INDEX OF SUBJECTS 



757 



Relapsing fever spirochaete, 605 

 cultivation of, 606 

 morphology and staining of, 605 

 pathogenicity of, 608 

 in animals, 608 

 in man, 608 



symptoms of, 608 

 transmission of, 610 

 varieties of, 609 

 Reproduction of bacteria, 17 

 Resistance, definition of, 189 

 Rhinoscleroma, bacillus of, 451 

 Ricin, experimentation with, 204 

 Ringworm, 642 

 Root tubercles, 55 

 microorganism of nitrogen fixation in, 

 55 

 Roux's method of anaerobic cultivation 

 of bacteria, 149 



Sacchahomtcetes. See Yeasts and 



Yeast cells 

 Salts in nutrition of bacteria, 29 

 Saprophytes, bacterial, 29, 30 



definition of, 182 

 Sarcina, 37 

 Sarcophysematos bovis. See Bacillus of 



symptomatic anthrax 

 Scarlatina. See Scarlet fever 

 Scarlet fever, 676 



favorable influence of streptococcus 

 antisera in, 676 



streptococci present in, 676 



traced to milk, 704 

 Schaudinn and Hoffmann, discovery of 



Spirochseta pallida by, 594 

 Schizomycetes, 37 

 Schweineseuche, 553 

 Scorpion poison, antitoxin for, 199 

 "Sensibilisin," 302 

 "Sensibilisinogen," 302 

 Septicemia, definition of, 184 



diagnosis of, by isolation of bacteria 

 from the blood, 178 



due to colon-bacillus infection, 394 



hemorrhagic. See Hemorrhagic sep- 

 ticemia 

 Serum media, 131 



Serum media, Loeffler's, 131 

 Serum reactions, technique of, 249. 

 See also under individual tests 

 agglutination tests in, 250 

 antigen determined in, by comple- 

 ment fixation, 271 

 for tjTjhoid fever, 271 



obtaining of material for, 271 

 test in, 272 

 bactericidal and bacteriolytic tests 



in, 255 

 complement fixation in, for deter- 

 mination of antibodies, 261 

 for determination of antigen, 271 

 for proteid differentiation, 273 

 hemolytic tests in, 259 

 precipitin tests in, 252 

 proteid differentiation by comple- 

 ment fixation in, 273 

 substances necessary for, 273 

 test in, 274 

 Wassermann test in, 262 

 modifications of , 268 

 "Serum sickness," 296 

 Serum water media for fermentation 



tests, 132 

 Shiga, discovery of dysentery bacUlus by, 



435 

 Shiga's bacillus, 435 



cultural characteristics of, 436 

 morphology of, 435 

 Side-chain theory of toxin-antitoxin 

 reaction, 212 

 chemical action in, 213 

 elements of molecules in, 213 

 atom group, 213 

 side chains or receptors, 213 

 over-production of receptors in, 214 

 Side chains, action of, in Ehrlich's theory 



of lytic process in blood serum, 226 

 Slanting of culture media, 123 

 "Slimy" milk, bacteria causing, 703 

 Smallpox, 657 



etiological factor of, 657 

 inmiunization in, 658 

 by vaccination, 659, 663 

 Jenner's discovery of, 659 

 technique of, 663 



