonin, 200 

 Argyrol,. 200. 



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