INDEX 



Abbott's method of staining spores, 



156 

 Abderhalden reaction, 140 

 dialysis test, 140 

 optical test, 140 

 technic of, 142 

 Abscess of liver in amebic dysentery, 



644 

 Acetic fermentation, 58 

 Achorion, 41 

 schonleinii, 41, 755 

 cultivation, 757 



Krai's method, 757 

 pathogenesis, 758 

 Acid, carbolic, as disinfectant, 178 



tuberculinic, 676 

 Acids as disinfectants, 177 



production of, by bacteria, 60 

 Acquired immunity, 91 



passive, g8 

 Actinodiastase, 107 

 Actinomyces, 38 

 bo vis, 732 

 cultivation, 734 

 distribution, 732 

 general characteristics, 732 

 lesions produced by, 740 

 metabolism, 738 

 morphology, 733 

 pathogenesis, 738 

 temperature, 738 

 virulence, 738 

 grain, 734 

 madurae, 741 

 cultivation, 742 

 cultural characteristics, 746 

 general characteristics, 741 

 lesions produced by, 743 

 morphology, 742 

 pale variety, 742 

 mode of infection with, 739 

 Actinomycosis, 732 

 lesions, 740, 743 



mode of infection, 739 

 Active immunity, 89 

 Acute anterior poliomyelitis, 381 

 avenues of infection, 385 

 cause, 381 

 characteristics, 382 

 histological changes, 382 

 immunization against, 385 

 possible infective agent, 384 

 transmission, 384, 385 

 virus, 382 

 contagious conjunctivitis, 406 



Adami and Chapin's method of isola- 

 tion of Bacillus typhosus, 608 

 Addiment, loi, 118 

 Adhesion cultures, 212 

 Aerobes, $1 

 Aerobic bacteria, 5r 

 Agrogens, 57 



African lethargy, 506. See also Sleep- 

 ing sickness 

 Agar-agar, 193 

 blood, 195 

 culture, 211 

 glycerin, 19s 

 preparation of, r93 

 Agglutination, 122 



test in diagnosis of sporotrichosis, 764 



technic of, 124 

 Widal reaction of, 603 

 Agglutinins, 116, 122 

 Aggluto meter, 603 

 Aggressins, 84, iig 

 Ague-cake, 486 

 Air, bacteria in, 50, 234 



quantitative estimation by Hesse's 

 method, 234 

 by Petri's method, 235 

 by Sedgwick's method, 235 

 bacteriology of, 234 

 Air-examination, Petri's sand filter 

 for, 236 

 Sedgwick and Tucker's expanded 

 tube for, 236 

 Alcoholic fermentation, 57 

 Aleppo boil, 531 

 Alexines, 108, 118, 135 

 Alkali-albuminate, Deycke's, 197 

 Alkalies as disinfectants, 177 



production of, by bacteria, 60 

 Allergia, 103 

 Altmann's syringe, 223 

 Amboceptor, dose, in Wassermann re- 

 action, 286 

 hemolytic, for Wassermann reac- 

 tion, 284 

 unit, in Wassermann reaction, 

 286 

 Ameba, parasitic, reproduction cycle 



of, 63s 

 Amebadiastase, 107 

 Amebic dysentery, 633 



liver abscess in, 644 

 American sleeping sickness, 5x8 

 diagnosis, 522 

 prophylaxis, 523 

 transmission, 521 



783 



