Index 



797 



Leprosy, lesions, 702 



sanitation, 704 



specific therapy, 704 

 Leptopsylla musculi, 560 

 Leptothrix, 36 

 Leuconostoc, 35 

 Leukocidin, 305 

 Leukocytes, washed, in opsonic value 



of blood, 272 

 Levaditi's method of staining Trepo- 



nema pallidum, 721 

 Leveling apparatus for making plate 



cultures, 205 

 Liborius' tube for anaerobic cultures, 



216 

 Lice, 505 



body, 503 



crab, 504 



head, 503 



r6le in transmission of typhus fever, 



542 



transmission of plague by, 553 

 Ligatures, disinfection of, 172 



sterilization of, 175 

 Light, influences on growth of bacteria, 



52 



Lignieres cutituberculin reaction, 679 

 Liquefaction of gelatin by, 60 

 Listerism, 23 



Litmus, preparation of, 199 

 Litmus-lactose-agar-agar, 606 

 Litmus- milk, 199 

 Lobar pneumonia, 444 

 Lock-jaw, 340, 347 

 Lockwood's method of disinfection of 



hands, 174 



LofHer's alkaline methylene-blue, 151 

 blood-serum mixture, 197 

 method for detection of Spirillum 



cholerae Asiaticse, 577 

 of isolation of Bacillus typhosus, 



611 



of staining Bacillus mallei, 707 

 bacteria, 151 

 flagella, 158 

 Loops, inoculating, 254 

 Luetin, 724 



reaction, Noguchi's, in diagnosis of 



syphilis, 727 



Lumbar puncture, technic in, 388, 389 

 Lumpy jaw, 732 

 Lungs, bacteria in, 72 

 Luzzani's method of staining Negri 



bodies, 369 

 Lysin, 101 

 Lysol, 179 

 Lyssa, 363. See also Hydrophobia 



MACCONKEY'S method of isolation of 



Bacillus typhosus, 612 

 Macrocytase, 107 

 Macrophages, 106 

 Madura-foot, 741 

 Makrogametes, 477 

 Makrogametocyte, 477 



Maladie du coit, 514 



Maladie du sommeil, 506. See also 



Sleeping sickness 

 Malaria, 471 

 fever in, 471 



geographic distribution, 471 

 history of, 471 

 parasites of, 472 



animal inoculation, 486 

 cultivation, 484 



Bass and Johns' method, 484 

 human, 478 



inoculation with, 486 

 paroxysms of, 471 



pathogenesis, 486 

 prophylaxis, 486 

 human beings, 486 

 mosquitoes, 486 



relation of mosquitoes to, 473, 488 

 Malignant edema, 329 



poly adenitis, 543. See also Plague 

 pustule, 359 

 Mallein, 711 

 Mallory's differential stain for 'en- 



tamceba, 647 

 method of staining, 155 

 Malta fever, 467 



bacteriologic diagnosis, 468 

 treatment, 469 

 Manouelian's method of staining 



Treponema pallidum, 722 

 Marino's stain for protozoa, 164 

 Mastigophora, 45 

 McFadyen's method of diagnosis of 



glanders, 709 

 Meat, bacteria in, 246 



extract, preparation of bouillon 



from, 191 

 fresh, preparation of bouillon from, 



190 



Meat-infusion, 190 

 Meat-poisoning, 59, 247 

 Medical contributions, 20 

 Mediterranean fever, 467 

 Megastomum intestinalis, 655 

 Melanoid mycetoma, 741, 744 

 Meningitis, cerebrospinal, 386 

 Meningococcus, 386 

 Mercuric chlorid as disinfectant, 177 

 Merismopedia, 34 

 Merozoits, 477 

 Metabolism, influences on growth of 



bacteria, 57 

 Metazoa, 44 

 Metschnikoff's theory of phagocytosis, 



106 



Meyer's syringe, 222 

 Mice, destruction of, by Bacillus typhi 



murium, 630 

 Micrococci, 34 



Micrococcus catarrhalis, 388, 400 

 cultivation, 401 

 general characteristics, 400 

 morphology, 401 

 pathogenesis, 401 



