SUPPLEMENT 617 



SUPPLEMENT : 



CLINICAL AND THERAPEUTICAL NOTES. 



PROTOZOA. 



INTRODUCTION. 



THE aim of the present volume is to give an account of the animal 

 parasites of man, the number of which is very large. The Protozoa 

 that infest man are very important, and the literature relating to them 

 and to the treatment of the diseases that they produce is very exten- 

 sive. All that can be done in this Appendix is to give a very brief 

 outline of some of the more recent and approved methods of treat- 

 ment, for further details of which the reader should refer to standard 

 medical works, among which the following are noteworthy : 



Allbutt and Rolleston (1907): "System of Medicine," vol. ii, 

 part 2, " Tropical Diseases and Animal Parasites," London. 



Castellani and Chalmers (1913) : "Manual of Tropical Medicine" 

 (second edition), London. 



Laveran and Mesnil (1912) : " Trypanosomes et Trypanosomiases '* 

 (second edition), Paris. 



Manson (1914) : "Tropical Diseases" (fifth edition), London. 



Mense (1905) : " Handbuch der Tropenkrankheiten," Leipzig. 



Ross (1911) : " The Prevention of Malaria," London. 



Scheube (1910) : " Die Krankheiten der Warmen Lander," Jena. 



References to the treatments tried in many parasitic diseases can 

 be found in the Sleeping Sickness Bulletin and Kala-azar Bulletin, both 

 now superseded and greatly extended in scope in the Tropical Diseases, 

 Bulletin, published by the Tropical Diseases Bureau, Imperial Institute, 

 London, S.VV. 



The following diseases, due to protozoa and allied forms, are. 

 discussed : 



I. Amoebic Dysentery. 



II. 'Trypanosomiases. 



III. Flagellate Diarrhoea and Dysentery. 



IV. Leishmaniases Kala-azar and Oriental Sore. 



V. Spirochaetoses Relapsing Fevers, Yaws, Syphilis and 



Bronchial. 



VI. Malaria. 



VII. Balantidian or Ciliate Dysentery. 



