Index 



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Potatoes as culture-medium, 197 

 Pratt and Peabody's method of isola- 

 tion of Bacillus typhosus, 611 

 Precipitate, specific, 100 

 Precipitation, specific, 120 

 Precipitinogen, 122 

 Precipitins, 120, 122 

 Predisposition, 84 

 Prodigiosus powder, 361 

 Production of phosphorescence by 



bacteria, 62 

 Proskauer and Beck's method of cul- 

 tivation of tubercle bacillus, 667 

 Protection of culture-media, 170 



of instruments and glassware, 167 

 Proteins, defensive, 108 

 Protista, 26 

 Protophyta, 26 

 Protozoa, 26, 44 



classification of, 44, 45 



encystraent of, 49 



living, observation of, 161 



movement of, 48 



nucleus of, 48 



reproduction of, 49 



size of, 48 



staining, 162. See also Staining 



structure of, 46 

 Pseudo-diphtheria bacillus, 429. See 



also Bacillus pseudo-diphlherim 

 Pseudodysentery bacillus, 648 

 Pseudo-glanders bacillus, 714 

 Pseudo-influenza bacillus, 466 

 Pseudomonas, 35 

 Pseudo-tetanus bacillus, 351 

 Pseudotuberculosis, 694 

 Ptomains, 58 

 Pulex irritans, SS3, 562 

 Pure cultures, 201, 208 

 Pustule, malignant, 359 

 Putrefaction, 19, 58 

 Putrefactive ferment, 23 

 Pyemia, 79 

 Pyocyanase, 65, 323 

 Pyocyanolysin, 323 



Rabbit septicemia, bacillus of, 564 

 Rabies, 363. See also Hydrophobia 

 Rats, transmission of plague by,. 550, 



SSI-, 55i 



Ravenel's potato-cutter, 198 



Ray-fungus, 732 



Reaction, Calmette's ophthalmo- tuber- 

 culin, 679 

 influences on growth of bacteria, 52 

 Lignifires cutituberculin, 679 

 von Pirquet's dermotuberculin, 679 

 Wassermann, 1^9 

 Widal, 123 



Receptors, 112, 125 



Refined tuberculin, 677 



Regressive schizogony, 478 



Reichel filter, 174 



Reichel and Engle's method of stain- 

 ing Negri bodies, 369 



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Relapsing fever, 494 



bacteriologic diagnosis, Joi 

 course, 500 



immunity against, 501 

 lesions, 501 



transmitted by ticks, 499 

 vectors of, 501 

 Relative immunity, 89 

 Rdmy's method of cultivation of 



Bacillus typhosus, 606 

 Reproduction of bacteria, 32 



of protozoa, 49 

 Respiratory apparatus, infection 

 through, 74 

 tract, infection with tubercle bacillus 

 through, 669 

 Retention theory of immunity, 103 

 Rhinoscleroma, 715 

 Rhipicephalus decoloratus, 494 

 Rhizopoda, 45 

 Rice-water discharges in Asiatic 



cholera, 576 

 Ringworm, 752 



Robinson's method of disinfection, 182 

 Romanowsky's method of staining 



protozoa, 163 

 Room, disinfection of, 182 

 Ross' method of staining protozoa, 166 

 Rossi's method of staining flagella, 160 

 Rost's method of cultivation of Bacil- 

 lus leprae, 699 

 Rothberger's method of cultivation of 



Bacillus tjrphosus, 607 

 Rotz, 706 



Roux's bacteriologic syringe, 222 

 Roux and Nocard's method of culti- 

 vating tubercle bacillus, 665 

 Rubber stoppers, sterilization of, 169 



Saccharomyces cerevisise, 39 

 hominis, 39, 747 



Saccharomycosis hominis, 747 



Sacs, collodion, preparation of, 229 



Salamonsen's method of making 

 anaerobic cultures, 220 



Salkowski's test for indol, 62 



Salts as disinfectants, 177 



Sand filter, Petri's, for air-examina- 

 tion, 236 



Sanitation in Asiatic cholera, 580 

 in plague, 556 

 in pneumonia, 456 



Sapremia, 79 



Saprogens, 57 



Saprophytic bacteria, 66 



Sarcina, 34 



Sarcopsylla penetrans, 561 



Scarlatina, streptococcus in blood in, 



313 

 Schaumorgane, 338 

 Schering's method of embedding, 150 

 Schick's reaction in diphtheria, 428 

 Schizogony, regressive, 478 

 Schizonts, 47s 

 Schizotrypanum cruzi, 5x8 



