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INDEX OF SUBJECTS 



Agglutinins, in agglutination raction, 

 chief or immune, 234 

 major, 234 

 minor, 234 

 partial, 234 

 in serum of glanders, 535 

 in staphylococcus immune sera, 331 

 nature of, 231 

 normal, 232 

 partial absorption method in study 



of, 234 

 production of, 232 

 in sera of animals, by injection of 

 bacteria, 233 

 of culture extracts, 233 

 time of, 233 

 reaction of. See Agglutination reaction 

 specificity of, 234 

 structure of (Ehrhch), 238 

 theoretical considerations concerning, 



238 

 "thread-reaction'' in, 231 

 Agglutinogen, 233 

 Aggressins (Bail's theory), 291 

 action of, 293 

 immunization with, 293 

 nature of, 293 

 occurrence of, 293 

 opposition to Bail's theory of, 294 

 Air, bacteria in, 673 



dryness and high winds favorable 



to increase of, 683 

 estimation of numbers of, 684 

 occurrence of, in inhabited places, 



683 

 scarcity of, in places high above 



earth, 684 

 settling of, with rain, snow, etc., 684 

 infectious material carried by, 684 

 Alcohol, as fixative in staining, 110 

 AlcohoUc fermentation, 51 

 by yeasts, 52 

 in milk, 684 

 process of, 51 

 Alcohols as disinfectants, 77 

 Alexin, 198 



action of, in blood serum, 224, 225 

 AlkaU formation by bacteria, 166 



Allantiasis, 477 



Amboceptor and complement, quanti- 

 tative relationship between, 244 

 Amboceptors, filtration of, 244 



multipUcity of, in normal sera, 241 

 Amylase, 48 

 action of, 49 

 occurrence of, 49 

 Amylolytic ferment. See Amylase 

 Anaerobic cultivation of bacteria, 148 

 use of sterile tissue as an aid in, 156 

 See also under Cultivation of bacteria 

 Anaerobic organisms, facultative, 26 

 Gram-positive, in feces, 177 

 infectiousness of, 183 

 non-invasion of blood stream by, 183 

 obligatory, 26 

 respiratory processes of, 26 

 Anaphylactin, 302 

 Anaphylatoxin, 304 

 Anaphylaxis, 295 



autopsy findings in, 299 

 definition of, 297 

 experimentation in, early, 295 

 immunity after, 299 

 in diphtheria antitoxin injections, 296 

 incubation during, 299 

 inherited, 300 



observations in, fundamental, 296 

 by Arthus, 297 

 by Besredka, 298, 299 

 by Besredka and Steinhardt, 299 

 by Doerr, 299 



by Gay and Southard, 299, 300 

 by Hericourt and Richet, 296 

 by Nicohe, 298, 300 

 by Otto, 297, 300 

 by Pick and Yamanouchi, 300 

 by Portier and Richet, 296 

 by Rosenau and Anderson, 297, 



298, 300 

 by Th. Smith, 297 

 by Vaughan and Wheeler, 298 

 by WeiU-Halla and Lemaire, 300 

 passive, 300 

 phenomena of, 295 

 "phenomenon of Arthus" in, 297 

 proteid injections in, 295 



