INDEX 



747 



Petroff's method for tuberculous 



sputum, 298 

 Petmsohky's litmus whey, 51 

 Pettenkofer on cholera, 469 

 Pfeffer, 21 

 Pfeiffer od anti-serum, 572 



cholera, 470 



influenza, 479 

 Pfeiffe.r's media, 44 



phenomenon, 471, 571, 572 

 Phagocytes, 181 

 Phagocytosis theorv of Metchnikoff, 



588 

 Pbenol-phthalein as indicator, 34 

 Phenomenon of Bordet, 572 



Griiher and Durham, 678 



PI'eiffer, 470, 572 

 Phlebotomus fever, 692 

 Phycomycetes, 530 

 Picric acid media, 51 

 Pigments, bacterial, 11 

 Pipettes, 115, 116, 122 

 Piroplasmata as causes of disease, 



678 

 Piroplasmosis, 677 

 Pitfield's flagella stain, 108 

 Plague, bacillus of, 487 et seq. 



Haffkine's inoculation against, 

 498 

 Plague, immunity against, 498 



infection in, 494 



involution forms, 488 



part played by rat fleas in the 

 spread of, 494 



preventive inoculation against, 

 498 



serum diagnosis, 499 



stalactite growths of, 490 



varieties of, 492 

 Plasmolysis, 10 

 Plate Cultures, 59 



gelatin, 58 

 Platinum needles, 56 

 Pncumobacillus (Friedlander's), 



226, 244 

 Pneumococcus (Fraenkel's), 226, 



227, and 233 et seq. 

 action of soaps on, 242 

 capsulation of, 230 

 culture methods, 44 

 differentiation of strains, 237 

 fermentation reactions of, 230 

 immunity against, 240 



in endocarditis, 216 



Pneumococcus (Fraenkel's), lesions 

 caused by, 232 



mucosus, 231 



relation to streptococci, 231 



toxins of, 239 

 Pneumonia, bacteria in, 226 



gangrenous, 482 



in influenza, 481 



methods of examination of, 243 



prophylactic vaccination in, 242 



septic, 226 



treatment with antisera, 238 



vaccine treatment of, 242 



varieties of, 225 

 Polar granules, 9 

 Poliomyelitis, 684 



virus of, 685 

 Polysaccharides, 78 

 Positive phase in immunisation, 



296 

 Potassium permanganate as anti- 

 septic, 172 

 Potatoes as culture material, 47 

 Poynton and Payne on acute rheu- 

 matism, 221 

 Precipitinogen, 582 

 Precipitins, 581 



bacterial, 581 



serum, 582 

 Precipitoid, 583 

 Preparations, impression, 134 

 Protective inoculation, 557 et seq. 

 Proteosoma, 633 

 Proteus bacteria, 207 

 Protozoa described in hydrophobia, 



617 

 Protozoa described in smallpox, 608 

 Protozoon malarise, 624 

 Prowazek on smallpox, 610 

 Pseudo-diphtheria bacillus, 415 



-tuberculosis strep^othricea, 330 

 Psittacosis bacillus, 381 

 Ptomaine poisoning, 380 

 Ptomaines, 186 

 Puerperal septicaemia, 212 

 Pus, examination of, 92, 223 

 Pustule, malignant, 344 

 Pyasmia, 212 et seq. 



nature of, 198 

 Pyogenic cocci, culture of, 130 

 Pyrogallate of potassium for anae- 

 robic cultures, 62 



(Quartan fever, 634 



