Index of Subjects 



857 



Vaccination, accidents, loi 



efficient, loo 



in anthrax, 372 



inefficient, 100 



Jennerian, 99 



Pasteurian, loi 



prophylactic, in typhoid fever, 641 

 Vaccines, 99 



autogenous^ 273 



bacterio-, 271 



dosage, 276 



Hafflsine's, in Asiatic cholera, 619 



method of making, 273 



sensitization, 276 



stock, 273 



streptococcus, 326 

 Vaccinia, loi 

 Vacuoles, contractile, 49 

 Vagina, bacteria in, 75 

 Van Ermengem's method of staining 



flageUa, 162 

 Vegetables, green, Bacillus typhosus 



in, 63s 

 Vibrio, 36 



choleras asiaticse, 608 



of Finkler and Prior, 621 



proteus, 621 

 Vibrion septique, 339 

 Vibrionensepticaemia, 626 

 Vincent's angina, 451 

 Virulence, 85 



decrease, 86 



increase, 86 

 by addition of animal fluids to 



culture-media, 87 

 by passage through animals, 86 

 by use of collodion sacs, 87 



variation in, 86 

 Virus of acute anterior poliomyelitis, 

 394 



street, in hydrophobia, 384 

 Viruses, filterable, 27 



invisible, 27 

 von Pirquet's cutaneous tuberculin 



reaction, 722 



Wassermann method of cultivating 

 Micrococcus gonorrhcese, 412 

 reaction, 287 

 amboceptor dose in, 295 



unit in, 294 

 antigen in, 287 

 blood-corpuscles for, 291 

 complement for, 290 

 fixation test, 300 

 hemolytic amboceptor for, 292 



system in, 294 

 nature, 303 



Noguchi's reaction, 303 

 reagents employed, 287 

 serum to be tested in, 290 

 technic for, 287, 288 

 theoretic basis, 288 

 titration of guinea-pig serum for, 

 293 



Wassermann reaction, titration of 

 hemolytic serum for, 293 

 of sheep corpuscles for, 293 

 validity of, 302 

 Water, bacteria in, 242 

 determination of purity, 244 

 completed test, 245 

 partially confirmed test, 245 

 presumptive test, 244 

 of total number of bacteria in 

 given sample, 242 

 drinking. Bacillus coli communis in, 



663 

 potability of, 245 

 Weil's disease, 532 



bacteriological disease, 537 

 lesions, S3 7 

 prophylaxis, 539 

 sources of infection in, 538 

 stages, 535 

 treatment, 540 

 Welch's gas bacillus, 342 

 method of staining Diplococcus 

 pneumoniae, 465 

 Wertheim's method of cultivating 



Micrococcus gonorrhoea, 411 

 West's apparatus for swabbing naso- 

 pharynx, 406 

 method of discovering cerebro-spinal 

 meningitis carriers, 406 

 Whey, Petruschky's, as culture-me- 

 dium, 201 

 Whooping-cough, bacillus of, 460. 



See also Bacillus pertussis. 

 Widal reaction, 126 



in typhoid fever, 644 

 Wildseuche, bacillus of, 606 

 Williams and Lowden's method of 

 staining Neurorrhyctes hydropho- 

 biae, 380 

 Williams' method of cultivating ame- 



bae, 677 

 Wiston's method of making syphilitic 



antigen, 288 

 Wolfhugel's apparatus for counting 



colonies of bacteria on plates, 242 

 Wooden apparatus, sterilization of, 172 



tongue, 77S 

 Wool-sorters' disease, 370 

 Wounds, disinfection of, 178 

 infection with tubercle bacillus 

 through, 713 

 Wright's blood-stain for protozoa, 166 

 method of cultivating actinomyces 

 bovis, 778 

 of making anaerobic cultures, 222 

 Wurtz and Kashida's method of cul- 

 tivating BacUlus typhosus, 646 



X-RAYS, influences of, on growth of 



bacteria, 36 

 Xenopsylla cheopis," 591, S93, 602 



Yaws, 772. See also Frambesia trop- 

 ica. 

 Yeasts, 40 



