INDEX OF SUBJECTS 



Abbott's method of staining spores, 



160 

 Abderhalden reaction, 143 

 dialysis test, 144 

 dialyzing shells for, 144 

 for pregnancy, 145 

 optical test, 144 

 Abscess of liver in amebic dysentery, 

 686 '' 



Accidental infection, 97 

 Acetic acid fermentation, 60 

 Achorion, 42 

 schonleinii, 801 

 cultivation, 803 



Krai's method, 803 

 pathogenesis, 804 

 varieties, 804 

 Acids as disinfectants, 1 79 



production of, by bacteria, 63 

 Acquired activity, active, 97 

 immunity, 97 

 passive, ro4 

 Actinodiastase, 113 

 Actinomyces, 40 

 bovis, 77S 

 cultivation, 778 



_ Wright's method, 778 

 distribution, 777 

 lesions from, 784 

 metabolism, 782 

 morphology, 777 

 pathogenesis, 782 

 staining, 782 

 temperature, 782 

 grain, 778 

 madurse, 787 

 cultivation, 788 

 general characteristics, 787 

 lesions from, 790 

 morphology, 788 

 staining, 788 

 Actinomycosis, 775 

 Bostrom's organism in, 776 

 history, 776 

 lesions, 784 



mode of infection in, 783 

 Active immunity, 95 

 Adami and Chapin's method of iso- 

 lating Bacillus typhosus, 648 

 Addiment, 107, 122 

 Adhesion cultures, 214 

 Aerobes, 54 

 Aerogens, 60 

 African lethargy. See Sleeping sick- 



831 



Agar-agar as culture medium, 195 

 blood, as culture medium, 196 

 glycerin, as culture medium, 196 

 Agglutination, 125 



test for sporotrichosis, 810 

 technic, 128 



Widal's, in typhoid fever, 644 

 Agglutinins, 120, 126 

 Aggressins, 90, 123 

 Ague-cake, 512 

 Air, bacteria in, 239 



quantitative estimation, Hesse's 

 method, 239 

 Petri's method, 240 

 Sedgwick's method, 240 

 bacteriology of, 239 

 Air-examination, Petri's sand filter for, 

 241 

 Sedgwick's and Tucker's expanded 

 tube for, 241 

 Alcoholic fermentation, 60 

 Aleppo boil, 569 

 Alexins, 114, 122, 139 

 Algid malaria, 510 

 Alkali-albuminate, Deycke's, .199 

 Alkalies as disinfectants, 179 



production of, by bacteria, 63 

 Alkaline blood-serum, 199 

 Allantiasis, 254 

 AUergia, 109 



Altmann syringes, bacteriologic, 228 

 Amboceptor dose in Wassermann reac- 

 tion, 295 

 hemolytic, for Wassermann reaction, 



292 

 unit in Wassermann reaction, 294 

 Amboceptors, 120, 121 

 Amebadiastase, 113 

 Amebae, parasitic, reproductive cycle, 



67s 



suppuration and, 337 

 Amebic dysentery, 672, 673 

 American trypanosomiasis, 556. See 



also Sleeping sickness, American. 

 Amoeba coli, 673 

 rhizopodia, 673 



dysenteriae, 673 



kartulisi, 338 



mortinatahum, 338 

 Anaerobes, 54 



facultative, 54 



optional, 54 

 Anaerobic bacilli of infected gun-shot 

 wounds, 352 



bacteria, cultivation of, 2r7 



